Personal audio library for Osho discourses that turned into a free web app used by hundreds of listeners.
Why I built it
I had a big folder of Osho discourses sitting on my local drive. Every time I switched phones, moving all those files was painful. Upload once, access from anywhere sounded better.
So I pushed the audio to GitHub, used an open source player, wrapped it with a thin custom shell, tweaked it to how I actually listen, and had something working in a few midnight hours. I was genuinely happy with how it turned out.
Sharing it
Thought it might help others too, so I posted on Reddit before going to sleep. Woke up to 200+ users and a lot of warm messages. That was unexpected.
rajneesh-live.github.io/library/explore
Numbers (last 90 days)
602 visitors, 12.9k page views, 28 min average session. People are not just landing and leaving.
Reddit still sends a good chunk of traffic. A lot of people come back direct too.
How it works
GitHub hosts the audio files. An open source web player does the playback. A small custom UI on top. PostHog for analytics.
It is also a PWA, so you can install it on your phone, tablet, or laptop and open it like a regular app. No app store needed.
No backend. No database. Just files and a player.
Features
What it's grown into since that first midnight version:
- Transcripts — full text of each discourse, synced to the audio.
- Media Offline — User can download the media on their device to listen to it when offline.
- Transcript-based search — search inside the actual words spoken, not just titles and tags, and jump straight to that moment in the audio.
- Bookmarks with comments — save a timestamp and write a note on why it mattered, so you can come back to it later.
- Reels/shorts — short clippable moments from discourses for people who want a five minute hit instead of an hour.
- Background music — most of the original recordings are very plain, so there's optional BGM with its own volume control to make long listens easier.
- Search bar — find a discourse by name or topic instead of scrolling through the whole library.
- English/Hindi filter — Osho spoke in both languages, so you can filter the library by language.
- Product analytics with PostHog — granular event tracking to actually understand what people listen to and where they drop off.