TuneHop

Inspiration

We started from a simple gap: information keeps growing, but reading time doesn't. We wanted to fill that gap with listening.
Our goal is to enable effortless, sustainable daily catch-up on tech news for people who want to stay current without manual curation.

Fetches recent articles from topics selected during onboarding and generates short audio from summarized content.
Delivers daily so you can listen seamlessly in the app (supports background playback and lock-screen controls).
Lets you adjust topics and listen hands-free to stay up to date.

Frontend: Expo (React Native) + TypeScript + Expo Router. Smooth playback with react-native-track-player and our PlayerContext.
Backend: Convex-powered async pipeline for scraping, scripting, TTS, and storage. Firecrawl for article extraction; Convex Storage for audio.
TTS/Transcode: Gemini TTS to WAV or direct m4a via Cloud Run transcoder; stored as playable URLs.
Notifications: Daily action checks for new content within the last 24 hours and sends FCM push when available.

Balancing quality and latency across scraping → script → TTS while keeping the morning delivery window.
Platform differences for background playback, lock-screen controls, and player state handling on iOS/Android.
De-duplication across sources and safe concurrency (semaphores) for generation jobs.

End-to-end automated pipeline from RSS crawl to playable audio, persisted in Convex Storage.
Reliable daily content check with push notifications when new audio exists.
A listening-first mobile UX with background playback, seek, and rate control.

Centering the system on Convex simplifies async orchestration and data integrity.
Good scripts depend on extraction and prompt design more than raw length; evaluation criteria matter.
Audio UX quality is in the details: silence, normalization, intro/outro, queue control.

Smarter personalization of topics and de-duplication across feeds.
Offline listening and enhanced playback controls (e.g., smarter skip).
More natural voices and language handling via improved TTS prompts and voice choices.
Lightweight sharing to Slack/Discord and better source references in-app.

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