[loloquwowndueo]

The demo site is in German; a language selector is not obviously findable.

It’s also excruciatingly slow to load! “Let the software speak for itself” - well, it did - if I were evaluating invoicing software I’d go look elsewhere mainly based on this very poor first impression. Could certainly use some optimization / speed up.

[sltkr]

The site feels rather snappy to me. The backend is powered by PHP; most pages load in 100-200 ms, which is very reasonable. I've certainly used much, much slower software, especially for business purposes.

Maybe the demo site is suffering from whatever the hacker news equivalent of slashdotting is, or the host might not be well-connected to the internet outside Europe.

[christogreeff]

You might need to consider that she didn't intend for HN volumes of traffic. Also, it loaded fine for me.

[nemiah]

Nope, I did not ;)

[tasogare]

> The demo site is in German

The target market is probably Germany. The post mentions amount of money in euros, but never other currencies used in English-speaking countries. It make sense to not internationalize the website if the product doesn’t fit the international market (I bet invoices have different legal requirements everywhere).

[christogreeff]

Yeah, from the comments on the blog: "The German market would be Germany, Switzerland and Austria. That's over a hundred million people. Works for me "

[cosmodisk]

German speaking market is big enough and rich enough to solely focus on it+less competition compared to English speaking countries.

[loloquwowndueo]

And yet the blog article is in English and it was promoted in an English site (hacker news :)

[scbrg]

The "blog" article is in English because it's posted in an English speaking community (who are presumably more interested in the story than the software itself).

It's "promoted" on HN by someone other than the author, it seems.

[nemiah]

No, wasn't me. I actually decided against posting the link here.

[nvr219]

The blog is about the author's experience not about the software itself

[Shadonototro]

it's a full featured 2mb web app

it is not a bloated 20mb C# blazor simple todo mvc web app lol

[jensus]

found the site and app to be very snappy with a connection from England. Might give more understanding to your experience if you added some context, location, internet speed ect.