JollyTango
The world’s first real-time audio travel guide
This is one of those moments where it all feels special, no matter how many times I test this scenario.
While simulating JollyTango on a transatlantic route, the app identifies the location of the Titanic wreck site with almost pinpoint accuracy — and begins to narrate the story as you’re passing near it.
I’m obviously not surprised since this is how it’s supposed to work. But seeing it happen exactly as imagined still feels pretty special!
I’m super excited that this app will be out in the wild in just a couple of weeks — and hopefully being used by curious travelers getting to experience both famous and remote places around the globe right as they're passing them by!
🎧 Here’s the Titanic moment: https://youtube.com/shorts/RomzJ78DlyM
Launching November 12
Pre-order → https://jollytango.com/get
Hello everyone — since my first post about JollyTango’s upcoming launch, I’ve received several questions from people wanting to learn more about the app.
To make it easier, below is a short audio clip that walks through JollyTango’s core features and overall experience: https://jollytango.com/assets/JollyTango-Overview-2.mp3
Hope you find it helpful!
Feel free to post any questions or curiosities about the app, and I’ll be happy to respond.
If you’d like early access before the public release, just leave a comment requesting access, and I’ll send you an invite via Apple TestFlight. (The Android version should be ready in about a week.)
Thank you!
I've always been that person staring out the plane window wondering about the towns below—what's their history, what do people do there, what's it like to live there? On road trips, I'd see signs for towns I'd never visit and wish I could just know something about them as I passed.
But I couldn't find anything that just told me about places as I passed them in real time.
So I built JollyTango. I spent the past eight months working on it full-time, and it launches October 30th on the App Store and Google Play Store. The hard part wasn't the audio or the GPS—it was orchestrating everything to work seamlessly across flights, cars, trains, cruises, and walking tours while being smart about battery life and context. It needed to know when to talk, when to be quiet, and how to adapt what it says based on your speed, location, and interests.
I've loved building this thing, and I'm hoping it clicks with people who are curious about the world around them.
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I’ve had moments on long flights where I wanted the same kind of deeper context, so your idea hits home. On the travel side, I’ve also used https://travelbusinessclass.com to snag cheaper business-class seats, which made those window-gazing trips way more doable. If your app grows, people booking premium flights for comfort might love pairing it with something that adds meaning to the journey
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Hey, thanks for your reply. Yes, pairing makes sense.
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Just checked your app — good quality and clean UI! 👏 I'm working on a location-based live video app for real-time hotel/beach checks. How did you get your first 50 users? Struggling with that myself.
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Glad you liked the app UI! We certainly put a lot of effort in crafting it. As for finding the first 50 users, taping into your beta testers is certainly a good start.
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I’ve run into the same issue—finding cool, flexible places to work and stay in new cities is way harder than it should be. Love how you made something from that frustration.
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Thank you
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That’s such a cool idea. I always wonder about the same thing when I travel.
I love how JollyTango turns that curiosity into something you can actually hear in real time.
I’m building something smaller called rankiwiki.com, and reading this reminds me why side projects that make people see the world differently are worth doing.
Wishing you a great launch on the 30th!
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Thanks so much, really appreciate it. Wishing you all the best with your project!
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Hey can you say a bit more about how it works? Do you read out articles or something from every place? Or how is it working?
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Hey, it doesn’t read existing articles. The app generates custom audio narration every few minutes by combining its own curated content with LLMs, along with local photos, news, and weather based on your location and interests.
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I couldn’t find it so I built it sounds like a beginning of a great story. Something similar happened to me in the past year and I’m actually also about to launch end of the month 🙂
It sounds like a pretty cool idea, how does it work in terms of content filling? The idea is that users will fill it so eventually you have all places around the world?
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That’s awesome — congrats on your upcoming launch! In my case, the content isn’t user-generated. The app combines its own curated material with LLM-based data and narration, local photos, news, and weather, and automatically plays new stories every few minutes based on where you are and what you’re interested in.
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How does it work, like you press a button and gives you a Wikipedia summary of your current location?
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The app goes well beyond Wikipedia. It automatically plays location-specific audio narration every few minutes by running a series of logic steps to combine data from several internal and external sources.
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Sounds great. Will try.
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Sure, send me your email and I will provide you access via Apple TestFlight. If you’re on Android, I should have external access ready in a week.
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Sounds like a lot of effort and edge cases were covered! Hope people like it!
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Thank you! I hope so too 🤞
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Sigma moment
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