built an ai localization tool/management platform and now we need people to tell us why it sucks
we’ve been building something called LocIn AI and honestly we need people to destroy the idea before launch
you can test it here:
current app:
important note:
it’s not final at all. there are bugs, rough edges, unfinished parts etc. we mainly need honest feedback right now
context:
i spent ~8 months interning at an AI edtech startup, and one recurring problem was localization/i18n at scale. our CTO was constantly throwing huge 8k+ string localization tasks into Google AI Studio and Cursor, but context kept breaking apart and consistency got messy
at first we honestly looked at this as a simple side project. like “okay the idea is cool, we’ll build it and move on”
but while experimenting, we realized something more interesting:
for vibe coders or teams that never properly set up i18n, our unreleased CLI can scan the whole codebase, inject i18n keys, organize them, and generate translations automatically
the interesting part is that translations are generated based on selectable tone profiles. soon we’re adding style extraction too, where you can give a URL and it extracts the writing/product style automatically
so in theory it can handle some “too much context” workflows that tools like Claude Code struggle with
BUT:
we genuinely do not want to oversell this
we need criticism more than hype
tell us:
- why this is a bad idea
- what breaks technically at scale
- whether this is actually painful enough to be a company
the funny part is that a pretty important VC from turkey was actually the reason we started taking this seriously as a startup instead of “just another project”
recently we also talked with a VC scout from china who said they’d consider investing if we can pull off a genuinely strong launch. if that happens, we’d probably build a dedicated research team around the problem
to be honest:
for non-technical people this sounds “genius”
but we want this to become a real devtool that actually saves engineering time
and no matter what happens, we’re launching anyway because at the end of the day this is an EXPERIMENT
please be harsh, but constructive