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Nitro 4.0 - The first human translation platform built for AI agents

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Nitro is now the first human translation service an AI agent can order and pay for on its own — no account, no API keys, no signup. Your agent sends the text, pays per request, and a professional native speaker translates it — publication-ready in hours. Great for the smaller texts that still need to be right: ads, app updates, email sequences, and more. The ordering is machine-to-machine. The translating stays human. 80+ languages. No plans, no minimums.

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Hi Product Hunt!
I'm Diana, product manager for Nitro. I've been in this role for eight years, so I've watched Nitro grow up.
When we started, Nitro was a simple platform for one thing: getting short texts translated by professional human translators, fast. Over the years we built it into something much more powerful — adding context so translators get it right (screenshots, tone of voice, character limits) and expanding what you can send.
Each of our past Product Hunt launches marked one of those leaps:

  • First launch: the core service, API, and export to Google Sheets

  • Second launch: file support — Google Docs translation with formatting preserved

  • Third launch: developer and content formats like JSON, HTML, iOS Strings, XML, and Google Sheets

Despite being a niche product, Nitro got noticed here. A #4 Product of the Day and two #5s for a product this niche still surprises us, and it's thanks to this community. Grateful and a little humbled every time — that's why we're back today to show you what's next.
What Alconost has always strived for is the same: pair genuinely good human translation with the most powerful tech we can build around it. This launch is the latest step. Nitro now supports MPP — the machine payments protocol — so an AI agent can order a human translation and pay for it on its own, with no account and no API keys. You hand your agent the task, it sends the text and pays per request, and a professional native speaker delivers the copy.
We think it'll be interesting for folks building with agents — Nitro is the first translation service to offer this — and we hope the localization crowd finds it just as interesting. We'd love your thoughts and questions!

Publication-ready in hours is a bold claim. I'd love to see actual turnaround data from real orders before I trust it for anything client-facing.

Maker

 you are right, it is. The actual figures on the landing page is 2-24 hours as the average turnaround time. We used to have a real-time dashboard on the landing page, and usually about 60% of orders were completed within 2 hours.

But I should say most orders on Nitro are small volume - something for which a regular process with a project manager and invoicing is too much hassle. I've made a screenshot from some recent orders - again, most of them are small, but the one that's marked 'Google Docs' is over 2,000 characters - still not large, but anyway, finished by a real native-speaking translator in 1h 41 min.

Congrats on the launch! qq When an agent orders with no account, how does the translation get back to it?

Maker

 Thanks! The agent gets an access token back when it places the order, then just polls and pulls the result through the API when it's ready - no account or dashboard needed, it all stays in the agent's flow.

Maker

 Also, I'll share the docs in case you'd like to see the exact flow:

 Thank you! I'll check it out

Maker

Hey Product Hunt people! 👋

This launch makes me a little nostalgic - I ran the first and second Nitro launches here, and spent a long while in customer support and customer development before that. 

What I love is that after all these years Nitro keeps catching up with what's new; it doesn't sit still. This launch is a great example: the moment AI agents became a real thing, we found a way for them to bring human translators in rather than replace them. It's been a joy to watch it evolve. We'll be happy to answer any questions about Nitro!

 That OG launcher energy! It's super inspiring to see a product continuously reinvent itself over the years while staying true to its core. Huge congrats on another milestone launch! 🙌

Maker

 Thank you so much for your warm support, Helen! <3
We are very excited about this launch and very grateful to Product Hunt people for the feedback ^__^

If there's no account and the agent placed the order — where do the finished translations actually come back to?

Maker

 Good question if you're new to working with agents: everything comes back through the agent itself. You don't need to log in anywhere or go collect it - the agent that placed the order receives the finished translation and hands it back to you in the same flow. The whole exchange happens in one place.

I wasn't expecting machine-to-machine ordering with human delivery to be the next step in localization. It'll be interesting to see what kinds of AI agents people end up connecting to Nitro first.

Maker

 I agree, that's not what one would expect in today's "automate everything" world, right? But human translation is still in demand, so we started thinking in this direction - automation + human translation (but not machine translation post edited by humans!), and here it is - Nitro's agentic flow :)
Thanks very much for your support, Henry!

As someone who's dealt with clunky localization vendors, skipping the account and API key setup entirely is honestly refreshing. I'd try this for a small app update just to see the turnaround time.

Maker

 Thanks for your support Jessica! Yes, a small app update is perfect to give it a try. I hope you like it and let us know your feedback! :)

Do you see this being used mostly for app localization, or are email campaigns and marketing copy becoming the bigger use case?

Maker

 a lot of Nitro customers come from Alconost (our company that specializes in localization), so they are mostly app & game developers, but there is a growing base of marketers (say, for SaaS products, hospitality industry, etc.) who translate landing pages, email sequences, texts for their banners and promo videos. Apps and games also order translations for marketing - like app store copy, subtitles for videos, sometimes answer templates for app store reviews.

Congrats on a new launch, guys! I am wondering something: how do you ensure quality if an agent is placing the order?

Maker

 thank you! Quality comes from the translators, not the ordering method - the same professional native speakers handle the work whether a human or an agent placed the order. The agent just automates the request; the human standard behind it is unchanged.

great idea, i’m seeing many successful products that make interactions more convenient for ai agents useful. congrats on the launch!

Maker

 thanks very much Arseniy! ^_^

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