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How would you like to write fluently in several languages of the world at the same time?
Great idea? A beta version has already been launched.
It's called Fluently. The promise?
It will translate text from your native language into multiple other languages
It's the No.1 product of the month on ProductHunt
The site where entrepreneurs get their first experience of the real market
And what ideas gain traction.
A hotbed of ideas in an early, difficult rollout phase.
When it has moved from a thought in the mind to pushing the boulder uphill.
The least rewarding part of the entrepreneur's journey.
The point at which reality grinds into rosy assumptions about finding traction in the market.
People hear about a new product and dismissively say "I thought of that 10 years ago"
The strength is not in the idea but in the execution
Having an idea doesn't mean you own it. Or that you can profit from it.
I tried out Fluently. It's very much work in progress right now.
Check back in December. Or sometime next year. It may still be an idea.
Or the next big thing. And that is the fascinating part.
What if Elon Musk asked you to buy Bitcoin?
Or Bill Gates. And Barack Obama. And Apple. All these accounts at Twitter were hacked.
In one of the most audacious hacking episodes in July 2020, some of the most prominent Twitter accounts were taken over to promote Bitcoin.
Each one of them invited contributions to an account. In return, people were promised that they could double their money in the next 30 minutes.
It was all a scam of course.
But if you saw a tweet from Elon Musk telling you that he would double your money, wouldn't you fall for it?
Just goes to show you how creatively hackers think.
And the scale at which they were able to pull it off
They apparently targeted some of the most highly regarded accounts on Twitter. The one with a 'Blue tick'
And then started sending out these messages
Twitter had to temporarily disable the accounts while they investigated how it happened.
It's one thing to have celebrities to pitch your product.
But having all of them collectively make a pitch at a global scale is unimaginable.
In a few months, the picture will become a lot clearer
Because the hackers were able to bypass passwords altogether.
And make celebrities say exactly what they wanted
Here’s what happened in July
Cultivate curiosity. Interest will follow.
Let's unravel something.
Why do clocks have two hands?
How did that get to become the norm? For that, you'll have to go back to the 1500s
Because if you were a minute off, you'd be lost at sea.
Fast forward five hundred years and some children today can't tell time by looking at a clock.
So has the concept of time changed?
Why do we say that time passes, even though the only way we know it passes is by looking at the clock?
You won't find the answer online.
What you get are pieces on why time flies or crawls.
It is a simple thing, right?
But a few hundred years ago, it didn't exist. Not the way we know it today.
Local churches rang bells to signify occasions but that was it. Nobody wore wristwatches or got late for meetings
Standard time as we know it came into being only in 1880.
That's when railroads needed to run at a synchronised time, so that people would know when trains would arrive.
The philosophical concept of today had mundane origins.
Imagine 'Time and Tide wait for no man'. Or that it is a great healer.
If you're curious, check out the article
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