There was a time when there was no bitcoin+no KYC option for translations through #damus. I rolled out nostr:npub109pkdu0k0dau2cz063lzrgn7dl9l7lk8u7njcm2v8pk4pl2a9uzqf6u4w5 to fix that problem and as time has gone on not too many folks are using it.
I want to help the #nostr ecosystem so I’d like some feedback on a new direction. The biggest question is whether you would consider using the service if we made this change.
I’d like to reach a bigger audience so if you repost this I’ll zap you 1k sats.
New direction:
- API keys with no balance will now show any translations that our service has already translated from other people. We have to cache translations anyway because clients send the same note multiple times as you scroll.
- price per character lowers to 0.07 sats per character instead of 0.1
Tl;dr: anyone will get already translated notes for free. If you pay for the service, which is now cheaper, you get translations on notes that haven’t been translated and in effect donate translations to other folks.
There’s pretty much no scenario we make any money with this service, (which is okay because we believe in #grownostr) and we can lower our price because of cheaper/dynamic hosting with nostr:npub1n0delesspp5qyp9sd6d4fql9g3s96k7g4yyvfmpdncpp542wvxzqksp427 thanks to nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8
I found translations from (free) LibreTranslate are pretty bad. I thought about using DeepL but it’s KYC only. I would likely pay for a no-KYC DeepL but not sure if that’s possible.
For now I’ve been translating manually with the iOS builtin translator which is actually pretty good. Possible to integrate it nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s ?
Did you end up trying nostr:npub109pkdu0k0dau2cz063lzrgn7dl9l7lk8u7njcm2v8pk4pl2a9uzqf6u4w5 ? If it was subscription based would that be more relevant to you than pay-as-you-go?
Not yet. Other than maybe rate limiting, are there any additional advantages over the public free instances? Faster, better trained models, anything like that?
It uses AWS translate now, which seems really good for some languages (spanish, chinese, french) and okay for others (japanese). Adding additional models is on the to-do list.
