Do you guys translate your app into multiple languages? 🌍
If so, why? If not, why? 🤔
I need to understand what's stopping people from doing it, vs what makes others doing it, in order to better target my marketing strategy for my new product.
Please share your experience! 🤗
#buildinpublic
If so, why? If not, why? 🤔
I need to understand what's stopping people from doing it, vs what makes others doing it, in order to better target my marketing strategy for my new product.
Please share your experience! 🤗
#buildinpublic
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One is English-only, as it’s designed for English learners at a B1-B2 level.
The listing description for the other one has been translated (mostly automatically) - this impacts positively on SEO a little bit
I guess you don't edit the description every other day, so automation (which my product does) wouldn't make sense for your case 🙂
It’s the kind of task I did and never came back to.
Thanks for your feedback 😀
How do you handle translation? 🙂
Thanks for the feedback!
Its in rails so I use i18n and yml files, and for the custom questions since I don't know what they are, I use deepl to auto translate and cache the answer
Why would companies translate their apps if not for ROI then?
I’m not a company, and neither is 99% of #buildinpublic
internationalization means major headache which is rarely worthwhile for solo makers
btw Rob Walling brings up this topic in the SaaS Playbook as one of major blunders you could make early on
So I should probably focus on companies (SMBs) that already have a localization process
Thanks for your feedback
- as a French guy, seeing foreign websites automatically translated by Google really hurts the eyes (it sometimes doesn't make any sense)
- browser translation doesn't impact SEO
- you don't have control over the generated content
Seems too niche of a feature at least in the beginning
This definitely can lead to more users and an improved experience for non-native english speakers though (if your app is in english)
What's your project about?