Polygon Video

Hey Product hunt! @jonathan_xu and I are thrilled to unveil Polygon, an hyperreal video platform for language learning. We've been excited by all the ways video could, but is not currently, being used. There's an extraordinary amount of context, information, and meaning waiting to be unlocked in every frame. Polygon is just the first version of what we have in mind for what's possible. Using the polygon video player, you can watch videos in foreign languages and understand more than ever before with interactive captions and text-to-speech processing. Just pause the video and click on a group of words in the frame or on the closed captions to make it come alive. You can also save snippets of uncovered language to your profile to reinforce your learning or to come back to the video at the right position. Moreover, we're welcoming creators who want to upload their own content and create libraries and curriculums of engaging videos for language learning. Just log into the app and visit the uploads page to apply. Polygon would not have been possible without our extraordinary supporters. We'd like to take a moment to thank @davefontenot and @lucy_guo for bringing us together (in taiwan!) to work on this, to @christina1cheng for her next-level design skills, to @estrax for an unrelenting stream of honest feedback, and to the entire HF0 family for encouraging us to dream and build. Don't hesitate to join our discord at https://discord.gg/5YD75HFTSe or email us at hello@polygon.video with any questions 🙂 Onwards!! 🚀🏋️‍♂️📺⚡

This is SOOOO cool. I'm a very visual person so having a really interactive way to learn languages is super effective for me. Way better than duolingo. Makes me feel like I'm actually walking around in tokyo, my favorite city. Plus gets me pumped to travel. Do you intend to add keyboard shortcuts?

Nice, I am into the idea of just watching videos of wandering around at a cool place and getting something out of it as well. Very unique concept, branding looks awesome.

@kunalsh23 and I will be hanging out in voice chat on our Discord channel all day today: https://discord.gg/5YD75HFTSe Feel free to drop by, say hello, and chat about anything! Any and all feedback is welcome :)

Learning Chinese back in the golden days, we sat in a classroom reciting words and phrases back to our teachers. Can imagine this app becoming a total game changer when it comes to interactively learning a new language with context to the environment. Watching you two hack this together has been so inspiring! Super excited to see where this all goes!

That's actually what I was looking for! I'll give it a try anytime soon. Congrats!@kunalsh23

Congrats on launching Polygon! @jonathan_xu & @kunalsh23 This is a crazy cool concept and I feel like I can finally learn Chinese much better than before 🤩 Plus, this is an amazing first step to demonstrating how AR can help people beyond just being a cool technology!