Location Station — AI audio local + global news (equity-only, pre-funding)
Building a hyper-local, AI-personalized audio news app. Daily spoken briefing with detailed follow-ups + convai; publishers paid by attention minutes (incl. conversational minutes via explicit citations). Potential patent around multilevel provenance chains. Think Spotify AI DJ meets Apple News.
Looking for:
Technical cofounder (LLM/audio + mobile): prod LLM/audio, streaming, evals, retrieval, latency/cost tuning. Stack: Node/TS, AWS, DynamoDB, OpenAI Assistants, ElevenLabs; mobile: Kotlin/Android, iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), React (web); ffmpeg multitrack mixing; HLS/WebRTC.
Non-technical cofounder (content/revenue): newsroom/media operator; publisher sourcing, licensing, payouts, GTM for SF + North Bay.
Status: prototype components running; 10-min demo slice; early publisher outreach.
Terms: pre-funding, significant equity-only; remote-friendly (PT), Bay Area plus.
Email: david at locationstation dot net.
Looking for:
Technical cofounder (LLM/audio + mobile): prod LLM/audio, streaming, evals, retrieval, latency/cost tuning. Stack: Node/TS, AWS, DynamoDB, OpenAI Assistants, ElevenLabs; mobile: Kotlin/Android, iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), React (web); ffmpeg multitrack mixing; HLS/WebRTC.
Non-technical cofounder (content/revenue): newsroom/media operator; publisher sourcing, licensing, payouts, GTM for SF + North Bay. Status: prototype components running; 10-min demo slice; early publisher outreach. Terms: pre-funding, significant equity-only; remote-friendly (PT), Bay Area plus. Email: david at locationstation dot net.