ListenDock
turn blogs and PDFs into audio
Details
- External ID
- 47573478
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ListenDock
- Website domain
- listendock.com
- Launched
- March 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I've built a new feature to listen to blog posts. I also have an app, that's what I personally use to listen to audio while driving.I would love to get some feedback on the UX and whether this is useful for you!
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- convert written content into audio
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Extracting text from blog URLs (using Readability/Cheerio) and PDFs (via pdf-parse), feeding it into a TTS API (ElevenLabs or OpenAI Audio), and serving it in a web or mobile player is a textbook vibe-coding project.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google NotebookLM
Competitors
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Attention rank: #105 of 126 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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