Translate your whole product before you hire for it.
Every string in your app, written in every language you sell in, on every push. 100,000 words to start and 10,000 a month after, free, with no card and no rewrite. From Starter the CLI reads the strings file you already have, and the GitHub Action opens the pull request.
Translation is filed as a problem for after product market fit, so the app stays English only.
You switch it on this afternoon, on the free plan, with no card.
An agency retainer signed before there is revenue to pay it.
100,000 words to start and 10,000 a month after at $0, then $19 flat, with overage metered at $0.0008 a word.
The i18n refactor you keep promising the backlog.
From Starter the CLI reads what you already have: JSON, YAML and gettext PO, schema untouched.
What the first week actually looks like.
Connect the repository
One command finds the strings file, reads its format and leaves the schema alone. There is no migration step.
The pull request arrives
Drafts for your target languages, with the four checks recorded per row and any refused row given one corrective retry before it lands.
Merged, and then forgotten
Every push after this one drafts itself. Forgetting about it is the point of putting it in CI.
A signup nobody on the team can read
Someone onboards in a language you do not speak. The glossary held your product terms and the plural check held the grammar.
The line in the weekly update
You are live in more markets than you have people, and the bill is still the flat plan you started on.
Nothing in that week needs a translation hire, a vendor call or a second tool.
What it costs at seed stage.
words to start on the free plan, then 10,000 a month, at $0 and with no card. Source: the Free row of the plan configuration.
a month for Starter: 300,000 words a month, three seats, and the API, webhooks and CLI that Free cannot mint a token for. Source: the pricing page.
per 100k words past the allowance, because overage meters at $0.0008 a word. Source: the overage rate in the plan configuration.
FAQs
What a founder asks before spending an afternoon on this.