Reel 00
Writing
What we learned
building this
Every post here comes from this project's own measurements — the failures that shipped, the checks that caught them, and what a season actually costs. That is the one thing we can write that a competitor cannot copy.
01
2026-08-19
· 3 min
What it actually costs to translate a season of subtitles
Measured, not estimated: real API cost per episode, why the second person to order a popular title pays the same but costs us a third, and what that means for pricing.
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02
2026-08-19
· 5 min
What eleven checks on a subtitle cue actually catch
Every cue is validated before it reaches you, and anything that fails goes back to the model with the complaint attached. Here is what the checks look for and why each one exists.
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03
2026-08-19
· 4 min
Why free subtitle translators quietly lose half your dialogue
A subtitle cue can contain a newline. A lot of translation pipelines pass cues around in a format where a newline ends the record. Here is what that does to an episode.
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