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My Queue (Beta) — Listen to your favourite articles
Listen to your favourite articles. Save articles you want to read to your queue and listen to them on the go.
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@bustosandrew Haha, if we add Mr T as a celeb voice, we have to program it to add randomly 'I pity the fool' throughout the article ;)
@sander_crombach Congratulations on the launch. There is definitely a need for this but have seen attempts from Umano 6.0 (iOS) and Text to Podcast Extension by Podcastle. What are you doing differently, and how do you just sustain with article listening features? Listening.io also started with this idea but has now pivoted.
@indianidle Interesting and fair question. Umano was truly in a different era. And I don't know why listening.io has pivoted, why they changed their initial idea. We have our own roadmap and future plans that we trust, and we are going in a different direction than them. The timing is also different. In recent years we went from office, to staying at home, and now commuting again to work. Let alone, in the past months AI became more acceptable.
@eonpilot Hi André, for now it's free. And in the future we are thinking of a freemium model. That way it will always be free, but we will also offer additional features and services you can subscribe to.
@sander_crombach I'm so ready to starting using a product like this. But it would be awesome to know how you will position your self to stay in business before getting addicted 😬.
Others have tried to make similar services and so far none have stuck or were good enough IMO. My Queue seems very interesting! The voice is not top-notch, but good enough.
?makers when I'm done listening to an article… it just stays in the list. Could you automatically move it to an archive or mark it as read?
Also, I’d like to see a Firefox extension and the option to import articles from Instapaper (and maybe Pocket)
And a suggestion: let us create “playlists” or “queues” and show us how long it will take to listen to the entire playlist. Use case: I know I’ll be on the train for, say, 40 min. I create a playlist that lasts up to 40 min to listen while riding.
The best product that I saw last month on Product Hunt!
It is really helpful in daily life! 🤩
It appears like a must-need for anyone who wants to stay up to date with the latest news and articles while on the go!
I appreciate that level of dedication, and I'm curious to see how it will evolve and improve over time. Congratulations👏
This looks very useful and the first tests went super smoothly. I will put it through its paces later when I walk the dogs. But congrats on the launch, the product and website are looking great 🎉
@taig Hi Niklas, thank you for trying it out and for the compliment. Walking the dogs it exactly one of those moments when this product comes in handy. We are very curious how you experienced it. We are collecting feedback, so would be great if you could share that with us.
So cool, congrats! What sources do you support for audio content, and are there any plans to expand the range of content available on the platform in the future?
@irina_haupt Hi Irina, basically any article on the internet. But sometimes the generation of the audio story still goes wrong. So we can improve this still a lot. Another possibility is that we will add a feature to upload a PDF, but we are still investigating that.
@sander_crombach Interesting, I've become such a listening learner and this would be such a game changer for me :) Can't wait for what's to come!
@frida_lee When you try it out while commuting, please let us know how you experienced it. This way we can improve it over time.
@bionic_universe Thank you, let us know what you think after trying it out. We would love to learn from your experience.
@jacobsi Hi Jacob, those are good questions.
1. We are not sure yet, we are still in MVP mode. We first want to see if there is a need for a tool like this, that's why we added it as a beta on PH. If the validation of the idea is successful, we could think of a premium model in the future for uploading long reads, or a new feature where you can upload a PDF or Word document. We are still figuring this out.
2. Since we are an MVP, that is something we haven't decided on yet. First, we want to see if we should continue building this product.
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Hey Jacob, cool and relevant Qs indeed. I'll expand on the second question, we're currently permanently keeping them in the cloud, however, we have a maximum limit of 5 per user, however, you may delete and upload another. This is done to keep our costs down during free MVP period.
After that, we'll have to see how people are using this, but my guess now is that after a article is listened to, we will automatically remove the generated file from cloud, as I think we'll see that, unlike a music player, there will not be a lot of repeated listens of the same content.
@sander_crombach "First, we want to see if we should continue building this product." - lol good call :)
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