Product process

PopTranslate

This is a multi stages story.

1) Lost my free $300 in Google Account

In order to join the YouTube Premium family account, I need to change my location from Canada to America. So, I delete my previous payment profile, which is used for Google Translation API but I didn’t realize that at that time. I create a new payment where I set the address in America and linked this payment with Google Translation API in order to continue use it.

After two days, I realized I lost the free $300 for new account from Google and must pay billing by myself, it cost about $25 everyday and last two days, of course it’s too expensive. This is also the first time I realized it’s so expensive for Translation server.

I link my card with another Google account and use the free $300 to creat a new api_key and use it in PopTranslte new version, I published new version immediately.

This is almost the end of stage 1 and must pay about $50 in the end of the month.

2) Tranfer Translation from Google API to self hosted service.

After I pubslished PopTranslate two week, the data is already stable, it shows as below:

active users: 18

change: $27.12

requests: 11k

average requests: 611

average characters per requests: 61

average QPS: 0.12

Google translation API price: $20/500k characters

of course it’s too expensive even I make the extension paid for user. so, I must tranfer it to self hosted service.

LibreTranslate is the best option I have found, I’m trying to hosted this on Google VM, but it always not a ideal option because VM cost $30 per month, I can use it at least 3 months because $300 from Google is valid in 90 days. I will find a better solution after that.

self-hosted is complex, I’m still trying.

YouTube

Recording and Upload two videos in this week, leetcode problem has more views than atcoder resulting from keywords search.

Daily

9.23: Analysis security project and submit more resume
9.24: Record one video and investigate countries
9.25: Deal with Google billing problems and submit more applications
9.26: Back home
9.27: finish google form API for security project and rest
9.28: Try LibreTranslate
9.29: rest

Personal life

Reading

None

Exercise

two times

Thought

1) Translation service is so expensive, maybe I can host one.

2) Plan B is more complex, maybe I should change the plan.

This week

Next week

Injunction stage two
Monitor of PopTranslate
Rest