Hark News

Hey PH Community! This is Sara, 17 y/o dev from California. I made Hark News after I realized how much easier it would be to listen to my articles instead of reading them on my tiny phone screen. Here's just a bit more info: Why should you use Hark News? - Car radio only provides you with basic news, but you want to hear more on a specific topic - You have a ton of open tabs because you haven’t been able to finish, or even start reading, certain articles - Your vision is deteriorating from spending too much time reading on your phone - You’re learning a new language. Being able to listen to articles will help improve listening skills. - Your 2018 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION was: Read more! What will you see in the next update? - Show the entire article so you can read along while listening (for those learning languages) - Language support (currently only English) - Nicer-sounding TTS voice - UX Improvements & more Hark News is $0.99 on the app store, but this cost will cover all future updates (you're paying less than a dollar to start reading more/keeping up with the news in 2018!). Currently the app is in its most basic state, but there will be a lot more features coming shortly :D Subscribe here (http://eepurl.com/dgvxGX) for updates on features.

I was shocked to see how many upvotes this unoriginal product hunt submission received. I use pocket daily to listen to my articles, and it's the easiest tool ever to use, you can add any article or document to pocket seamlessly by using the share button on your iPhone, on top of instantly tagging the articles as well. This seems like a really crappy way to make money by stealing someone else's product. If the voice was an actual person

or potentially ANY OTHER voice but Siri integration why in the hell would ANYONE pay for this?!

Pros:

Nice interface

Cons:

Overpriced, and unoriginal

I think Pocket integration would be great. Just podcastify every article in my pocket.

Awesome! Been wanting something like this for a while. I've tried a few products like this that unfortunately sounded super robotic when reading articles, and I couldn't get over it. Any way you could provide a youtube snippet here of what the voice sounds like, so people can listen before paying on the App Store? I would totally pay the $0.99 for this if it does a good job.

Bought and Downloaded. recommend develop an browser extension in ios and macos to add websites faster and easier.

I've been saying this needs to exist for a long time and have thought about it a bit. So glad to see someone implement it (and implement it well)! I downloaded it and tried it. Very nice :) Have a couple suggestions (that you've probably already thought of): - As a mobile app, having the user input a url is pretty awkward—I don't know what's possible, but of course it would be great to find a way to integrate with Safari (and eventually Apple News --> it didn't recognize an Apple News url); how does Pocket save stuff, for example? You could do similar. - Totally get that using the standard voice is the quickest way to get to an MVP—I see that you plan to have a unique voice eventually :) I also think a DuoLingo type approach could be interesting, where people could contribute by recording themselves reading the hottest stories of the day. Users could choose who they'd prefer to listen to and maybe even subscribe to certain voices. I'm not sure if copyright or anything starts to become an issue then... Keep going! This is a needed thing in the world, and I will keep it on my phone to watch for updates :)

For an MVP this app is great, from a design and development standpoint, and you can tell that it has the foundations to become much more.

Pros:

Clean, simple interface, easy to use, well-made app

Cons:

None, looking forward to future updates