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Aeva
Chat in your language. They read it in theirs.
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Chat in your language. They read it in theirs.
2 followers
Aeva is a messenger where each person writes and reads in their own language. Messages translate both ways as they arrive; voice notes are transcribed, translated and spoken in a natural voice. 22 languages. iPhone and web, Android soon. Credits, no subscription.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Anton, indie developer from Ukraine, living in Newfoundland, Canada.
Honestly, I didn't build Aeva for "users" at first. I built it for my team. We all came to Canada around the same time, guys from different countries. One from Brazil, speaks Portuguese. One from Algeria. Me from Ukraine. For all of us English is a second language. We all speak it pretty good, everyone on his own level, but still. Talking in your native language is a different thing. Jokes, small details, how you feel about something, a lot of it just gets lost.
So I made a chat where everybody writes in his own language and reads in his own language. I write in Ukrainian, my Brazilian friend reads it in Portuguese, he answers in Portuguese and I read it in Ukrainian. No translate button, nothing to copy-paste. Every message is translated when it arrives, both ways. Voice messages too, you can listen to them in your language, in a natural voice. The original is always one tap away.
And it really solved my problem. We were friends before, but after this the barrier just disappeared. We started to understand each other much better, like really feel each other. That was the main goal and it worked.
Then other people started using it. Including couples who met on dating apps, because it's the same barrier. When you can talk natively, it's just a much nicer conversation.
About money, honest: translation costs real money for every message, so Aeva works on credits, no subscription. New accounts get free credits. The cost is shared between the one who sends and the one who reads. And if your credits are over, your message still goes through.
22 languages, on iPhone and web (beta-aeva.com). Android is ready too, but it's still in closed testing, so not public yet.
Question for you: did you ever have a friend, a colleague or a partner without a shared language? What was the hardest thing to get across? I'm here all day, ask me anything.