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Follow your market, pivot when necessary, etc. Be lean. There is an argument for having support, even minimally, for different languages while you find your mar
by ewindisch 11y ago
Follow your market, pivot when necessary, etc. Be lean. There is an argument for having support, even minimally, for different languages while you find your market. Still, there is the catch-22 of expending resources to support potential markets that may not exist. Take for example the Lean Startup's example of building many integrations for chat applications. In the end, they were using flawed assumptions and didn't need ANY integrations. The opportunity cost of the time they spent was gone.
For myself, I had a side project unexpectedly take off in a big way in Germany although I launched it from the US. It was even latency sensitive (a web-based video conferencing solution). The site wasn't translated before that point, but it was certainly an indication that perhaps it was the time to do so...