| Hello Folks, We’re the team behind Tales.so Over the past few days we’ve been hacking on Tales.so [1] - An AI podcast for all your books. Some features that we’re most excited about are — - AI podcasts for 10K+ books
- Choose b/w podcast styles, i.e. — single person, or 2 people podcast
- Evolving AI powered Book recommendations, based on your interests and listening history
- Book reading lists of successful people, e.g. Marc Andreessen's [2], Elon Musk's [3]
- Chat with Book Author AI Avatar
We used OpenAI, Claude, ElevenLabs, and the Cursor IDE to build this app up in just a few days. It’s astonishing how fast it came together.Why Tales.so? We were re-watching The Matrix and Chuck (TV Show) over the Thanksgiving break, and were struck by lightning when we saw the — “I know Kung-Fu moment” [4][5][6]. Thought, it might be cool and possible to build something similar, with AI at the helm. So, we built Tales.so for you to try it out. Where to next? A few ideas: - Crowdsourced podcast script editing, wikipedia style,
- Funny mode, interactive modes for each podcast
- Short videos to expand beyond Podcasts
Known Improvements —We’re going to dramatically improve the audio quality for the 2 people podcast in the coming week, but didn’t want to wait to show what we have already till then. We’d love to hear what you think! Arpit, Charvi [1] Web app — https://www.tales.so?ref=news.ycombinator.com [2] Marc Andreessen's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/marc-andreessen-book-recomme... [3] Elon Musk's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/elon-musk-book-recommendatio... [4] I Know Kung Fu (Matrix 1999) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrzgxUhnYjY [5] Chuck gets the intersect / First Flash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIO7L6ulmo [6] Chuck - I know Kung Fu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWciCU97bdQ |