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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!
HN · launched Mar 30, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 1 view
Niche: text-to-speech reading apps · 69 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 69 launches in text-to-speech reading apps →
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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 257 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #238 of 258 (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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- NarrateNow · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Read while you listen to your Audiobooks · hn · 2026-09-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Bookify · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- in-media · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Epilude Narrator · ph · 2026-10-08 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Listen Tab · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- VocalDoc Pro · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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