Taka (JotMe.io)
@taka_shirasu
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Founder of @JotMe_io : Building a multilingual AI to break language barriers 🦅 Indiehacker/Engineer/PM 🇯🇵x🇹🇼 grew up in 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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A quest to break the language barriers continues 😌
Product demo for 👀
We translate, transcribe, and summarize any meetings out there on Google Meet for now!
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@bunburyoudouuk
If you can cook, England is a great country to eat in. All the ingredients from other European countries are very affordable in the supermarket. Also there is an oven in almost every kitchen. Asia don’t have that 🙄
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This
@ycombinator
webinar is sooooooo valuable. I can't believe it's free 🤯
@startupschool
@aaron_epstein
@snowmaker
@catheryn_li
#startup
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@mrjeffu
I think this is coming from cultural differences. In my experience, the Japanese are polite to strangers but not kind. Taiwanese tend to think about how they can help others even if they are strangers to them
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@dvassallo
It's not that we don't have self-respect. When we are so focused on something we want to work on in life, anything else will fade away and become a second priority
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110 ambitious men and women showed up for
@IndieBeers
Tokyo last week 🤯 Loved to see many people building things here in Tokyo! Let’s keep this momentum going 🫶🏼
Special thanks to
@RevenueCat
for sponsoring the event 🙏🏼
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Culture shock coming back to Tokyo from Bali
- Sidewalk is flat
- So clean
- No one honks at me
This is luxury
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🚀 Launching today! 🇯🇵➡️🌐
After facing the language barriers in Tokyo's tech scene firsthand, it's clear that communication is key to innovation. aims to dissolve these barriers, uniting talented programmers with the Japanese
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🇯🇵Tokyo is where I grew up as a baby
🇺🇸LA is where I grew up as a boy
🇬🇧London is where I grew up as a teen
@IndieBeers
is where I grew up as a startup founder
Where did you grow up?
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I wrote this on my table when I was in high school when the entire school including all the teachers were harassing me by calling me names and telling me I was a useless human being and I didn't have a future just because I was a troubled kid and my grade was lowest compared to
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@SturdyBusiness
@Bob_Mayo
@JDHDlive
@engineers_feed
Helium balloons rise because it's lighter than air. On the other hand, basketball lathers are already heavy so no matter what you put inside, it's heavier than air. Thus, weight doesn't matter here as you said in the beginning.
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My “startup coach” told me to be patient a little bit. So I became a patient for a few days
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Just bought a flight ticket to London from Tokyo. 50% (£500) of the reason is to make it to
@RamenClubHQ
coworking sessions and
@IndieBeers
. And yes, those two events have that much value
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@DeepinJapanPod
Force creates resistance. Resistance creates force. Japanese don't understand this well
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I applied to YC for 4 times. 0 interview invitations.
Anyway, we started
@JotMe_io
because there were big problems in this world we saw that we could solve. -$500,000 and not having an extra like-minded community in my life hurts but back to talking to customers and shipping
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Omg it was a hugeeee success. We gathered over 100 people: indiehackers, start-up founders, indiedevs, developers, product managers, designers, business owners, and youtubers in Tokyo at
@IndieBeers
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So many people asked me how
@JotMe_io
got the first paid user so I wrote a post.
TL;DR: I launched it on the Chrome Web Store and persistently sent personalized emails to the active users one by one with a stripe payment link.
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Make a product that a few people love than making a product that many people kinda like
@bchesky
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Japan is crazyyyy. On my way to commute home at 10 pm and I got…
Sushi + Miso Soup = $5
Ramen = $2.8
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Let’s see
You either die a founder or live long enough to see yourself become a VC
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Tokyo Indiebeers will have a real Ramen sesh after beers 🍻🍜
If you reaaally want to see how profitable this ramen can get come to this tonight:
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@Spshulem
I've been here for a year but somehow you find cooler stuff in a few days than what I found so far 🥲
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Tokyo tech bros snowboarding trip! Taking a break from work and talking about how they manage their database at their companies was the highlight of the trip!
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After me ending the existence of a language barrier with at multilingual workplaces like...
This video was easy to make🧵
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It's 2:30 am in Tokyo. That means it's time to ship 🧑🏻💻
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🌏 Psyched to launch JotMe 3.0.0! 🌎
🧑🔧 What's New?
🛠️ Most of the bugs squashed, and the service is stable.
