Why We Built audiclip
It started with 500 unread Pocket articles.
Not clickbait. Not junk. Real, valuable articles — Paul Graham essays, Stratechery analyses, research papers colleagues recommended, newsletter editions from writers I genuinely admire.
I saved them because they mattered. I never read them because I didn’t have time. And every time I opened Pocket, I felt a wave of guilt that made me close it faster.
The Realization
One morning on the train, I listened to a podcast episode where two hosts discussed an article I had saved months ago. In 5 minutes of listening, I absorbed the key ideas better than I would have from 15 minutes of distracted reading.
The realization: I didn’t have a reading problem. I had a format problem.
I had plenty of listening time — 50 minutes of daily commute, 30 minutes of cooking, 20 minutes of walking. I just had no content to fill it with. My content was trapped in text format, requiring eyes and focus I didn’t have.
What We Built
audiclip bridges the gap:
- Save articles throughout the day (the easy, fun part you already do)
- AI generates a daily podcast overnight (two hosts discussing your saves)
- Listen the next morning during time you already had (commute, walk, gym)
The key decisions:
Two hosts, not one voice. A single voice reading text loses you in 3 minutes. Two hosts discussing ideas keeps you for 20. The second host asks the questions you’d ask.
Daily automated, not on-demand. If you have to manually generate each podcast, you won’t do it. The podcast just appears. Like a newspaper on the doorstep.
Standard RSS. Your podcast lives in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast — apps you already use. No new app to install.
100+ languages. Save in any language, listen in yours. The internet’s knowledge shouldn’t be gated by which language you read fastest.
The Result
My Pocket queue stopped growing. Not because I read everything — because I started hearing everything. The guilt cycle broke. Saving an article became productive, not procrastinating.
500 unread articles became a podcast I look forward to every morning.
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That’s the product. That’s why we built it.