I translated my app into Chinese. I don't speak Chinese.
The translation itself took minutes. Verifying it found a bug that had been sitting in my app all along — in English too. Why bother While researching where local AI inference is actually popular, I kept running into the same answer: China. It makes sense — capable consumer GPUs, a strong self-hosting culture, a healthy distrust of cloud services. It’s also a market that’s structurally out of reach for Western cloud SaaS… but not for an open-source desktop app. Nothing to host, nothing to bill, nothing to block. ...