WorkFuture You
ShippedInsight LabsFuture You — making an onboarding payoff worth paying for
Personalised AI audio
- Role
- Primary developer
- Period
- Apr – Jun 2026
- Client
- Insight Labs
- Status
- Shipped
Future You takes what someone tells it during onboarding and reflects it back as generated audio — stories, affirmations, journaling prompts. The product promise is the reveal at the end of onboarding, which means the generation pipeline is the product, not a feature of it.
Highlights
- MVP to paywalled release in ~2 months
- Generation pipeline rebuilt across four architectures
- Subscription plus virtual-currency monetisation
On the App Store
From the Future You App Store listing — Insight Labs' artwork.
- Expo
- React Native
- Supabase
- RevenueCat
- ElevenLabs
Four goes at the pipeline
The story generation pipeline went through four architecture iterations, each written up as a decision record. The pressure was cost: generated audio is expensive per user, so generation had to be deferred until there was a paying subscription behind it, and the expensive steps had to sit server-side where they could be gated and metered.
Monetisation with two currencies
A subscription unlocks the product; a virtual currency prices the individually expensive actions, like refining a generated story. The premium check is enforced server-side, so a modified client cannot trigger generation it has not paid for.
The player
Audio needed to be a real player, not a play button — background playback, read-along text synced to the narration, and a refine flow that regenerates a piece the listener did not like.
Stack
- Expo + TypeScript, React Native, iOS-first
- Supabase edge functions for generation orchestration
- Multiple model and text-to-speech providers behind one interface
- RevenueCat for subscriptions, enforced server-side
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