A customer rebuilt Habib's previous startup Qordoba over a single weekend
May Habib · Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer · Nov 21, 2024 · at 6:20
May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer, contrasts Writer's rapid generative AI capabilities with her previous machine translation startup, Qordoba.
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“We had a customer basically in a weekend rebuild Cordoba using Writer.”
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