This is huge because you identified a market need of a no-KYC translation service, learned things that you previously didn’t know along the way, and managed to launch first to the market. Well done!
Launching https://nokyctranslate.com wasn’t the first project I planned on building for / with Nostr. I only did it because many people, including myself, voiced the desire for easy, hosted translations that accepted BTC/lightning. I’m glad I did though because I’ve learned a lot and it’s going to make my next project easier to launch. Some things I’ve learned:
- kubernetes for auto scaling to handle high demand
- chatgpt can help you debug kubernetes config files
- why number and time limit of database connections matter (too many and things stop working ha)
- chat GPT is helpful for formatting html
- bootstrap is easy and looks pretty
- easiest library in python for making Nostr bots is https://github.com/davestgermain/nostr_bot and https://github.com/davestgermain/aionostr thanks @monk_cactus
- how to get liquidity to a lightning node
- how to create payments programmatically with btcpayserver
- wrote my first ever swift code getting nokyctranslate.com into damus drop down (shoutout to #[0] for making the code nice and easy to follow, and for guidance)
I was nervous about launching my first app and my interactions with devs and others so far has been incredibly encouraging. If you’re hesitant to launch something, I’d encourage you to just go for it!
Discussion
What is noKYCtranslate? What exactly does it do? Translations? If so, how is it noKYC vs other translation services like google translate etc?
It’s an alternative to translation services like DeepL and LibreTranslate.
Basically any good quality hosted translation service today requires KYC by a credit card, etc or you can use free versions of LibreTranslate but the general consensus is that they aren’t as good.
As far as I know, nokyctranslate is the first high quality translation service that only asks for bitcoin (you don’t even have to give your npub).
There’s also hosted alternatives for people that don’t mind setting that up. There’s offline google ml kit, you can host your own LibreTranslate service, etc.
NoKYCTranslate.com allows you to pay for access to its machine translation services via Bitcoin / Lightning. Other services, like Google Translate, require your credit card and/or some personally identifying information about you.
What about https://huggingface.co/chat/ ? Seemed to work well prompting it to translate, can you download the model and do it locally somehow? Open source chat gpt. 
You could totally wrap a LibreTranslate API around huggingface models , there’s just a question of hosting costs. It’s probably going to be cheaper to pay for a service than host yourself, because the best models, like NLLB for example are going to be super expensive, hundreds of USD or more per month, depending on which model size you build. I’m hoping to add more models like that to nokyctranslate, but hosting costs mean we have to wait until we reach a certain number of users.
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