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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 exclusiv »

heliodor wrote: post #49
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…

The main point people make about differentiating your digital product is to not compete on price. A lower price means less money for advertising and marketing, so a losing proposition. What you're proposing with the one-time upfront fee model is to compete on price, so smart entrepreneurs steer clear of that model.

I like SaaS but one time has the advantage of being able to use more money on growth. So if you have your acquisition dialed in it can be advantageous to offer a larger annual or lifetime model.

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

nickfogle wrote: post #10
ornornor wrote: post #5

I must be thick but... I have no idea what their product does after reading the interview. Can someone explain it for the rest of us?

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

I did not catch what the animation was. I thought it maybe was some sort of power point swipes between images from the studio or something.

That sounds tacky but I remember watching a clip from a Bill Burr podcast where he talked about super rich middle easterners bringing their gold Ferrari’s to London. It had a slide show super imposed with pictures of such cars in London and it Really helped bring the story to life.

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

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Post by Farbklex »

soheil wrote: post #4

I made a similar website here inspired by wavve https://0work.co

I really miss a preview / demo here.

With wavve, I instantly see how the shared clip will look like. I can even scroll down to the social media links and see a lot of examples directly in instagram / twitter / facebook.

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

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Post by register »

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…

To me the easiest answer is that they are leveraging FFMPEG which is GPL. If they had embedded it in a mobile or desktop application they would have had to release it as open source.

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

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Post by bingojess »

mlcrypto wrote: post #16

Nobody should be making 76k a month when millions of hard working Americans are barely making 1k a month /s

This is like the movie Parasite where the two poorer groups struggle against each other below the rich.

Making 76k a month, the creators here will take 1096 years to make 1 billion dollars.

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

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Post by ivanhoe »

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…

One-time fee means that you pay more money upfront. Plus you have to install it, which is both a security issue and unnecessary hassle if you don't like it and need to uninstall it. If you change your machine you need to reinstall the app. If you need it from more than one location (home, office) you need to pay for more licenses. Support is way more complicated for desktop apps. And then next year they release a new version of the app, and you need to pay for the upgrade, so it's pretty much the same dynamics as annual subscription.

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

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Post by wastedhours »

quezzle wrote: post #112

Why do people reveal this stuff? Seriously there’s lots of people happy to clone it and get a bite.

There's probably more people who see a successful product in a space (thus social proofing the brand) and want to pay to use it than those who will actually pull their finger out and build a competitor.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

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

Until the UBI arrives I still have to work for money.
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