We’ve worked on a multilingual translation portal for some time (it’s ready as a matter of fact, a drupal with some nifty GUI, mutlilingual, multiblog, etc… online page editing, community based) but have dropped the idea in favour of a dedicated translation service targeted to specific webcomics instead.

Not that the idea lacks potential, on the contrary. These portals will become the Wikipedias of comics & books. I’m positive this business model is promising.

Reason is, what I like best is writing, reading and translating. I just don’t have the time to run a 1500 members community and write 6000 words a day, and translate 3000 at the same time. I’d need two lives.

I chose to concentrate on what I do best and build specific and close relationships with the few authors I really appreciate, to translate their works and guaranty them the best translation possible by taking the time to exchange with them on an individual basis, something I just couldn’t figure a way of doing with the aforementioned portal… without becoming a manager instead of a writer.

I’ve been a manager in a precedent life, in civil engineering, for 15 years, in order to gain my financial independence. Now that it’s done, Enough

Good luck to you too, and keep us informed.
I’ll pop to say hello as soon as you’re open.

Cathbad