tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
Details
- External ID
- 49083389
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
- Website domain
- tale.fyi
- Launched
- July 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 74
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8859020310633214
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
for decades, i have been concerned that the internet was being built around non-fiction, so i built something to show how we could celebrate great fiction on the web.i started with an amazing library from the public domain, and i also added tools to add your own storiessuper interested to hear any feedback, and if you read anything good!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- publishing platform for fiction
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A fiction publishing platform with public domain literature imports and user story authoring is a classic CMS and reading UI with standard CRUD workflows.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: storywatch.org, SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity (web fiction communities)
Concerns raised: Mobile: scrolling stops audio and doesn't resume at correct position, Mobile: long paragraphs don't auto-scroll when reading + listening, Mobile: can't click into specific sentence to resume from there, Audio narration can be monotonous for some books, Difficult to track which line is currently being read aloud
Feature requests: Highlight current line being spoken or auto-scroll to it, Ability to click/tap into specific sentence to resume playback from there, Manual dark/light mode toggle (theme switching beyond system preference)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.
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- HN Game Stories · hn · 2026-06-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hacker Fables · hn · 2026-07-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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