Follow us on Twitter @poly_chat or you can DM me directly at @willports. Would love to hear your feedback!
What is Poly?
Poly is a universal chat room where regardless of what language you speak can communicate with people of all languages from around the world in real time.
Why I built Poly?
Poly is a side-project of mine I’ve been working on in my free time the past couple months. It all started when a podcast I was listening to raised the idea of 2 billion extra internet users in the next 10 - 15 years, due to advancements in low earth satellite technology. I thought amazing! But how are all these people going to be able to communicate with each other. Oceans used to separate us, now with the internet all that’s left is language.
So I thought surely Translation APIs by now would be strong enough for universal chat to be possible so I built Poly to test my hypothesis.
Community Guidelines
- Be friendly and respectful of others
- Your message could be translated into over 60 languages so try make it more interesting that just
testing 123
- Please no spam
- More coming soon!
What is Poly built in?
For those interested in the technical side.
- Node.js + Sails.js
- Socket.io
API:
- Microsoft’s Text Translation API
Find any bugs or have any feature ideas?
Please feel free to open up an issue https://github.com/dawilster/poly/issues if someone already hasn't
Follow us on Twitter @poly_chat or you can DM me directly at @willports. Would love to hear your feedback!