I built an AI audio storytelling platform for 600M Hindi speakers — from a small town in Maharashtra, while working a day job

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Six months ago, I was sitting in my room in Wada — a town most people outside Maharashtra have never heard of — listening to Neelesh Misra on my phone.

If you don't know Neelesh Misra: he's the reason millions of Indians fell in love with storytelling again. Slow, emotional, deeply human narratives on late-night radio. No rush. No clickbait. Just a voice, and a story that felt like it was written for you.

I've been listening since 2016. And somewhere in 2024, I asked myself a stupid-simple question:

Why can't anyone create that? Not just consume it.