I have an idea for a service to help app developers, and I would love to hear your input.<p>It's a service that let you manage all of your app's strings in a nice and friendly interface. It allows you to change text easily without deploying code, and lets non-coders enter and edit text. It will have an html wysiwyg editor to let people without html knowledge do some basic markup. Also, it let's you manage localization and easily assign translations to translators.<p>From 2-3 people I talked to about this idea, two concerns were spoken of:<p>1. it introduced another point of failure for an app. My answer: all the strings are shipped in a json file that you can put in your s3 account, and cache in CDNs as you like.<p>2. it's relatively easy to create your own string manager/decoupler for your app. My answer: Yeah, but it's also really cheap and easy to pay $10 for an existing solution, no?
Until the last few sentences I had no idea what you are talking about and how this coud possibly work. Then I saw "CDN" and realized you mean <i>WEBSITE</i> not <i>APPLICATION</i>. Should probably clarify that
For us it wouldn't be worthwhile (6 languages), our text just doesn't change very often and being embedded in the apps guarantees instant delivery at any scale.<p>Since we don't have multiple people maintaining text it's trivial to do this ourselves if we needed to, and comparable to how we already manage cross promotions and stuff.
First reaction, "No, visual studio does this for me."<p>Second reaction, I think this should be packaged with localization tooling or be a simple, low-cost app. I don't understand what the value you are providing to me every month when I look at localization most likely a few times a year.