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Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea.
NotebookLM-style audio briefs in your podcast app.
Hilo turns a question into a 10-15 minute audio briefing in your existing podcast app. Feed your curiosity! Your podcast app, not ours. Private RSS feed. No new player to learn. Briefings, not deep dives: 10-15 min orientations, designed to fit in a commute.
Hi everyone — Oscar here.
I built Hilo because I'm a heavy podcast listener and a NotebookLM power user, and those two facts started fighting each other.
I use NotebookLM constantly — to study for my diving certifications, to dig into something that came up at work, to learn whatever's caught my attention that week. But the audio is trapped in their app. I already have a podcast app I use every day, and I want the briefings to land there, next to the other shows I listen to.
So I built Hilo:
• You ask a question.
• An agent does the research — reads, contrasts sources, finds what's known and what's contested.
• It writes a briefing in storyteller register (first-person discovery, specific moments, no "today we'll discuss…"). One narrator who did the looking, not two AIs role-playing.
• The audio lands in a private RSS feed you subscribe to in your existing podcast app — Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, whatever you use.
A few things I tried to get right that aren't always obvious until you use it:
• Quality is constant across tiers. Free gets the same voice and depth as Pro. The only lever between tiers is how many briefings per month.
• Cross-episode memory on paid tiers. Hilo remembers what you've been into, so each briefing can build on the last.
• Briefings, not deep dives. 10-15 minutes. Designed to orient you on a topic, not exhaust you.
The free tier is 2 briefings/month — enough to try it and see if it fits your workflow before deciding if you want more.
If you try it, the thing I'd love to hear: what topic you picked, and whether the briefing opened something you didn't expect.
About Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. on Product Hunt
“NotebookLM-style audio briefs in your podcast app.”
Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #69 on the daily leaderboard. Hilo turns a question into a 10-15 minute audio briefing in your existing podcast app. Feed your curiosity! Your podcast app, not ours. Private RSS feed. No new player to learn. Briefings, not deep dives: 10-15 min orientations, designed to fit in a commute.
On the analytics side, Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. competes within Education, Artificial Intelligence and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea.?
Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. was hunted by Oscar Swanros. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hilo — Pull on the thread of an idea. including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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