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Copycat Cafe
Learn your next language by copying native speakers
Most language apps teach you to recognize words. Copycat Cafe teaches you to speak them. Watch real conversations with voices cloned from native speakers, copy what they say with AI scoring your pronunciation 0-100%, then chat freely with an AI that corrects you without judgment. 15 minutes a day. French and Spanish, more languages coming. Built by two people who read every email. 1,000+ paying learners, $16k MRR.
Most language apps train you to recognize words. Ours trains you to speak them.
We kept hearing the same story from learners: five years on Duolingo, streak in the hundreds, then they walk into a bakery in Paris (or a café in Madrid) and freeze when someone speaks to them. They understood fine, they just couldn't get a word out in response.
So we rebuilt the app I'd been running solo for a decade around how humans actually learn to talk. Babies don't conjugate, they copy.
The Copycat Method takes about 15 minutes a day:
Watch a real conversation with the text not visible at first. Ears before brain.
Copy each line out loud. AI scores your pronunciation word by word, so you know exactly which sounds need work.
Chat with an AI cat coach to use what you just copied in a real conversation, where the only thing judging you is the score.
What you get out of it: you stop freezing when a native speaker turns to you, your accent stops sounding foreign, and your pronunciation scores climb from around 60% to 90%+ on lines you've copied a few times.
We're at $16k MRR with 1,000+ paying learners. French and Spanish today, with German and Italian on the way and iOS coming too. No VC, no growth team. Just two people who read every email.
Two things I'd genuinely love your take on:
If you've tried language apps before, what made you quit?
What would convince you that an app could actually get you speaking, not just understanding?
Nur and I are here all day. Bring the hard questions.
PS: Code PH30OFF gets you 30% off the annual plan for the next 60 days.
About Copycat Cafe on Product Hunt
“Learn your next language by copying native speakers”
Copycat Cafe was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 52 upvotes and 26 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Most language apps teach you to recognize words. Copycat Cafe teaches you to speak them. Watch real conversations with voices cloned from native speakers, copy what they say with AI scoring your pronunciation 0-100%, then chat freely with an AI that corrects you without judgment. 15 minutes a day. French and Spanish, more languages coming. Built by two people who read every email. 1,000+ paying learners, $16k MRR.
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Benjamin Houy
Hey Product Hunt!
Most language apps train you to recognize words. Ours trains you to speak them.
We kept hearing the same story from learners: five years on Duolingo, streak in the hundreds, then they walk into a bakery in Paris (or a café in Madrid) and freeze when someone speaks to them. They understood fine, they just couldn't get a word out in response.
So we rebuilt the app I'd been running solo for a decade around how humans actually learn to talk. Babies don't conjugate, they copy.
The Copycat Method takes about 15 minutes a day:
Watch a real conversation with the text not visible at first. Ears before brain.
Copy each line out loud. AI scores your pronunciation word by word, so you know exactly which sounds need work.
Chat with an AI cat coach to use what you just copied in a real conversation, where the only thing judging you is the score.
What you get out of it: you stop freezing when a native speaker turns to you, your accent stops sounding foreign, and your pronunciation scores climb from around 60% to 90%+ on lines you've copied a few times.
We're at $16k MRR with 1,000+ paying learners. French and Spanish today, with German and Italian on the way and iOS coming too. No VC, no growth team. Just two people who read every email.
Two things I'd genuinely love your take on:
If you've tried language apps before, what made you quit?
What would convince you that an app could actually get you speaking, not just understanding?
Nur and I are here all day. Bring the hard questions.
PS: Code PH30OFF gets you 30% off the annual plan for the next 60 days.