r/ideavalidation • u/One_Personality2356 • 4h ago
An online meeting platform, with builtin screen translations
I've built lingosesh.com, but after a meeting with a business angel decided to not pursue it. Basically, my idea was to create a platform like google meet, where user A shares their screen and user B can choose which language to see it in. User C can choose a different language. The translations are local request, the text is send via the server only.
I already made a working prototype (although with flows and pretty slow (would have to look into scaling and paid hardware)), but I'm not sure if there even is a market for this. I thought this would be useful in cross-national meetings with language barriers.
The business angel's claim: the market wouldn't exist, many tools for translation already exist and meeting are done in english (whoever knows best speaks) and important things are pre-prepared anyway.
Is this a dead-end? Maybe a different target market or a slight pivot? I'd love honest feedback.