In the engineering world, there’s a term thrown about to describe situations where you’ve wound up reinventing the wheel: “NIH Syndrome”, or “Not Invented Here”. The term itself has a larger application than just engineering-related projects, which the related Wikipedia article does an excellent job of summarizing. We see this often with other web companies and services whose first step when going global is creating their own translation platform from scratch. It’s an understandable syndrome to have - if there’s a lot of domain-specific logic, and it’s easy to think that handing... ›Read more
