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AI · April 27, 2026

Elara

AI companions that talk back - face to face, on video.

Elara launched on April 27, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,315 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

What it does

Elara is a place to share your business ideas, pursuits & passions. Not with a chatbot but a face-to-face thinking partner. How it works: You record a short video message and your AI companion watches, thinks, and responds with their own video. You go back and forth at your own pace. Some conversations take minutes. Others unfold over weeks. No streaks. No gamification. No nudges. Just a space for the conversations that matter, the ones that deserve more than a text box.

Elara — a space to explore your ideas, pursuits, and passions, face-to-face.

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