Show HN: RegionCast – A crowdsourced audio guide for the world

Hi HN! I’ve been making an audio guide app for travelers of all kinds. Primarily it is intended for use on road trips, while biking, and on trains. It’s an audio guide app where users can submit text stories and we (I) will approve and narrate the story. Eventually the review process could be crowdsourced, but for now it is set up where each story is reviewed by me, the backend is set up to make the review and narration process as quick as possible.

I want to collect all kinds of interesting stories and make them available in the app. There are layers of hidden information and history all around us and I want to collect and bring them to life.

Types of posts I want to highlight are: interesting family histories, landmarks, lesser-known natural formations, ghost stories, funny stories, urban legends, lesser-known nature experiences, interesting infrastructure, homes where famous people have lived etc. Honestly anything interesting that might make a good audio story!

I am using AI to try and bootstrap some initial content, and most of it is in Austin, Texas and surrounding cities right now because that’s where I am based.

Here’s an example of a history-themed post: https://www.regioncast.com/cast/b7c26eb7-fb96-4cdb-b485-f7d5...

I would love some feedback, I have never launched anything before on my own and am kind of scared but I’ve been sitting on this for too long and need to just show someone so I can move onto another project if there is no interest.

Please let me know what you think and I am happy to answer questions!