Benjamin Houy

Benjamin Houy

Founder @ Copycat Cafe
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French entrepreneur building products that solve real problems. Built French Together, a language learning app, and rebranded it as Copycat Cafe to reflect a bigger ambition. Now at $16k MRR and growing. Copycat Cafe teaches French and Spanish through a method we call Watch, Copy, Chat. You watch real native speakers, copy what they say with AI scoring your pronunciation, then chat with AI to put it into practice. 15 minutes a day, the way humans actually learn to speak. More languages and an iOS app coming soon. Love connecting with founders tackling interesting problems, especially in AI, language learning, and bootstrapped SaaS. More about the company and what we're building at copycatcafe.com.

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Maker History

  • Copycat Cafe
    Copycat CafeLearn your next language by copying native speakers
    May 2026
  • Lorelight
    LorelightDiscover what AI platforms really say about your brand
    Jun 2025
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 29th, 2021

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Benjamin Houy•

16d ago

Copycat Cafe - Learn your next language by copying native speakers

Most language apps teach you to recognize words. Copycat Cafe teaches you to speak them. Watch real conversations with voices cloned from native speakers, copy what they say with AI scoring your pronunciation 0-100%, then chat freely with an AI that corrects you without judgment. 15 minutes a day. French and Spanish, more languages coming. Built by two people who read every email. 1,000+ paying learners, $16k MRR.
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1yr ago

I write the Product Hunt newsletter. Here's how to get featured in it.

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I write the Product Hunt newsletter. Here's how to get featured in it.

Hey everyone

I'm Aaron and for the last few years I've been writing the Product Hunt newsletters. That includes: our daily, weekly, developer tools, and AI tools ones. Every morning I look through the homepage to try and find the coolest products to write about and I want to share with you all what I look in a launch so you can increase your chances of getting featured!

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