zdoc

About zdoc

zdoc translates GitHub README files into multiple languages and then keeps those translations up to date as the original changes. That second half is the reason it exists. Translating a README once is a task any language model handles; the failure mode of open-source localisation is drift, where the English README gains three new sections and the Japanese one silently describes a version of the project that no longer ships. zdoc treats the translation as a maintained artefact tied to the source rather than a one-off output, which is what makes multilingual documentation viable for a maintainer who does not speak the target languages and cannot review the diffs. For an open-source project, the payoff is straightforward reach: a large share of developers evaluating a library read English as a second language, and a current translated README lowers the barrier to adoption in exactly the markets where a project has least organic visibility. The site doubles as a discovery surface, listing recommended and trending GitHub projects with star counts, so it functions partly as a directory of the repositories it has processed. The tool is free — the site describes itself plainly as a free tool with no pricing page or paid tiers, and the only interface elements are the project browser and a language selector. There is no signup gate on browsing.

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