Listening-first roadmap Updated monthly

Kahani Suno product roadmap

Building a calmer, more personal way to follow audio universes. Track what ships next, where we are investing, and how your feedback fuels each milestone.

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Focus now Performance & stability

Hardening uploads, background sync resilience, and cache reliability for consistent playback across devices.

Next sprint Discovery

Smarter recommendations, inline episode previews, consistent cross-page filters, and improved tagging UX.

On deck Profiles & sync

Profile insights, cross-device sync, collaborative playlists, and privacy-first controls.

Top priorities
  • Reliability fixes: improved background sync, resumable uploads, and more resilient waveform caching.
  • Listening & discovery: inline previews, improved search relevance, and quick actions for bookmarks.
  • Community & transparency: founding listener roundtables, a voting board for feature ideas, and clearer monthly updates.
Improvement strategy

Three pillars guiding upcoming work

Every sprint balances foundational fixes with audience-facing wins so AudioStream stays dependable while feeling fresh.

01

Platform stability

Focus on API hardening, smarter error handling, and monitoring that catches playback and sync regressions before they reach listeners.

  • Database connection pooling and automated failover drills
  • Progressive uploads with resumable Drive support
  • Waveform generation queue with alerting when stalled
02

Discovery excellence

Help people surface the right worlds faster with smart filters, contextual metadata, and cues on what to play next.

  • Unified search relevance tuning using listener history
  • Editorial spotlights and genre deep-dives refreshed weekly
  • Episode summaries with AI-assisted key moments
03

Listener delight

Deliver features that make the app feel personal — responsive theming, cross-device continuity, and more agency over privacy.

  • Private session controls and local-only listening safeguards
  • Milestone badges and streaks to celebrate progress
  • Collaborative playlists for friends and creator spotlights
Milestone view

What we are shipping next

Dates are targets. We publish updates monthly and highlight anything slipping so you always know what changed.

Now

Reliability uplift (November 2025)

Rolling out improved background sync, repairing stale cache layers, and smoothing the upload-to-publish flow — with better diagnostics and retry-safe behavior for creators.

  • New diagnostics dashboard with real-time ingest & background sync status
  • Retry-safe metadata edits for authors and admins
  • UI polish for Explore & Library hero readability and reduced visual clipping
Next

Discovery enhancements (December 2025)

Smarter filtering, cross-page search continuity, and fresh ways to preview a series before you commit.

  • Quick filter presets synced across Explore and Library
  • Inline episode previews with transcripts and chapters
  • Personalized genre suggestions powered by listening streaks
Q1 2026

Profiles & sync

Launch private cloud sync for premium listeners alongside richer profile stats and milestone badges.

  • End-to-end encrypted sync between desktop and mobile
  • Listening insights dashboards with weekly recaps
  • Creator collaboration spaces for sharing drafts securely
SOON

Upcoming upgrades & fixes

Items we intend to ship in coming cycles to improve monetization and reliability.

  • Premium package: launch a paid tier for an ad-free listening experience and premium features.
  • Player improvements: audio player upgrades for networking, better scrubbing, and more fidelity settings.
  • Explore hero CTA (light mode): visual & accessibility fixes to ensure the CTA looks correct in light theme without changing the existing behavior or layout.
  • Search improvements: fix indexing, relevance, and cross-page continuation issues.
  • Forgot password flow: reliability & UX improvements to reduce bounce and help users recover accounts smoothly.
Later

Community & monetization

Support for creator memberships, curated live listening events, and in-app tipping tools.

  • Creator storefronts with bundle pricing and promo codes
  • Shared listening rooms with synchronized playback
  • Audience polls and Q&A modules for episodic feedback
Fix-forward log

Near-term fixes already queued

Bug squashes and polish items coming in the next two cycles while the larger milestones bake.

Listening experience

  • Trim silence smartly on long-form episodes without clipping music beds; fix edge-cases where intro/outro music could be damaged.
  • Mini-player accessibility review with better keyboard focus states.
  • Waveform zoom for precise scrubbing on desktop and tablets; fix broken zoom rendering and clamp long waveforms to avoid overflow.

Creator tooling

  • Bulk tag editing with validation hints for common metadata gaps.
  • Episode version history so you can roll back a mistaken upload.
  • Drive ingestion watchdog that emails when source audio is missing.

Community feedback

  • Quarterly founding listener roundtables with published summaries.
  • Voting board for feature ideas with transparent status updates.
  • Opt-in beta channel for early access to experimental players.

Platform & auth

  • Fix Forgot Password flow and strengthen email deliverability.
  • Search bug fixes, index tuning, and improved cross-page continuity.
  • Player network error handling and reliability improvements.
Help shape the future

Your questions and ideas direct what ships next

We listen closely to founding listeners. Share a wish-list item, report a snag, or volunteer for usability tests.

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