[essay-01]
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Translation natural, not literal
Most clinic translations read like instruction manuals. The fix is not a better model, it's writing rules each language honors. Here are ours.
[01] field notes
Notes from running a multilingual layer
for dental clinics.
Short essays on the things that surprised me building DentalPolyglot. Translation that ranks, where clinic software ends and medical software begins, and what we learned saying no to features. Updated monthly, more often when something burns me.
written in bucharest · in english first, translated when it earns it
[essay-02]
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Why we ship fonts ourselves
Self-hosted Geist costs 34 KB per face after subsetting. fonts.googleapis.com costs a third-party request, a privacy disclosure, and a font swap. The math is unambiguous.
[essay-03]
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Founder pricing: full price, six months waived
No founder discount, full €499 setup, then six monthly invoices on the house. Sounds like the same money. It is not. Here is what changes about who signs up.
[essay-04]
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Two products, one founder, no shared accounts
DentalPolyglot and Dental Travel Concierge live next to each other. They do not share a database, a Stripe account, or a domain. Here is why I keep them separate even though it costs me ops time.
[essay-05]
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EU clinic SEO in 2026
What ranks dental clinics in cross-border search this year, what stopped working, and what the AI overviews are doing to the funnel.
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