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Hey sorry about that this is our job posting - we duplicated a another one and missed adding that information, thanks for catching that! We added in the salary range. Feel free to email us if you have any other questions!
I got Mighty Health for my mom as a Mother’s Day gift and she loves it! Absolutely worth it and the content the team publishes is especially helpful.
Absolutely, email me at HN username + gmail and I can onboard you :)
A bad actor could only abuse liveTr() to spend your money if they had access to your API keys, which hopefully should be a secret. In these cases, you'll also be able to report bad strings coming in through your dashboard, and we'll take care of the bad actor and re-fund you immediately!
Great question, and thanks so much for sharing your experience at reddit! For static strings, we create resource files and download them directly into your codebase, so your uptime is totally independent of ours once you deploy your app.

For dynamic strings in the database/generated by users, our servers need to be up to receive + handle the translation request, but that will be cached the next time you try to look the translation up.

Thank you for the kind words! Two main reasons for our approach:

1) JavaScript-based apps these days have complex rendering logic that makes the HTML-parser method to find + translate strings unfeasible. Every company we've worked at has needed to extract each string and wrap them with a special `translate` function in their codebase.

2) We make heavy use of the Babel and TypeScript compilers to work with JavaScript ASTs, and there's been huge progress on those recently.

We've thought about NLP, but quality is a huge concern of ours, and we're not quite ready yet to roll that out to companies. If that's something you're interested in, would love to chat, send me an email at HN username + gmail!

Great catch, thank you! We'll update the Hindi example :)

Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs

Hey HN! We’re Eric, Peter, and Abhi, founders of Lang (https://www.langapi.co). We help developers quickly translate their apps into foreign languages by combining internationalization SDKs with a command-line interface that integrates directly with human translators.Previously, we all worked on building internationalization and localization tooling for companies. In our experience, companies...

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Re:Show HN: Lang – Internationalize in under 10 minutes on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:57PM (#19556243)
Nice work guys!