What shipped, what's next. We're making the first social network built for 7.9 billion people — not one language. Here's the progress.
The site now covers every major social network and translation tool comparison, plus 12 vertical use-case pages for creators, businesses, travelers, educators, expats, gamers, remote teams, students, journalists, fans, and e-commerce sellers. New long-form essay: The $38 Trillion Language Tax.
A non-intrusive "Join Waitlist" bar now appears on every content page after 400px of scroll — so visitors who make it through a comparison or use-case page can sign up without scrolling back to the top. Plausible event tracking wired up per location.
Added: Babel vs Meta, vs WeChat, vs LINE, vs TikTok, vs Reddit. Each page includes FAQ schema, Article schema, BreadcrumbList, and Plausible CTA tracking.
Aggregates all 12 comparison pages into two sections (Social Networks + Translation Tools) so visitors can land on a single "Babel alternatives" page and browse the full set. Internal linking authority signal for search engines.
Four new use-case pages covering university students, working journalists, global superfan communities, and cross-border online sellers. Each page is long-form, structured for SEO, and cross-linked into the use-cases hub.
Shipped: Babel vs Google Translate, vs DeepL, vs ChatGPT. First time we're positioning Babel against the "just use a translator" alternative.
Stripped .html extensions from sitemap (23 URLs), canonical tags, Open Graph URLs, and 26 pages of internal links. Added BreadcrumbList schema to 15 inner pages. Eliminated Cloudflare 308 crawl waste.
Synced the light theme from the homepage to all 26+ inner pages. Consistent typography, spacing, and color variables. White background, #0f172a text, #4f6ae6 accent.
Waitlist position tracking, referral codes, share buttons (Twitter + WhatsApp), live signup counter, embeddable /badge page with light and dark variants.
Launched the Babel blog with four foundational essays: Why Babel Exists, How Babel Works, The Language Barrier Problem Nobody Talks About, and 5 Communities Without Borders.
Landing page deployed to Cloudflare Pages with the waitlist worker, security headers, sitemap, robots.txt, and Plausible analytics. First version of the hero: "The curse, reversed."
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