Volume

Listen to startup and tech focused Medium stories

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Listen to startup and tech focused Medium stories

5 followers

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Very cool, although I wonder if there are legal issues with this. Also check out Play (for Medium), a Chrome extension that reads Medium articles.

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10yr ago

@rrhoover Agree there might be legal issues. You might need to carefully read Medium's terms and policy to confirm that.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover Play was definitely an inspiration for me to take the app in a different direction than originally planned.

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10yr ago

Narro

@rrhoover Also may want to check out https://www.producthunt.com/post... which is still growing!

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10yr ago

Ghost Pepper 🌶️

This is great, I've been listening to stories on Instapaper for a while. @gavindinubilo how did you get the web app to continue playing even when the lock screeen is on? Is that a media type you can define in the HTML?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@matthartman hey Matt! Thanks for the kind words. I just used the default js audio API for playing (did a similar thing with Songfari) and safari will add media controls. One thing I wish they'd add though is being able to set custom data for the media screen.

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10yr ago

Great idea here 👍 Just a suggestion ☝️, I think you should add an option to choose the type of voice you want to hear 🗣 because this one can be little un-friendly when listening to many articles.

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10yr ago

Re:amaze

Maker

@matthieudeluze I'd love to do something like that, but unfortunately it would end up being incredibly expensive to do.

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10yr ago

Narro

@matthieudeluze You would probably love that option on https://narro.co

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10yr ago

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Maker

Hey Hunts! Volume is a website and iOS app (I'm sorry Android, maybe soon) that curates startup and tech stories posted to Medium and turns them into audio. I've found them perfect to listen to on my way to work. The reason I built this is because I love reading Medium but recently I haven't had enough time in my schedule to read through them, so I made an app to read it to me. Let me know what you think!

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10yr ago