Show HN: Turn Any Article into Podcasts(podrest-9d21d.web.app)
podrest-9d21d.web.app
Show HN: Turn Any Article into Podcasts
https://podrest-9d21d.web.app/
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5 USD for one month or 20 articles isn’t attractive. That’s fewer than one a day. Heck, it’s fewer than one per working day. It means if you add a dud (an article you realise you weren’t interested in after all) you’ll feel the loss. A subscription whose limit you worry about hitting is doubly bad for a customer, it only benefits you. The idea isn’t novel or rare (I’ve seen several Show HN which do the same), meaning differentiation could be important.
On the plus side, the landing page is clean and clear. It has close to no information but no fluff, except for the hero image which takes up a lot of space for nothing.
On the plus side, the landing page is clean and clear. It has close to no information but no fluff, except for the hero image which takes up a lot of space for nothing.
Thank you so much for the comment. I've wanted to hear such a thing. I'll take it consider and improve.
Hi! Great idea. I din't quite understand where I put a link to the article. When I press "Get started" a google form opens where I can put my email. And there is only one more field: 'if any message or question'. Looks a bit strange)
Thank you for your interest and sorry for confusing you. I expected a visitor to put their email in a form and then I send back payment link (backend processing is not automated yet so I handle each request manually).
I'd be curious to see what your take rate is. I imagine 99.99% of casuals are just going to close the window and leave when they discover this is a paid service, which you hide up until they need to enter a payment method.
Thank you so much for the comment. Text-to-speech costs $16.00 USD / 1 million characters[1]. So if an article has 5,000 characters, it costs 0.08 USD. If you put 20 articles, it costs 1.6USD. And current my assumption is most of the articles contains more than 5,000 characters.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing
As this is my first post on Hacker News, please tell me if I'm doing wrong.