groundthrower

Hi!

We have a web application, in English. Our team is not big enough to manually handle translations in different languages.

I know there are dozens of Translation services available but it seems that they are used to translate a string - we want all text translated after all JavaScript is loaded.

The thing is that both Edge and Chrome has built in translator features (which I guess call their respective APIs in the background). We have tried out those and the result is usually great (at least when translating to our native language).

Is it possible to call those browser translation services manually through an JS API? Also - we already have some users using those built in translation functions - to what quota are these counted on? I mean if we would have millions of users translating our page through the browser translation service - we ourself have no agreement with the translation providers?

Any input on this?

Having a SaaS where most of our customers sign up for the $99/month.

Even though we have good margins I wonder what happens regarding inflation. Anyone tried raising their prices above $99?

We have a SaaS that relatively regularly receives questions if we can connect with SAP.

If we have a REST API - can we use that somehow? Is it much work required? I know it’s a how long is a rope kind of question but would like to know in the ballpark how much effort we would need to put into it.

We have a performance intensive application running on a AMD Epyc dedicated instance with 32 cores (our application is highly parallelizable)

We just noticed locally on our dev environment that our M1 is actually performing better performance wise (don’t ask me how).

We are now considering switching our production servers to M1 minis which is also offered by our cloud provider. Do you have any experience on running M1s / Mac in an production environment regarding stability / uptime etc?

Edit: it’s a Rust application which uses the Rayon crate. The application gets on average one request a minute which crunches some numbers for an average of 2 seconds - so it’s mostly idle. No disk IO.

Hi there,

We are planning on releasing a documentation portal for our saas and a question popped up if this should only be visible for authorized users.

Pros: Hide unique features from competitors

Cons: Less exposure, SEO

Deep inside I think the right answer is to not worry about competitors but to focus on your on product. The features are already visible sort of on the homepage.

Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.