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Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by osrec »

soheil wrote: post #25
blinky1456 wrote: post #24

I wonder if it is possible to make a simple version to run entirely in the frontend, for short clips? You can capture video and download it from canvas: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/capture-st... And it looks possible to add separate audio to it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39302814/mediastream-cap... . You could also recreate the waveforms and add to the canvas: https://developer.mozilla…

Probably possible, but what would be the advantage? I know for instance using something like Google Speech to Text API is a lot more accurate than Web Speech API.

The advantage is reduced server costs + more efficient use of computing resources in general. I personally am always happy to offload processing to the client side wherever possible.

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by manigandham »

z3ncyberpunk wrote: post #59
ThomPete wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a customer openly admit to me that they had been using a pirated version of my app until now. Pretty crazy when you see your own app on torrent sites.

Only when your goal is making money and not making apps to further humanity

For most people, money is a tool and not a goal.

Can you share some examples of how you've furthered humanity while living for free?

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by leppr »

prepend wrote: post #77
leppr wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This particular data point is irrelevant since the game launched on Android one year after its iOS debut, losing the novelty and marketing factors.

Do you think it was a random factor that had it debut on iOS. Despite far fewer devices, the Apple App Store has always made more revenue than Android. The most recent real numbers [0] I could find show this is a big difference. I always assumed that’s why app devs roll out on iOS first. [0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/11/as-usual-apples-ap...

I didn't contest the overall conclusion, but as engineers and entrepreneurs we normally have a propensity to disregard binary thinking. The numbers in your link are useful to predict expected revenue from an iOS vs an Android exclusive. The 73/17 ratio from the parent post is not, but could be misleading to someone who didn't know the app's release schedule.

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by austhrow743 »

Denzel wrote: post #38

Semi-rhetorical question: why do customers accept something like this delivered in SaaS form? It seems so antithetical to customer obsession when this is the exact type of problem that lends itself well to a locally running application. Why not deliver this as a desktop application that users download and pay for one-time? There’s absolutely no need for an ongoing subscription to a backend service here. Outside of re…

A subscription as opposed to an upfront one time payment allows them to pay on a timescale that more accurately reflects the value they are receiving. This is generally a good thing.

Renting is often exactly what businesses want to do. They have better uses for their money than pre-purchasing all of their future expenses. They rent office space, lease cars, pay salaries fortnightly instead of at the start of the year, pay for their inventory not only as they receive it rather than in advance, but often on terms of credit. Software doesn't have a reason to be an exception to this. If I can pay $X now or $X spread over a number of years, I'm going to pick the latter.

The payment terms of a product are effectively part of the product itself. I'm in sales and I've won and lost deals against comparatively priced competitors on the basis that my/their pricing schedule better matched what the prospect wanted.

I took renting to mean just ongoing payments by the way. If you meant rent seeking as in the concept in economics then 1. this isn't it and 2. using IP law to prop up the value of locally installable software would be a closer example of it than doing so by keeping some of the code under your own control is.

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by findjashua »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #75
soheil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It turns a podcast into a video with some animation and transcripts. I made a similar website here https://0work.co

Do you also make 77k/month with this? If not, why not? Genuine question.

marketing

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by duxup »

Denzel wrote: post #38

Semi-rhetorical question: why do customers accept something like this delivered in SaaS form? It seems so antithetical to customer obsession when this is the exact type of problem that lends itself well to a locally running application. Why not deliver this as a desktop application that users download and pay for one-time? There’s absolutely no need for an ongoing subscription to a backend service here. Outside of re…

I've kinda reached the point where I don't want to install anything... unless I'm 100% sure I want it.

I'm happy to do a free trial, and have it instantly accessible on all my devices that have a browser and etc.

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by anitil »

megablast wrote: post #80
nickfogle wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure! Previously, podcasters and musicians didn't have a very engaging way to share audio on social media. We built Wavve so creators can easily convert audio files into a branded video with an animated waveform. Here's our Twitter and Instagram accounts with some examples of what's possible: https://www.instagram.com/getwavve https://twitter.com/wavve

Oh, doesn't seem like very much.

$76k/mo sounds like quite a lot to me!

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by anitil »

alharith wrote: post #2

Just watching the marketing materials and presentation once again highlights just how important marketing is. Well done on that front.

Having been in a few failing businesses I can tell you that marketing and sales are _the_ core reason tech (maybe also non-tech) businesses fail. Fundamentally you can do without code, but you can't do without sales.

I have a lot of respect for sales people and people who can market themselves. One of my favorite videos about this is by a bodybuilder/powerlifter Stan Efferding [1] - he is some sort of marketing savant, with a product that I think is kind of silly, but he can market the hell out of it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFhe8yHKdY

Re: Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Post by xwdv »

I got a question, clearly a SaaS like this can easily be a desktop application if someone wanted to make one.

When your business starts making real money, at what point are you forced to start buying out these standalone apps so that your business model isn’t threatened?

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