About Harmar

Harmar is an AI subtitle tool for Armenian-language video. It transcribes Armenian speech — including the Russian and English words Armenians mix into it — times every word, and burns styled subtitles into a video that is ready to post to Instagram, YouTube or TikTok.

Team

Aram, founder of Harmar
Aram
Founder — product, engineering and design
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Aram is an Armenian founder based in Yerevan. He spent seven years building an online career from Spain — over 10,000 hours of freelance work on Upwork, an Amazon FBA brand, and then an AI automation practice — before moving his work back to the Armenian market full-time.

He publishes AI education in Armenian on YouTube and Instagram, and writes հAIերեն, the first AI newsletter in the Armenian language. Harmar came directly out of that: his audience kept asking for a subtitle tool that could handle how Armenians actually speak, and nothing on the market could.

Harmar is a solo build — the product, the app, the API and everything running behind them are his own work. He builds it in public, posting the process, the failures and the decisions as they happen.

Why it exists

Armenian is a low-resource language. The tools Armenian creators actually reach for — CapCut, Instagram's automatic captions, the wave of Whisper-based caption apps — either do not support Armenian at all, or support it badly enough that the output is not usable.

Code-switching is the harder half of the problem. Armenians do not speak Armenian in a clean stream: a sentence routinely carries Russian and English words inside it. Generic models transliterate those words into Armenian letters, or drop them, or invent something in their place.

So Armenian creators were typing their subtitles by hand, line by line, or publishing without any. Harmar was built for that gap specifically — tuned for Armenian from the start, rather than adapted from something that treats it as an afterthought.

The customers are Armenian-speaking creators, mostly between 20 and 35, publishing short-form vertical video. They work from a phone, they publish often, and subtitles are not optional for them — with muted autoplay, a video without subtitles is a video nobody finishes.

Creators

Individuals publishing to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok in Armenian.

Small teams and agencies

Studios and SMM teams producing Armenian video for clients at volume.

Developers

Teams that need Armenian speech-to-text with word-level timestamps inside their own product, via the HARMAR API.

The product

Harmar is a web app. A customer signs in with Google, uploads a video from their phone or laptop, and gets back a subtitled video. Nothing is installed and no one at Harmar touches the file.

  1. 01
    Upload

    The customer uploads a video in the browser. Mobile is the primary case — most of our users shoot and publish from a phone.

  2. 02
    Transcribe

    Harmar works out what was said and exactly when each individual word was spoken. A typical 60-second Reel is done in about one to two minutes.

  3. 03
    Edit and style

    A synced editor plays the video against the subtitles. Text, line breaks, timing and on-screen position are all editable, and a set of presets and fonts controls how the subtitles look.

  4. 04
    Export

    Harmar renders the subtitles into the video and returns a finished MP4 at the source quality. Paid plans can also download SRT and VTT files.

What the customer gets
  • Armenian speech with Russian and English kept in the script it was actually spoken in
  • Timing for every word, not one caption dumped over a whole sentence
  • A full editor, because automatic transcription is never perfect and the customer should be able to fix it
  • An optional second track: Armenian translated to Russian or English, or Russian and English translated to Armenian
  • Subtitle presets, custom fonts, per-moment positioning
  • A developer API for teams that want the transcription without the editor

How the business works

Harmar is a self-serve subscription SaaS. It is delivered entirely over the web, sold entirely online, and available worldwide to anyone who can sign in with a Google account. There is no sales call, no onboarding meeting, no manual step and no human in the loop between paying and using the product — a customer goes from landing page to a finished subtitled video without speaking to anyone.

Delivery
Web app, any modern browser, worldwide
Revenue
Recurring subscriptions, billed monthly or annually in Armenian dram (AMD)
Payments
Stripe Checkout, self-serve, cancel any time from the account page
Acquisition
Organic content, referrals and word of mouth — no outbound sales
Second product
The HARMAR API — usage-based, prepaid minutes for developers
Runs on
Vercel, Railway, Supabase, Cloudflare R2 and Google AI
Plans
Free0 ֏

5 minutes a month, videos up to 3 minutes, exports carry the Harmar logo.

Հարմար 103,000 ֏/mo

10 minutes a month, no logo, translation, priority export.

Հարմար 606,000 ֏/mo

60 minutes a month — roughly 30 to 60 videos.

Հարմար 25015,000 ֏/mo

250 minutes a month — roughly 125 to 250 videos.

Annual billing is twelve months for the price of ten. Live pricing and the full feature list are at harmar.ai/#pricing.

Company

Legal entity
Aram AI (Individual Entrepreneur / sole proprietorship)
Registered in
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Brand
Harmar — harmar.ai
Founded
2026

Harmar is built in Yerevan. For anything not answered here — partnerships, press, API access or support — email us and a person will reply.