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Michael Suen
@michaeljsuen1 · Co-Founder of Colony FM
Hi Product Hunt!
I’m a co-founder of www.colony.fm. We initially built Colony FM because we wanted to be able to listen to articles while on-the-go. We made a decision early on to have real people reading the articles, and things got off to a good start! As people began using it, we realized that a lot of people came to us with requests for pieces and webpa… See more
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Kat Manalac
@katmanalac · Partner, Y Combinator
Colony FM turns any webpage into audio narrated by real people. I've been wanting something like this to exist for a long time for my commute.
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Cool! How does this compare to something like Pocket Listen and Instapaper where both allow you to listen to saved articles?
Daniel Erickson
@techwraith · Director of Engineering – Eaze
Can I hook this up to my Pocket queue and request readings? There are some really good flows that you could do:
Single article flow:
1) Connect Pocket and list articles
2) Select an article to have recorded
3) See a queue of recorded articles
4) Play an article
5) Mark it as read (and optionally recommend through pocket)
Commuter/Work flow:
1) Connect Po… See more
Daniel F Lopes
@danflopes · I help build products faster @Whitesmith
Does anyone know what's their business model?
Having real people narrating it's awesome, but it seems costly. :)
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Michael Suen
@michaeljsuen1 · Co-Founder of Colony FM
Hi Product Hunt!
I’m a co-founder of www.colony.fm. We initially built Colony FM because we wanted to be able to listen to articles while on-the-go. We made a decision early on to have real people reading the articles, and things got off to a good start! As people began using it, we realized that a lot of people came to us with requests for pieces and webpa… See more