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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, i

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.

tasogare 6y ago
> 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).
- loloquwowndueo 6y ago
  And yet the blog article is in English and it was promoted in an English site (hacker news :)
  - scbrg 6y ago
    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 6y ago
      No, wasn't me. I actually decided against posting the link here.
  - nvr219 6y ago
    The blog is about the author's experience not about the software itself
- christogreeff 6y ago
  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 6y ago
  German speaking market is big enough and rich enough to solely focus on it+less competition compared to English speaking countries.
sltkr 6y ago
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 6y ago
You might need to consider that she didn't intend for HN volumes of traffic. Also, it loaded fine for me.
- nemiah 6y ago
  Nope, I did not ;)
Shadonototro 6y ago
it's a full featured 2mb web app it is not a bloated 20mb C# blazor simple todo mvc web app lol
jensus 6y ago
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.

tasogare 6y ago

> 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).

loloquwowndueo 6y ago
And yet the blog article is in English and it was promoted in an English site (hacker news :)
- scbrg 6y ago
  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 6y ago
    No, wasn't me. I actually decided against posting the link here.
- nvr219 6y ago
  The blog is about the author's experience not about the software itself
christogreeff 6y ago
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 6y ago
German speaking market is big enough and rich enough to solely focus on it+less competition compared to English speaking countries.

sltkr 6y ago

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 6y ago

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

nemiah 6y ago
Nope, I did not ;)

Shadonototro 6y ago

it's a full featured 2mb web app it is not a bloated 20mb C# blazor simple todo mvc web app lol

jensus 6y ago

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.