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I made https://t.me/marcbot a few weeks ago. Comes with voice memo support, etc.

Yes, you can configure the TTS voices (and languages).

If you send /voices you can pick from multiple voices.

Right now it only shows voices in English, but you can send the secret `/setvoice <voiceName>` with an Amazon Polly[0] neural voice and it will work as well.

The only downside right now is that I don't auto-identify languages, so if you set it to Dutch, but ask a question in English, you'll get a response in English with a very Dutch accent haha.

P.S. And yes @aero-glide2 is correct that you can toggle between Telegram's audio/video inputs by tapping the camera/microphone icon. – Right now MarcBot only supports audio inputs.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html

Yep! Same ChatGPT API for text generation. And Whisper AP for speech recognition.

If you speak other languages than English, make sure to give those a try well. It should understand you and respond in the same language.

Congrats on the launch!

Made something similar which also uses Whisper to support voice memos (talk to GPT) and TTS (hear GPT’s responses)

Not sure it warrants a separate post, so sharing it here.

https://t.me/marcbot

Does anyone have a TL;DR on this?

If you don’t want to keep track of when your users are visiting your site, you can instead use their time of signup as an approximation when they are likely to be online.

I follow Ankane’s blog. He has some great posts and gems himself.

There are more than you might realize. Some good ones listed here:

https://ankane.org/new-ml-gems https://ankane.org/more-ml-gems

I think the author refers to "Stripe not approving the business" as an issue.

Maker of WIP here. Yes, many members note that having to pay $20 motivates them to be more consistent in using the tool which in turn helps them be consistently productive.

It also helps pay my bills so I continue improving the service :)

Yes, although that criteria is somewhat subjective. Since an UDRP needs to meet all criteria, you can throw it out by just looking that the registration dates.

marc(at)hey.com

Note that I'm not a lawyer, but I've dealt with similar issues before through a qualified lawyer. Happy to introduce you. Not sharing name here publicly, because that could potentially be used against me. (i.e. someone intentionally creating a conflict of interest, etc)

They might be using scare tactics hoping you'll hand over the domain name without question. But I wonder if they have a case.

My suggestion would be to either A) ignore and see if they go away, and/or B) have a domain name lawyer send a reply showing you won't roll over. That's usually enough for parties like these to back down.

If you need a lawyer recommendation send me DM me on Twitter (@marckohlbrugge). More than happy to help.

FWIW, some people might mention a procedure called 'UDRP' which is typically used by TM owners to quickly and cheaply get a TM-infringing domain name. However, one of the requirements for a successful UDRP case is that the TM needs to have been issued BEFORE the domain name was registered. Which is not the case here. So a UDRP approach would fail for them.

The other way for them would indeed be to sue and try to claim TM infringement in court. I don't have much experience with TM law, so I'm not sure what your odds of winning are. But there might even be a way to get their TM invalidated.

TL;DR: Talk to a lawyer.

P.S. If they have money for lawyers, they might also have money to buy your domain name. I wouldn't propose a purchase until you've talked to a lawyer (as it could hurt your case), but it's something to consider for later on.

I've been using Glass for a couple of months now and it's really a breath of fresh air compared to Instagram. The focus is on the photography instead of sharing your lifestyle or whatever Instagram is meant to be these days.

I hope they can gather enough paying members to make it a sustainable business

I run https://wip.co which is a community of mostly bootstrappers working in public. Members usually start sharing the progress from the very first day so definitely early stage.

https://indiehackers.com is a really helpful and active community too. Definitely check out their podcast as well.

Emoji domains are a lot of fun for sure.

Shameless plug: A few years ago I discovered them for the first time and made https://.to which listed all available single-emoji domains for the .to extension.

Within a few days hundreds of emoji domains were registered and very few were left. I think I netted the registrar 10,000s of $$$ in days. (I got a nice commission myself as well of course).

Edit: okay so HN doesn't like emoji domains – here's a blog post that goes into more detail with the actual URL: https://marc.io/emoji-domains

Cool idea! I've seen some people on WIP use it for building a reading habit, but a community focused on it makes a lot of sense. Would be interesting to see more excerpts and discussions. Turning it into a habit-forming bookclub.

Most of Hotwire uses regular HTTP requests. Web sockets are only used for broadcasting real-time updates. (Basically anything you’d traditionally use polling for.)

I built https://BetaList.com specifically for this purpose. Helping pre-launch startups get their first signups. (Although these days we also include recently launched ones)

Thanks for sharing that. Appreciate it!

BetaList ( https://betalist.com ) turned 10 years old today. For the majority of time it was run by just me, generating $100k/year in revenue on average (earlier years less, later years more). I’ve now delegated all the daily operations to a contractor who spends a few hours a day to keep things going. So technically it’s two people right now, but less than half a FTE total.

Why not? Most developers seem to work on one platform anyway.

It’s time someone built a good macOS-native editor. There are already plenty of non-native solutions out there.

Thanks. All owned 100% by me. No outside funding or co-founders.

I use Ruby on Rails which has a lot of pre-made libraries for common tasks.

I’ve been building products for 10+ years though. So it’s mostly a matter of time I think

There’s an approval process you need to go through. I wouldn’t recommend it if you can avoid it as you’ll be at the mercy of Facebook.

My Twitter bio has a list of many of my projects: https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge

Most notable:

https://betalist.com (2010): $xxx,xxx/year

https://startup.jobs (2016): $xx,xxx/year (could hit $xxx,xxx this year)

https://wip.chat (2017): $xx,xxx/year

Sure, but my point is that Tweet Photo's EULA is by definition restricted to what Twitter and Facebook terms allow.

There was a big jump in signups, but not as much in monetization. My guess is that it was mostly young consumers signing up through her, but it's the professionals and businesses that pay to upgrade.

Yes, perhaps I should point that out in the article.

Although to be honest it's not that hard to get featured on BetaList if you have a half-decent product :)

1. Too many to count. The trick is to ship fast and see what sticks. Focus on that, ignore the rest. Tweet Photo is my first legit exit, but some of my other side projects have turned into $xxx,xxx/year businesses. Just haven't sold them :)

2. Usually out of necessity. Something I want myself, but can't find an (appealing) existing solution for.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340353

I won't be involved in the product development, but we might to the occasional video call or email to exchange ideas and insights.