Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Dave, and I built DuLink to solve a problem that's probably familiar to many of you with immigrant parents.
The problem:
My primary language is English after being educated abroad. My mom's is Mandarin Chinese. I'd find articles about health breakthroughs, current events, or things I thought she'd find meaningful and send them to her. But they almost never got read.
It wasn't that she didn't care. It was the friction. Google Translate meant copying text, pasting it in another tab, dealing with broken formatting. Browser extensions confused her. Eventually I just stopped sending as many articles, and those moments of connection quietly slipped away.
Why I built DuLink:
I needed something dead simple: paste a URL, get a shareable translation link. No apps to install. No multi-step workflow. Just a clean link I could text her that opens in her language.
I also added audio playback when I realized that reading dense text on a small screen gets exhausting as we age. Sometimes you just want to listen.
What makes it different:
Unlike Google Translate or browser extensions, DuLink creates a permanent, shareable URL. The translated article lives at that link, beautifully formatted, with optional audio, ready to share via text, WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, etc. Your recipient doesn't need to do anything except open it.
The first time it worked:
I sent my mom a DuLink about a topic she cared about. She actually listened to the whole thing. And the next time we talked, she brought it up. We discussed it. That small moment of real connection, the one I'd been trying to create all along, finally happened.
How it works:
- Free tier: 3 translations/month
- DuLink Plus ($3.99/month): Unlimited translations, audio playback, full history
- Supports 32 target languages
Special offer for Product Hunt:
As a token of appreciation to early adopters in the Product Hunt community, use promo code PHFRIENDS at checkout for one month free of DuLink Plus.
While I built this for a deeply personal reason, I'm sharing it because I suspect I'm not alone. If you have a parent, grandparent, or friend separated by language, I hope DuLink helps you bridge that gap.
Happy to answer any questions! And if you have feedback on features you'd want to see, I'm all ears.
Dave

Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Dave, and I built DuLink to solve a problem that's probably familiar to many of you with immigrant parents.
The problem:
My primary language is English after being educated abroad. My mom's is Mandarin Chinese. I'd find articles about health breakthroughs, current events, or things I thought she'd find meaningful and send them to her. But they almost never got read.
It wasn't that she didn't care. It was the friction. Google Translate meant copying text, pasting it in another tab, dealing with broken formatting. Browser extensions confused her. Eventually I just stopped sending as many articles, and those moments of connection quietly slipped away.
Why I built DuLink:
I needed something dead simple: paste a URL, get a shareable translation link. No apps to install. No multi-step workflow. Just a clean link I could text her that opens in her language.
I also added audio playback when I realized that reading dense text on a small screen gets exhausting as we age. Sometimes you just want to listen.
What makes it different:
Unlike Google Translate or browser extensions, DuLink creates a permanent, shareable URL. The translated article lives at that link, beautifully formatted, with optional audio, ready to share via text, WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, etc. Your recipient doesn't need to do anything except open it.
The first time it worked:
I sent my mom a DuLink about a topic she cared about. She actually listened to the whole thing. And the next time we talked, she brought it up. We discussed it. That small moment of real connection, the one I'd been trying to create all along, finally happened.
How it works:
- Free tier: 3 translations/month
- DuLink Plus ($3.99/month): Unlimited translations, audio playback, full history
- Supports 32 target languages
Special offer for Product Hunt:
As a token of appreciation to early adopters in the Product Hunt community, use promo code PHFRIENDS at checkout for one month free of DuLink Plus.
While I built this for a deeply personal reason, I'm sharing it because I suspect I'm not alone. If you have a parent, grandparent, or friend separated by language, I hope DuLink helps you bridge that gap.
Happy to answer any questions! And if you have feedback on features you'd want to see, I'm all ears.
Dave