I built a typing translator because copy-paste translation was killing my focus
Hey IH 👋
I'm a developer who works with international clients daily. My workflow used to look like this:
Type a reply in my language
Copy it
Switch to Google Translate
Paste, wait, copy the result
Switch back, paste, send
Repeat this 30+ times a day across Slack, email, and WhatsApp. It's not that each step is hard — it's the constant context switching that drains you mentally.
So I built InputTranslator — a Windows desktop app where you just type in any input field, press a hotkey, and your text gets translated and replaced instantly. No window switching. No copy-paste.
After using it myself for months, the biggest change wasn't productivity — it was that communicating in other languages stopped feeling like a chore.
Some details:
Works in any app (Slack, WhatsApp, email, browser — anywhere you can type)
Powered by AI translation APIs (DeepL, Google, OpenAI, etc.)
One hotkey to translate, one to translate and send
Already have paying users from Germany and Moldova
I'd love to hear your feedback. Have you experienced this same pain point?
