tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
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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!
HN · launched Jul 28, 2026 · 74 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: digital publishing and reading platforms · 122 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 122 launches in digital publishing and reading platforms →
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 : 254 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 255 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.
- Jothable · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I worked on a sci-fi book for the 2025 · hn · 2026-01-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- StoryNest, a site for writers · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FictionClash · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- StoryScape · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- storycast · github · 2026-09-24 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read · hn · 2025-12-29 · 134 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Opening lines of famous literary works · hn · 2026-07-14 · 183 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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