This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition
What I Built
I built Horizon, a voice translator for travelers — speak a sentence in one language, and it translates and speaks it back in another, live, so two people who don't share a language can still have a conversation.
The passion behind this isn't really about translation, though. It's about not giving up on building something real.
For a couple of years now I've wanted to start a business of my own. My first real attempt was back in university, and it didn't go the way I hoped. My second attempt has been looking pretty grim too. Currently, due to a lack of funds, I am considering putting my passion on hold. Ironically it's right now that a lot of ideas are coming to mind, and this translation one is actually a fairly recent addition to the list. I pictured it as a mobile app, and I only have web development skills, not app development. Learning app development and covering the time and cost to actually get something onto the Play Store wasn't realistic for me right now, so it just stayed an idea.
