On 2026-04-14 19:00:10, Joshua Wiley wrote:
The purpose of this memo is to provide brief feedback about the Pentecost Project.
We need to think about this as a product. We need to recognize that the market for the product is the set of customers or subscribers—the userbase—who may potentially use the product.
Making an effective product requires knowledge of real consumers or users, and, if at all possible, being a direct consumer or user oneself. Otherwise, it is very easy to build something that is not actually needed or valued by the market or userbase.
I suggest that generic longform translation of texts into many, many languages is not very important right now, at this point in world history. I suggest that few or none of the people in our meeting today actually want or need to use the project as users themselves. I looked around the room and realized that I was the only person there who has actually translated pages or studied languages. Let’s be clear. All the participants in the meeting seem to see the product as faci