Hi PH, solo dev building Veilr: random chat where language isn't a wall

Hi everyone! I'm Vasiliy, a solo developer. When the original Omegle shut down, I kept thinking that the most interesting strangers are the ones you can't talk to, because you don't share a language. So I'm building Veilr: random text, voice or video chat where messages can arrive translated and calls get live captions in your language.

A few things from building it, mostly with Claude Code as a coder + critic pair of agents:

• I chose captions over a dubbed voice: you still hear the real person.

• An empty room kills random chat, so while you wait there's now a voice AI in your language, always labeled as AI.

• The critic agent keeps catching bugs I would have shipped.

We launch here next week. What made you stop using random chat apps?