Polygon is an interactive video player for language learning. Click on text and closed captions in the video to translate them, upload your own videos, save to your library, and accumulate snippets for a learning experience like none other!
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!! 🚀🏋️♂️📺⚡
@jonathan_xu@kunalsh23 Thanks guys! Debugging some errors with you was very fun and entertaining. Glad I was able to help with the product feedback. Polygon FTW!
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.
@the_esc It's great to hear you feel the same! This idea started when I was walking in the streets of Taiwan, wondering if it would be cool to read the signs and interact with them on my own terms.
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