I just featured another product, exactly opposite Blogcast. Giving a vote for Blogcast as well.
Care to share a link?
Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles
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#22Love the initiative. I think it will help a lot of bloggers gain additional distribution with very little effort.
Unfortunately, as a regular listener of podcasts, I just can't bring myself to listen to TTS voice.
It's great and has advanced leaps and bounds in the past few years. But if you're used to listening to real human voices on a regular basis, any TTS speech is an instant nope.
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#23Congrats on shipping! It would be great to listen to a sample with a single click right on the home page. Also pricing could probably be higher -- sell a Mercedes, not a Chevrolet...
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#24Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions: A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself. You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny frac…
Please do remember global reach. That's quite an amount for someone in Bulgaria, the Philippines or most of Africa. Yes pricing for Americans/Western Europe is one good idea - but if it's still profitable why not do open up to a price range affordable to many?
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#25I would make the sample available on the homepage. I had to scroll up and down twice in a row to realise it's in the tabbed FAQ.
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#26I would make the sample available on the homepage. I had to scroll up and down twice in a row to realise it's in the tabbed FAQ.
Yes, the sample should be the top thing. I wanted to hear an article before anything else.
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#27Other people have said it already, but you are charging too little for your service. You should increase the price by at least 10 times. People use price as a proxy for value, and things that are priced too low are perceived as low quality. Increasing the price may even increase sales!
Increase the price but give a free tier to users to taste it first.
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#28Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions: A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself. You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny frac…
Please do remember global reach. That's quite an amount for someone in Bulgaria, the Philippines or most of Africa. Yes pricing for Americans/Western Europe is one good idea - but if it's still profitable why not do open up to a price range affordable to many?
This is a great point that I hadn’t considered.
If this is a concern, you can do variable pricing based on IP! Though I’d be willing to bet that at this time the creator is more interested in having a profitable business than serving every possible customer. That can come later when cash flow is stable and abundant.
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#29Google's TTS charges much higher than 0.5$. And you're providing lifetime hosting too. How does it work? I'm afraid that I'd start using it and at some point, you'd go bust.