Playtext's website (playtext.app) now redirects to a different site, as of our check on 22 October 2026.
Playtext – Turn articles into audiobooks and read 2x faster was posted to Show HN on 2023-05-18, at playtext.app. The domain now redirects to a different site. The product may have moved, rebranded or been sold.
We don't know from this record whether the product still operates, what it charged, or, if it's gone, why. Across the whole register, 22% of launches whose status we could settle are gone.
What the check recorded: redirects (-> playtext.com), at https://playtext.app.
The original Show HN post · Report a correction — a domain can vanish while a product moves or rebrands, and stay up after it shuts down.
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How we know. Show HN and Product Hunt entries are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it has shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server that answers 404 is one somebody still pays for. Y Combinator entries use the status YC itself publishes (active, inactive, acquired or public), which is why only those can say acquired or public. Search the whole register.