hey i built speakeasy, an ios app that converts any article url to audio. you paste a link (medium, substack, blogs, news, even twitter threads) and get natural ai audio in like 30 seconds.
built it bc i had 300+ articles saved in pocket that i never read. realised the problem wasnt time or discipline it was that reading requires ur eyes + hands which are always busy. ears tho? free like 90% of the time.
I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.
Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!
Pocket is dead. Instapaper is stagnant. Speechify wants $139/yr.
speakeasy is a different answer: paste any URL, get beautiful audio, listen instead of reading.
• Paste a URL → instant audio
• Beautiful, natural-sounding voices
• Saves and syncs across all your Apple devices
• Share from Safari in 2 taps
• Subscribe to newsletters and RSS feeds
• Multiple voices and playback speeds
Built for the articles you save but never get around to reading.
