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Given their specialisation in releasing in non-English markets, the question is not "can you beat them" but more like "can you beat them in India when they have

• andy_ppp 11y ago
  Well I'd say you should operate in all markets as soon as possible. i18n isn't that hard and then it's about hiring the right people in each market. There's a business right there - doing the first part of expanding startups in Europe, India, Africa, China, etc. I'm sure you could scale it pretty well. I don't know what the costing/charging model would be. I suppose Y Combinator has access to some of these things already but not in the way programmers would think about it... * Translation that actually tries to transfer jokes/tone of a site and explains said translations in English. Maybe you could crowd source/do multiple translations.[1] * Tax Rules, Incorporation, Local Laws - as an API where possible. * People who could be good from local markets that could be useful. Hiring abroad must be very difficult. [1] http://gengo.com/ http://gengo.com/ looks like it does this bit I suppose, but I'd like to see more of a market and people being able to discuss pros and cons of each translation.
  • calpaterson 11y ago
    > i18n isn't that hard I don't agree. I think it is very hard. You even mention some of the problems! Law, tax, language, getting 4 translations done quickly enough for you to release new things on a regular basis
    • andy_ppp 11y ago
      I guess after doing about 6-7 i18n sites at Yahoo! I know how to build them pretty well now!