Commute Reads

Congrats on launching Commute Reads👍 Really interesting to know how you built it and why🙌 You should integrate Pocket to suggest Pocket articles based on commute duration 😄

👋 Hi, Product Hunters! My name is Damir Stuhec. I'm an iOS & Swift backend developer, and this is my first solo product launch on PH. 😅 💪 Challenge Past weekend I saw the provocative/inspiring tweet from @vanschneider about "The astonishing human potential wasted on commutes". It talks about how an average worker spends a total of ~220 hours = *9 days* commuting every single year. 😯 I commute a lot. And I know you do too. In the US alone, there are over 140 million workers commuting every workday. While commuting, I love reading all kinds of articles, but I've noticed that I often don't finish reading the article in time of arrival, which breaks the momentum and means that I probably won't go back to read the rest of it. 💡 Idea What if articles you read on commutes would be tailored to the duration of your commute? Allowing you to fully commit and actually finish reading the article in time. 🛠 Solution After seeing the tweet past weekend, I felt very inspired to build a small and simple app based on this idea. The app asks for your commute duration and suggests you hand-picked articles short enough for you to finish reading on your commute. It also offers a subscription, to receive fresh reading suggestions every workday morning, just in time for your commute. 🤗 Disclosure This is my side-project that I've built over the weekend and it's by no means a perfect or feature-complete product. That said, *I would love to hear what you think about it*! 🤓 Geek info The app is built entirely with Swift 3 & Vapor framework, so AMA regarding this if you're into that. -- I hope Commute Reads will make your time commuting at least a bit less "wasted". 😊