What was Localazy's origin story, and what motivated its founder to build the platform?

Václav Hodek, Localazy’s founder and CEO, was an independent developer building and translating his fairly successful Android app into 30+ languages when he ran into the same frustration many developers face: existing localization tools didn’t fit the way he worked.

The solutions he tried were either too clunky, too expensive, or required too much manual effort just to get translations into his projects. So he built a platform from a developer’s perspective, prioritizing automation, CLI-first workflows, and clean API integration. Localazy launched in April 2020 as an MVP for Android app localization and grew from there into the fully-featured translation management platform for software teams it is today.

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31/03/2026
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