Kevin Wong's startup blog disappears – again?
Thanks to a new post by Russian Cousin
...I discovered that Kevin's semi-secret blog is once again missing. The redirect link from StartupSlowly.com now goes to Kevin's Medium posts, and sadly that is very out of date. The latest post there is dated Dec 15 2021, so almost 3 years ago now. 🙄😕
I think a lot of our readers here are probably NOT familiar with Kevin's Mandarin language only startupslowly blog project.
For them, here is a brief introduction:
- the startupslowly blog authored by Kevin Wong, Slowly's founder and ceo, was an obscure, Chinese (Mandarin) language only with a few posts over its lifetime.
- it seemed to be dedicated to his friends in the Chinese Tech scene, explaining his views of Slowly and how it should develop, etc.
- this was taken offline at a certain point in time, although we DO have a mirror copy of it on Archive.org – in original language only.
- Since I found the articles sometimes gave us insight on the Slowly project, it's development and history, I decided to create an English language version of the posts – using machine translations to English, lightly manually edited for style and clarity.
Translation Notes and rationale:
These translation were prepared by Yann2, a user, fan and supporter of the SLOWLY project. And it is in no way authorized or condoned by the original author. Any translation errors contained herein are my own, and subject to revisions – please send comments if necessary. 🙂
This translator's view is that the inner workings of Kevin's mind are of interest to the passionate fans of the app he has created from scratch. Hence, we bring here an English language version which can be more widely read. Thank you, Kevin!
All 7 original posts, now in English
....are here, on Yann's personal Slowly themed blog.
post 1 : Two startups were not successful, what will happen this time
post 2 : How I found my first users
post 3 : 1345 free cups of coffee from around the world
post 4 : Write a personal introduction letter to the start-up
post 5 : An interview on the Clubhouse app
post 6 : Translating our Software – Crowdsourcing pros and cons?
post 7 : The Hard Truths About Business Development
Cheers and thanks to Russian Cousin for keeping track of the original site!
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