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!
Congrats on the launch! qq When an agent orders with no account, how does the translation get back to it?
@alieksia 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.
@alieksia Also, I'll share the docs in case you'd like to see the exact flow: https://docs.nitrotranslate.com/agentic-flow
@margarita_s88 Thank you! I'll check it out
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!
@margarita_s88 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! 🙌
@fedulovelena 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?
@ksenia_khauyk 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.
@henry_habib 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.
@jusiy_waller 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! :)
Congrats on a new launch, guys! I am wondering something: how do you ensure quality if an agent is placing the order?
@elena_kozak 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!
@arseniy_shishaev1 thanks very much Arseniy! ^_^
It's impressive to see how Nitro has evolved over multiple launches while staying focused on quality. Wishing the team another successful launch! 🎉
@aarav_pittman Thank you very much for your support!
Hi everyone!
I'm Alex — I run Alconost, and Nitro has been my baby for years. I came up with it out of a simple frustration: for short texts — an app update, an ad, a few lines of email — professional translation was far too heavy. You shouldn't need a project manager and a quote to translate three sentences. Nitro was my answer to that.
I've since moved on to other projects, but I still keep an eye on it and bring ideas to the team — and seeing it come back to Product Hunt a fourth time, now with AI agents able to hire human translators directly, feels kind of surreal. Huge thanks to the Product Hunt crowd for all the support over the years.