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Nitro 4.0
Launched this week
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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Serand
Alconost Localization Lab
@rukhsar_amjad Thanks a lot!
That's a good question actually, context is often important for a good translation.
I suppose such decisions can be only made by a human - when preparing content for translation. I am judging from the point of view how a regular translation process in Nitro goes: because it's a self-serve platform, it's up to the customer how much info (screenshots, character limits if needed, terms and tone of voice) is given.
If often happens context is lacking, then Nitro translators leave a question, and if the customer replies to the question, the translator will tweak the translation accordingly.
Nobody's asked the boring one, which is what stops the agent spending. No account and pay per request means the only ceiling is whatever its MPP provider happens to allow, and an agent stuck in a retry loop on a job that keeps failing is an expensive thing to find out about the next morning. A cap you set on your side, per agent, would do more for adoption here than another language pair, because the person who actually authorised this isn't the agent, it's whoever owns the card behind it.
Glam AI
Alconost Localization Lab
@kristina__grits Nitro's sweet spot is shorter texts that still need to be right - ads, app updates (whole apps with light text are fine too), store copy, email sequences, UI strings, articles, press releases.
For big, complex localization projects with dedicated managers and workflows, that's what our parent company Alconost handles; Nitro is the fast, self-serve lane.
Alconost Localization Lab
If there's no account and the agent placed the order — where do the finished translations actually come back to?
Alconost Localization Lab
@ksenia_khauyk Good question if you're new to working with agents: everything comes back through the agent itself. You don't need to log in anywhere or go collect it - the agent that placed the order receives the finished translation and hands it back to you in the same flow. The whole exchange happens in one place.
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 ^__^
Aren’t you worried that AI could eventually make your service obsolete? Translation quality is already very good with AI, at least for the most widely spoken languages.
Alconost Localization Lab
@natalia_iankovych that's a good question. We do work with AI translations a lot at Alconost, and there are still many cases when you can't blindly trust AI translations - usually they require at least some kind of check and post-editing. The more high-stake content that is, the more serious and in-depth check it should be.
Nitro may need to pivot in the future and maybe offer native-speaker post-editing for AI translations, but in that case it should be worth it for the translators - they need decent pay for the efforts put into their work. So perhaps in case of post-editing there should be larger volumes, not "post-edit these 5 lines and get $0.80" or something - I'm making up figures but just to give you an idea.
As someone who's dealt with clunky localization vendors, skipping the account and API key setup entirely is honestly refreshing. I'd try this for a small app update just to see the turnaround time.
Alconost Localization Lab
@jusiy_waller Thanks for your support Jessica! Yes, a small app update is perfect to give it a try. I hope you like it and let us know your feedback! :)