durumis Development Story - Part 1: The Beginning

Hello, this is Harrison, a developer and one of the many dreamers who created durumis.

We've finally launched durumis, and now I'm writing this post.

It's been about 4 months since we started developing it around last Chuseok...

When we first started building durumis, our goal was to figure out what we could create using generative AI – which, at the time, was Google PaLM2.

So, we brainstormed and came up with the most readily available ideas like summarization, organization, and translation, and we envisioned a blog service that integrated these features.

Naturally, if we were to create a blog service targeting the Korean market, the market would be too small. And since generative AI transcends language barriers, we decided to build it as a multilingual service from the very beginning. That's how we started developing durumis.

From the start, durumis was designed to be global and multilingual, and generative AI along with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) were the perfect tools for the job.

Our company has already built chatbots using generative AI, and these AI models can understand Korean questions asked on English websites and respond in Korean. So, there was no reason why we couldn't do it.

We've been a Cloud Build Partner with GCP for a long time, and we're very familiar with it. This made it easy for us to develop a globally distributed service without any hesitation.

It's a dream for many developers: deploying servers across the globe and running a multi-region service. We were able to achieve this, and it opened the door to international expansion. There was no reason not to try.

This concludes part 1.

In the next part, we'll delve into the service architecture, development process, and operational aspects, explaining the infrastructure level step-by-step.

Oh, and by the way, durumis doesn't have a subscription feature yet, but we do offer an RSS service.

My RSS feed URL is https://durumis.com/feed/ko/@calmlake79 .

While RSS services are gradually declining in popularity these days, they can still be effectively used with tools like Slack.

I'll discuss this in more detail later.

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