Viewing profile — jspizziri

There's a really awesome site called Librivox [1], where volunteers narrate books that are in the public domain. Those recordings are also in the public domain as well (this is jus…

Since there's been a reasonable amount of traffic due to this comment, I thought I'd leave a 50% coupon ($11.75 for yr one) for HN folks in case anyone is interested: http://app.so…

I just updated the home page (main nav & body content) to add a "Browse All Books" button that takes you into the app to view the current titles. Appreciate the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback! Do you think adding a button to the homepage/marketing page that says something to the effect of "See all our content" that redirected you here: https://ap…

All the audio is by real humans but I definitely use AI help on the descriptions and images, as graphic design and copywriting are not areas I’m competent in, and as a side gig cur…

https://soundreads.io/ An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering. O…

Thank you, and thanks for the comment! Currently I have around 20 books with plans on releasing 1 a month (hopefully more). Have several in production right now and several in the …

Coincidentally, I posted a somewhat related Show HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657083 Crossover is that some of what we’ve done is curate some of the best li…

I spent the last 1yr+ building an audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I di…

You mentioned readium in one of your comments. I’m curious why you didn’t use the readium spec and corresponding ecosystem. Coming in cold and just glanced at your blog post, and I…

In my case (and I suspect many others) the answer is Xcode. I develop native apps which means I need access to an iOS dev environment. iOS development is nearly impossible without …

Despite its many flaws, I use Plex as the single place for all my video and audio content. If you pay for the lifetime pass, you get access to an app called Plexamp which is design…

If you haven’t already, you should check out MakeMKV. You can buy it or use it free with the beta keys, and it should solve your problem. https://makemkv.com/

We’ve built a similar pipeline architecture for our product. One key thing I’ll mention is that we’re using Shaka-streamer which is a python wrapper around Shaka-packager (which in…