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Travelier
Curated ambient recordings from real places for focus
I've always worked better with ambient sound. Not music, not podcasts, just the sound of a place. The low hum of a café, the particular echo of a covered market, rain on a window somewhere in Southeast Asia. Travelier is a small site I built to collect those recordings. Each one comes from a real place, described in a way that tries to do justice to what makes it interesting. No accounts, no playlists, no "focus mode" toggles. You pick a place and you listen.
A few years ago I read something about how certain sounds help the brain settle into a working rhythm. Not silence, which can feel too sterile. Not music with lyrics, which competes for the same cognitive bandwidth you need to write or think. The sweet spot (for a lot of people) is ambient noise from a place. The specific, slightly chaotic texture of somewhere real.
There are a few apps and sites that do this, and they're useful. But most of them feel like productivity tools — branded with "focus" and "deep work" language, full of options, gamified in small ways. I wanted something simpler. Something that felt less like a feature and more like opening a window.
So I built Travelier. It's a small, curated collection of ambient recordings from real places. A café in Jerez where you can hear the Zumex machine turning oranges into juice at 9am. A beach somewhere in Southeast Asia. A covered market. Each place has a description that tries to capture what makes it worth listening to.
There are no accounts, no shuffle buttons, no streak trackers. You find a place, you put on headphones, and you're there — or at least somewhere adjacent to there.
It's a side project, built slowly and with care. I have no idea if it'll go anywhere, but it's been genuinely useful to me, and a few people I've shared it with have said the same.
If that sounds like something you'd use, give it a try: travelier.app. And if you have thoughts — or a place you'd want to hear on there — I'd love to know.
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About Travelier on Product Hunt
“Curated ambient recordings from real places for focus”
Travelier was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #40 on the daily leaderboard. I've always worked better with ambient sound. Not music, not podcasts, just the sound of a place. The low hum of a café, the particular echo of a covered market, rain on a window somewhere in Southeast Asia. Travelier is a small site I built to collect those recordings. Each one comes from a real place, described in a way that tries to do justice to what makes it interesting. No accounts, no playlists, no "focus mode" toggles. You pick a place and you listen.
Travelier was featured in Productivity (653.8k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 143.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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