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Show HN: Lang – Internationalize in under 10 minutes

20 pointsby peterlzhouabout 6 years ago

3 comments

peterlzhouabout 6 years ago
Hi everyone! I&#x27;m Peter, co-founder of Lang.<p>The majority of the world isn’t English speaking, but most web apps are served only in English. This is because it’s difficult and time consuming to internationalize apps. We’ve built translation infrastructure that works out-of-the-box. With Lang, it’s easy to internationalize your site with human translators and instantly reach a global audience.<p>Our getting started guide is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@peterlzhou&#x2F;lang-api-is-live-9a9c5273ef41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@peterlzhou&#x2F;lang-api-is-live-9a9c5273ef41</a> . We’ve been in a closed alpha with three SF-based companies for the last month and are excited to open up to a larger group of people! Talk to us at peter@langapi.co.<p>Shoutout to our team – Eric Yu, Abhi Sivaprasad, Klaire Tan, and Shreya Dixit!
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jakobeggerabout 6 years ago
How do you solve the context problem?<p>A lot of poorly translated software suffers from translations that obviously lack context. This is especially common with labels for UI elements like buttons and menu items.<p>A lot of AWS suffers from that -- for example, the AWS Lambda interface is translated so poorly to German in some places that I had to switch to English to understand what the options are supposed to do.<p>For example, there was a permission setting labelled &quot;öffnen&quot;, (which is a verb and means &quot;to open&quot;) when the correct translation would have been &quot;öffentlich&quot; (public).<p>Or in another case, the command &quot;Exit&quot; (as in leave the program) was translated as &quot;Ausfahrt&quot; (as in a highway exit).<p>Mistakes like that make it cery hard to use localized software. How do you suppose you can fix that?
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rahimnathwaniabout 6 years ago
Your pricing page says &quot;Upfront Pricing. Pay for what you need.&quot; and the basic plan ($149&#x2F;month) on that page includes &quot;Unlimited Human Translations&quot;.<p>Do those phrases mean that you don&#x27;t charge a per-word fee for humans to translate your customers&#x27; strings?
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