Hi everyone — Oscar here. I built Hilo because I'm a heavy podcast listener and a NotebookLM power user, and those two facts started fighting each other. I use NotebookLM constantly — to study for my diving certifications, to dig into something that came up at work, to learn whatever's caught my attention that week. But the audio is trapped in their app. I already have a podcast app I use every day, and I want the briefings to land there, next to the other shows I listen to. So I built Hilo: • You ask a question. • An agent does the research — reads, contrasts sources, finds what's known and what's contested. • It writes a briefing in storyteller register (first-person discovery, specific moments, no "today we'll discuss…"). One narrator who did the looking, not two AIs role-playing. • The audio lands in a private RSS feed you subscribe to in your existing podcast app — Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, whatever you use. A few things I tried to get right that aren't always obvious until you use it: • Quality is constant across tiers. Free gets the same voice and depth as Pro. The only lever between tiers is how many briefings per month. • Cross-episode memory on paid tiers. Hilo remembers what you've been into, so each briefing can build on the last. • Briefings, not deep dives. 10-15 minutes. Designed to orient you on a topic, not exhaust you. The free tier is 2 briefings/month — enough to try it and see if it fits your workflow before deciding if you want more. If you try it, the thing I'd love to hear: what topic you picked, and whether the briefing opened something you didn't expect.

Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. - NotebookLM-style audio briefs in your podcast app.

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