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Show HN: NarrateNow – Add AI audio to any blog post with a single script tag

Hey HN,

I built NarrateNow after noticing a pretty consistent pattern: blog readers engage more when there's an audio option, but the barrier to adding it is either "record yourself" or "pay for an enterprise tool with a demo call."

Neither is realistic for an indie blogger or a small team running a content blog.

So I built the simplest version I could think of. You drop one line into your site's , and a floating audio player appears on every article automatically. No markup changes, no manual uploads, no config beyond that.

How it works technically: - JS snippet detects article content on page load - Text is sent to the backend and converted via TTS - Generated MP3 is cached in object storage and served via CDN - On repeat visits, audio loads instantly from cache

The whole integration takes about 60 seconds. I've kept the architecture intentionally simple.

Free tier: 5 articles/month, male voice, watermarked player — enough to actually test it on a real site before committing. Pro: $15/month for unlimited articles, both voices, and an unbranded widget.

Still very early. I'd genuinely appreciate signups from people willing to kick the tyres — especially if you run a blog with decent traffic, since I want to stress test this under real conditions.