🧭 Enhanced user navigation for intuitive use.
📝 Meeting summaries to grasp Japanese meetings as fast and easily as possible.
🚀 Why the major update?
It has been an
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We now have employees from Toyota, Netflix, Fujifilm, Hitachi, TableCheck, Mercai and so many more are using our product every single day 🙏🏼
This was at Tokyo IT Week where all the B2B tech companies in Japan gathered 🇯🇵
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During COVID, I sold electronic delivery boxes in London to total strangers for Amazon package delivery. Here's how I did it:
1. Door-to-door sales with flyers in hand.
2. Ordered parts from Amazon after making a sale.
3. Built each box by hand in a few hours.
4. Delivered and
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I saw their mouth moving but I focused on what I loved. This just got started. Back to serving my customers 🫡
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Tripled my traffic to my website in 3 days. The number of user acquisitions doubled.
Have faith. God will do.
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It's 9 pm in Tokyo. I'm singing off 🫡 Y'all have a good day today
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@unpratham
This was me in high school every single day. Never found a place to fit in so I had to create one by myself
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@PsycheWizard
All of these are not authentic. You know what Japanese people actually do to stop overthinking? “Drinking”
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I'm going to this today and I'm going to start this in Tokyo next month if not then January. We need to start gathering smart and ambitious people in Tokyo together 🇯🇵
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When I talk about in the ex-pats tech community in Tokyo, people either tell me “Oh my colleagues told me about it” or “I found it on top of the Google search”
Is it product market fit? 🤔
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Being average is a culture in Japan. I’m here to change that. Starting with
@IndieBeers
Tokyo to bring that 2% of ambitious and talented people together. Who’s with me? My DM is open 24/7. Let’s talk
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Thank you for coming!
Tokyo indie hacker Meetup: 100+ participants, tons of inspiring stories, scene here is absolutely THRIVING
Even met some
@tailscan
customers spontaneously 🤯
Shoutout to
@thebentaytay
@taka_shirasu
@YusukeNishijima
@homometaversus
for inviting, hosting and chats 🙌🏼
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We also do a lil meetup hosting
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Degital nomad visa in Japan for 6 months. Who's coming now??
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I now feel like we finally made it to the start line to run properly in the race. Can't thank you enough for all the inspiration and tips that you post here on X. You guys are awesome 🫶🏼 Please can we keep this going? ✊🏼
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We got the first paid users last week after we slightly pivoted 🥳
Mad lit on God no God no Cap. Let's gooo
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27 people are coming to
@IndieBeers
Tokyo so far! What are you waiting for? Have you booked the flight to Tokyo yettt?
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Teaching Japanese kids about George Washington was literally my passion when I was a little.
What it can be, unburden by what it has been
#FourthOfJuly
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My family from Taiwan came to visit me today. I used JotMe to translate English to Chinese to justify what I am working on instead of having a stable $200k/y Product Manager job. It seemed like they understood it after 2h of conversation...
Now they will ask me what's my MRR
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First time in a few months I came back home before 10 pm 🥳
I feel great because I get to think about what I need and want to do in my life other than work. Would recommend finishing work early 👍🏼
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The JotMe Tool Home Page shipped! So far there are 10 functionalities!
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I met up with my college friend today.
He was the best engineer I've ever seen in London. Every hackathon he used to go to, he came back with prizes. Unfortunately, when it came to hiring he had no luck because his English wasn't that good.
This is partially why we build
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Every time I see a Gaijin post on Twitter by a Japanese, it triggers me. Why?
I'm half Taiwanese and racist Japanese kids growing up used to tell me I'm Chinese so I eat monkey's brain or I pee on the trash can in public. Please stop the stereotype.
It's not gaijin = can't
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Raising MRR is awesome, and so is making the person who raised you happy. Celebrating my grandma’s birthday today! 🎉
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First MRR 🥳 One of our active organic users turned into a paid subscriber today 🥹
It sounds sweet and all but actually
@JotMe_io
has pivoted a few times before:
1. Calndelry but for private classes ($600MRR)
2. Blogging tool (We couldn’t even get active users)
3. Manual
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Everyone starts somewhere. This is what x100 growth looks like
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I learned from
@tim_cook
that you get users by being the first and you get paid users by being the best.
What's your focus now? Are you making a new product or the best product?
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@bunburyoudouuk
What if you are Japanese but don't look like or act like Japanese? Can I go in?
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