I’ve come across relatively few engineers who had solid experience in software internationalization and knew about locale-specific challenges when building global apps. Yes, they all realized there are different alphabets, date and time formats, currencies, etc....
This coming Wednesday I’m going to give a talk in Krakow at the TMiTup about challenges (not only young) tech companies face when entering global markets with their products. It’s not only about basics, such as proper internationalization, which needs to...
I originally intended to call this article “Why you should not trust translation agencies”, but the more I thought about the topic, the more I found such wording unfair and too general to be accurate. It’s not that translation agencies want to cheat you, overpromising...
In my blog I’m deliberately avoiding the question of why go global, since so much has already been said about this topic. Likely, the decision of whether or not to expand your software to international markets is already behind you, and you’re keen on reaching...
So, you have built this great software and it’s becoming successful in the US market. User adoption picked up, clients are gradually flowing in, and you’ve come up with a plan to expand to international markets. Yes, it’s the right move to go global! You’re thinking...