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Alexandru Poznan

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I bought a house in Germany. The notary read 47 pages of legal German while I nodded along understanding maybe 60%. That experience became explains.app ā€” upload any contract, lease, or NDA and get every clause explained in plain language. Risk alerts, key terms, AI chat per section. PDF, Word, scanned docs. 7 languages. 14-day free trial. Nobody should sign something they don't fully understand.

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Alexandru Poznan
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Hey Product Hunt! šŸ‘‹ I'm Alexandru, a developer from Romania living in Germany. Last year I bought a house here. The notary read the purchase contract aloud for 90 minutes ā€” 47 pages of dense legal German. I'm a developer, not a lawyer. I understood maybe 60% of what I was signing. The rest I just... hoped was fine. It was fine. But that experience stuck with me. Why is it so hard to understand a document you're literally putting your signature on? So I built explains.app. You upload any legal document ā€” contract, lease, NDA, employment agreement ā€” and the AI breaks down every section in plain language, right next to the original text. It flags risky clauses, defines key terms, and lets you ask follow-up questions about specific paragraphs. A few things I'm proud of: ā†’ It works in 7 languages (useful for expats like me) ā†’ OCR support for scanned documents ā†’ AI Chat per section ā€” not just "explain this," but actual back-and-forth on specific clauses ā†’ 14-day free trial, no commitment The hardest part wasn't the tech ā€” it was figuring out where the line is between "making it accessible" and "giving legal advice" (which I explicitly don't do). Would love to hear from anyone who's been in a similar situation ā€” signing something and hoping for the best. What would have made that experience less stressful for you?