HashChat Blog
Notes on real-time AI translation.
Product thinking, comparisons, talks and field notes for people building conversations across languages. HashChat was formerly called Mingle.
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Talks, decks and product stories.
Slide decks from our talks and pitches, plus the story of how Mingle became HashChat and a live comparison of AI translators.
Exploring Business Opportunities for AI Wrapper Software
Case studies of AI wrapper businesses, and a strategy for what comes next.
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HashChat: the social network without language barriers
How Mingle became HashChat: a translated feed, profiles that show who you want to meet, and chats with a live interpreter built in, compared with LINE, WeChat, WhatsApp, HelloTalk, and more.
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Virtually: VTuber Live Streaming, Powered by Generative AI
From a single image to a live interactive broadcast.
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HashChat Pitch Deck: The Short Version
The chicken-and-egg problem of language exchange, and how live interpretation removes one side of it.
View the slidesHashChat Pitch Deck: A Voice Messenger Without Language Barriers
Why we are building HashChat, who it is for, and how a live interpreter grows into an AI-native social network.
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The AI Wrapper Business: Surfers Cohort 3 Edition
The first, longer version of our AI wrapper talk, given to Surfers Cohort 3.
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AI Translators Comparison
A practical table-first guide to price, platform coverage, language coverage, live captions, transcripts, automatic switching, background translation, and external app audio capture.
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