Localazy

Even if it's an internal tool, it's extremely important to make it efficient, so it actually supports your business the right way.

Today, I put together a small administrative tool to search users, projects & organizations and to do some essential operations. It will improve and speed up our customer support.

It's no technical miracle - Kotlin/Javalin serving static Bootstrap forms rendered by Freemarker, and the whole thing is packed as a Docker container. But it was really a matter of just a few hours to get it glued together. Most of the time, I wrote SQL queries for obtaining projects across users, organizations & teams, and stuff like this.

The best one is the notification about new apps that integrate Localazy. Motivation!

It adds a lot of improvements for managing files, tagging localization, CDN, format support, batch operations, etc.

It's going to be a simple way to deliver localizable files worldwide!

Today, I worked on many improvements to make Localazy better for our customers - mostly improved support for PO/POT, RESX and XLIFF formats, and ICU message format.

But it's not the kind of progress I would like to see. It's improving Localazy without visible added value. You know, it's not fun :-).

Over the few last days, I mostly worked on sales, business administration and things related to it. Today, I finally find some spare time to do some improvements of the Localazy backend.

Our VC is happy with our progress and would like to speed up the growth by providing us with additional money faster than initially negotiated.

Good sign that we are doing great?

Sometimes, to introduce new features or fix issues, it's necessary to migrate the current database schema to the new one. I wouldn't say I like it. I'm always scared :-). Of course, there are backups and replicas, but you know... that weird feeling is still here. Do you know it?

Always improving the product! :-)

Building a product is more fun, but sometimes, you need to invest time in things that can scale the fun! 🔥🚀

Returning users, so it's not accidental payment or a mistake, but nice proof of our Virtual Translator - a human-assisted machine translations.