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Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by bloudermilk »

jeanlucas wrote: post #21

Heads up, "Portuguese" you mean Portugal, Brazil, and/or Africa? Those audiences are completely different in size, ticket, and so on.

To be fair you could say that about all the languages listed by OP. Colonial/imperial histories and all that…

Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by jeanlucas »

rom16384 wrote: post #14

For the Portuguese market you can try Pplware [1] [1] https://pplware.sapo.pt/

There is no true player in Brazil, but I think an easy access to news outlet for tech if you use TabNews [1], a HackerNews clone made by a tech influencer where he uses as source for his newsletter.

edit* Just a heads up: the tech influencer behind it usually doesn't give sources when getting content from TabNews. So it may be a flop.

[1]: https://www.tabnews.com.br/

Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by OnlyMateo »

jeanlucas wrote: post #21

Heads up, "Portuguese" you mean Portugal, Brazil, and/or Africa? Those audiences are completely different in size, ticket, and so on.

Yeah, I mean Brazil, Portugal and etc with Protuguese speaking audience. I think that if you do some SaaS or App firstly it's about language for users and not important about country.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by gota »

byte_0 wrote: post #19

Sorry that my comment provides little to no value to the original question: being a native Spanish speaker from Latin America, in my 10 years in IT, I have been so far unable to find a site that comes close to any tech forum or something like Hacker News. I agree with franciscop that there should be a Spanish Hacker News. The problem is: what content would it be fed with, as quality content is scarce.

And why wouldn't that content be translated into English anyway?

I struggle to imagine such local-specific topics that they couldn't/wouldn't draw attention here at HN

Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

thyselius wrote: post #20

Only half related to Op’s question but I’m thinking a lot about this right now as i just translated my iPhone app to 11 languages and released the update a week ago. I see NO additional downloads and I’m really curious to why. If anyone here has some experience or insight I’d really love to hear about it.

Not to state the obvious, but the null hypothesis would be: there's no demand.

English has a whole lot of market-share in the technical world - for better or for worse.

Re: Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Post by garbagecoder »

byte_0 wrote: post #19

Sorry that my comment provides little to no value to the original question: being a native Spanish speaker from Latin America, in my 10 years in IT, I have been so far unable to find a site that comes close to any tech forum or something like Hacker News. I agree with franciscop that there should be a Spanish Hacker News. The problem is: what content would it be fed with, as quality content is scarce.

quizá https://www.meneame.net ?
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