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I love the idea of being generous and having that come back to you. This notion not only works with products but it works in every other part of life. You may not believe in Karma but the vast majority of the good will we put out there will eventually come back to us, at least it is this humble engineers opinion.

As a little self promotion, and an example of this idea, I recently built an app that lets people listen to any article, it uses AI to convert the articles to Audio with some amazing sounding open source models. I decided to give folks up to 30 free article conversions per month and only charge after that, if they really love the product. You can try it here https://articulu.com

I may at some point be forced to lower that a bit because it does cost a bunch of money to run TensorFlow in the cloud, but trying my best to keep the karma goin.

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I'm not religious but I love reading about the history and philosophy of religion. Piggybacking on what you said about Karma — it's the golden rule. The intersection of all religions, the bit that's in every. single. holy book.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do good and it'll come back to you — you're not the one to keep the bill.

As you said, it's something to be taken out generally in life. I wrote about it in another post, addressing publicly the tech CEO and how she/he should not keep the tab. Do have a read if you're interested: https://chagency.co.uk/blog/general/dear-ceo-dont-keep-the-t...

(Please let me know if linking your own stuff is not ok on HackerNews, I just joined the community and it seems lovely)

I'd need the opposite of what Articulu is doing — transcribing my video's audio into written word. Had a look and it looks nice, will give it a try!

Let's connect, how can I reach you?

As long as your posts are useful and insightful I’m pretty sure it’s allowed.

You can reach me right on the website, I put up contact info and it works.

Edit: excellent post by the way, loved it and shared it with some friends. That word of mouth thing is 100% true.

Very glad to hear that. Will get in touch now. Thanks for sharing it!

Random question ever think of selling your voice library as a product as well? You can put "Powered by" for free users and for paid users it can be shown in an "About" page instead.

That’s a great idea, but I’m thinking of giving that away for for free say up to say 1k listens.

We’ll see it’s a ton to build as a side project.

> We’ll see it’s a ton to build as a side project.

If you can make certain parts of the code reusable it will be for the better code wise too. But you know your situation better than me, just sharing a simple idea. Good luck, I would love to learn about ML more, but I don't have the background I perceive necessary to pursue that. Plus I've got other things I want to master (it's an ever growing list) that I need to focus on.

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