We Tackled a Real, Annoying Little Problem and Built a Simple Tool for Everyone.
Let me share a quick story with you all.
After we launched ListenHub back in May, we quickly hit 10,000 registered users.
Among them, our oldest user was an elderly gentleman from the United States.
One day, he stumbled upon ListenHub online but couldn't quite figure out how to use it. He emailed me to ask if we had a tutorial.
My first thought was, "A tutorial? I never even considered writing one for ListenHub—it's just so simple!"
It was a humbling reminder: a product that seems dead simple to us in the AI world can still feel overwhelmingly complex to the real world.
So, I replied to his email, "We don't have one yet, but I'm writing one right now. I'll send it over as soon as it's done."
I immediately opened Notion and, with an 80-year-old user in mind, wrote the simplest, most straightforward tutorial of my life. Then, I sent it off to him.
We exchanged a few more emails, and I gradually learned his story.
He enlisted in the army in 1957, which would make him well into his 80s today.
Years of living with pulmonary fibrosis and several strokes had taken away his ability to speak.
But that didn't stop him. He started an online support community for fellow patients that has grown to tens of thousands of members.
He uses ListenHub as his own personal "voice," generating audio content with AI to share with his community and help others.
This is the essence of building products: helping real people.
Podcasts are great, but they're just one of many ways to express yourself.
That’s when we decided to build a universal AI voice—something that could create podcasts, perform comedy, deliver speeches, or read novels.