One group.
Everyone's language.
A group shouldn't fall apart just because its members speak different languages. Kapota lets people take part in direct and group conversations across languages, so travelers, newcomers and local communities can stay in the same conversation instead of splitting into the ones who can follow it and the ones who can't.
Translation is included for personal accounts.
Same conversation, different languages.
Everyone writes in the language they are comfortable using. Other people in the conversation can follow it across languages, in theirs. Nobody has to agree on a shared language first, and nobody has to sit quietly through a conversation they can't read.
It works the same way in a direct message and in a group. A reply written in one language can be read in another, so the thread stays one thread.
One guide. 10 travelers. 6 languages. One conversation.
Built for people who actually meet.
Mixed-language groups are ordinary. A travel group working out where to eat, newcomers joining something local for the first time, an international student group, a hiking or activity group whose members grew up in different places, a guide trying to keep ten people together for a day.
In each of those, the group already exists. What usually breaks is the conversation around it, and what breaks it is not disinterest. It is that participating fluently is harder for some people than others, so they stop participating.
Those situations are illustrations of the problem, not descriptions of existing Kapota customers. Groups are a personal capability, so this is about people, not businesses. Business accounts on Kapota do not have Groups.
Language shouldn't decide who gets included.
Kapota is proximity-first. It helps you discover and connect with people, groups and local activity around the place you are actually in. Translation is what keeps those connections going once they exist, when the people in them don't share a language.
The two halves need each other. Proximity without a shared language gets you a room full of people you can't talk to. Translation without proximity gets you a conversation with someone you will never meet.
You decide whether you appear in Discovery at all. Appearing there requires a completed profile, and you can turn discovery off in Settings. You can still use Kapota without appearing there, including viewing Pulse, finding and redeeming local deals, and using business loyalty.
Being near someone does not open a message thread either. Connections are mutual, and direct messaging opens after a connection request is accepted. Discovery shows you who is around. You still decide who you talk to.
Go somewhere new.
Stay in the same conversation.
Anywhere you go, you're a local. That is easier to mean when the people around you can understand what you said, and you can understand them back.
Explore Kapota for You to see how nearby discovery, groups and local activity fit together.