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by scrollaway 2514 days ago
I worked on internationalization extensively before (Pootle, specifically).

The good:

The library's API seems pretty well-thought-out. A good i18n API in JS/TS is highly needed, even more so one that works well with React. I use i18next in my projects but it's mediocre, although I don't know that the difficulties I end up facing with it wouldn't show up here.

The bad:

Pricing. Sorry but translation services are extremely competitive, and players that have been around a long time such as Crowdin, Transifex and Weblate have the benefit of being already trusted by name by a huge community of devs and translators.

You also talk about open source a lot but I'm disappointed your web tooling doesn't seem to be open source & self-hostable. This is one point where you really could differenciate yourself.

The ugly:

It looks like you've pretty concretely tied your i18n API and your translation UI together. I can't see your UI or whether it's any good, but I'm likely to want to use your API with a different translation service, or your translation service with a different API.

Also, please, Google oauth is basically a requirement for any b2b service.

(I'm happy to give more thoughts on a video/screenshare chat if you like, feel free to reach out, email in my profile; always want to help new players in the i18n space)