Software wise, I'd probably look into developing something that helps with localization management. The tools around for managing various translations of copy, images, and so on for websites at the moment are pretty terrible. Maybe one of the reasons a lot of sites are available only in one language.
A simple way to on-board a team of translators and let them manage revisions of copy, manage different variations of copy (for example singular and plural, 1 comment, 2 comments. One minute, two minutes). Then there are more complicated things like functions where you need to say something like "You have just purchased $x apples". This all needs to be wrapped in a simple UI, and then an API/export function that can export this to the WIDE range of formats people use for translation (XLIFF, po, etc to name a few).
In addition to selling the actual software, you can also sell approved translations. You offer to translate their content into another language, with accuracy, for a fee with a reasonable turnaround.
In my experience, localization is best done by referencing to indices in a key-value 'database'. So instead of saying "You have just purchased $x apples", you say $translate.instant('purchasedApples') (angular example), which references to en_US.json, which returns the English translation.
Oh I think you have misunderstood. On the code side for the website/software that is being translated that's what would happen.
This theoretical software is for gathering all of the translations, and having editors and translators (multiple) manage them with ease. Then generating all of the JSON/XML/XLIFF/Other_Format files for every language for use on the site/software. I have yet to find software that can do this well.
Now this is a very interesting app, and is sort of almost what I would build with this theoretical 100k.
I feel like they are missing a trick with limiting themselves to just YAML/Rails though. I will keep an eye on this though, and hope they go language agnostic in the future. Seems to be a very well made product.
Software wise, I'd probably look into developing something that helps with localization management. The tools around for managing various translations of copy, images, and so on for websites at the moment are pretty terrible. Maybe one of the reasons a lot of sites are available only in one language.
A simple way to on-board a team of translators and let them manage revisions of copy, manage different variations of copy (for example singular and plural, 1 comment, 2 comments. One minute, two minutes). Then there are more complicated things like functions where you need to say something like "You have just purchased $x apples". This all needs to be wrapped in a simple UI, and then an API/export function that can export this to the WIDE range of formats people use for translation (XLIFF, po, etc to name a few).
In addition to selling the actual software, you can also sell approved translations. You offer to translate their content into another language, with accuracy, for a fee with a reasonable turnaround.