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Since 2004, we've helped companies of all sizes, from indie app and game developers to industry leaders, reach audiences in 120+ languages. We combine linguistic expertise, cultural intelligence, and advanced technology to handle every aspect of global expansion.
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Nitro 4.0
Launching today
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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Launch Team
Alconost Localization Lab
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.
Alconost Localization Lab
@morgan_nabors 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.
Alconost Localization Lab
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! 🙌
Alconost Localization Lab
@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 ^__^