HackerNoon & Engineering Publications
PoquitoTalk Build-in-Public & Engineering Library
Articles about building PoquitoTalk in Bocas del Toro: two published on HackerNoon, plus ship logs and engineering notes from the build.
On HackerNoon
HackerNoon
Building PoquitoTalk, a Zero-Install Voice Translation Workflow for Real-World Conversations
14 years in Bocas, the Zero-Burden Principle, and why the contractor never has to install anything.
On HackerNoon
HackerNoon
From Words to Code: Pivoting My Translation Career Through Shipaton 2026
How a freelance translator in Bocas del Toro started building apps.
Ship Log
5 min read
Playing AI Tennis, Surviving a Google Play Rejection, and Shipping PoquitoTalk v1.5.9
A Sunday-morning rejection, what caused it, the billing bug a second review caught, and the first web sale.
Engineering • Architecture
8 min read
How PoquitoTalk Turns English Into Panamanian Spanish Voice Notes
What actually shipped: layered speech-to-text, a phrase map plus Panamanian dialect rules, ElevenLabs voices, and a zero-install walkie-talkie running on plain PHP.