Recently, I have to read a lot of documentation in English. Since I know the language poorly, I use Google as a translator every time. The method is working, but not the most convenient.

I had an idea to translate documentation for popular frameworks / libs and sell it by subscription. Well, for example, I needed documentation on mongodb, bought access for 200r and normally read without breaking eyes and brain.

Do you think it is possible to earn something on this? Would you buy it? And how do you read the docks now?

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  • I read 40%, something in Russian, 60% in English. The idea is generally good. I rarely use a translator, if I need complex and incomprehensible words. - LFC
  • One thing is not clear. You yourself say that the language you know is bad. How then are you going to transfer for sale? - Yaant
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    The idea is interesting. I think there is a future. But he would not use it. (Maybe these are my personal cockroaches in my head, but it seems to me that the developer must be able to read the documentation in English). But the developers of libs / frameworks probably have some rights to their documentation to them, aren't they? Would they allow her to make money on it? - YungBlade
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    in technical literature, especially in documentation, vocabulary is needed rather modest. imho idea a failure. firstly, popular frameworks and libs have translations, secondly, to buy subscriptions you need a very good translation, which is difficult to do if you do not know the language well, and it is especially difficult to make a good translation if you don’t know the subject itself (and if you read the docks, it means you don't know him). Thirdly, you probably did not try to translate documentation and articles, this is a very time-consuming occupation, which requires more than one person’s labor. - teran
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    from this point of view, how-to articles are much more interesting - teran

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I don’t know English, it doesn’t bother me to read the documentation in English, google translator helps, and very often it’s enough to look at the examples and everything is clear.

  1. I think you will not earn something with subscriptions. Because:
    • there are constantly updates and documentation changes
    • There are a lot of frameworks and new ones constantly appear (Buy a subscription for Mongi, well, not a niche)
    • People who do not know English are less common, especially programmers
    • It seems to me that the Russification of the docks may be needed only at the stage of acquaintance with the liby, and when you do not know you choose the tool and because of trying to buy a subscription is not Nice.
  2. I would never pay for it in my life
  3. In 70% of cases, examples are enough for me, in 20% google is a translator, in 10% my wretched knowledge of English is at the level when you read with passages of phrases

    If a person does not know English and cannot read something, then obviously he has nothing to do in programming, since there is an EXTREMELY all in English and you need to think in English and write in English. All this is of course quite simplistic, but if you calmly write and understand the code, then there will be no problems with the documentation. The answers to the questions are quite simple and obvious:

    1. Perhaps you will earn something, but you need to understand that it is necessary to maintain the relevance of the documentation, without it it costs nothing, which means you cannot cope alone. And irrelevant documentation is unnecessary to anyone.
    2. Personally, I would not buy and I do not know people who would buy.
    3. What are those I read searching for the right places on the keywords.