mindwork

I learned this word, but I'm scared and wondered by it every time. I think it fits here. There is two worlds: believed and true. And when they merge it's called "peripeteia"

Laurel or Yanny test?

@jamil7 what are you working on? I wrote here that I've had pretty similar idea, wonder what's your take on that?

If this is not a wake up call for me, I don't know what it should be. I had this same exact idea for 9 months now but never moved to execute. Reading through site it even has the same wording as in my head.

As a developer I wanted to build something like this and it looks easy(without AI part). But following the startup gurus and podcasts I figured that idea should be validated first and to find actual customers is more important than building technology. Here started troubles. I have no skills in marketing and when diving deeper it looked cumbersome for me. I spend free credits on AdSense but it only brought 8 emails for empty newsletter.

I'm interested did you do the research on user base? What would be a market for this?

Where are you planning to grow the site? Do you have monetization plan?

p.s. found a link in comments for read2me.online, and just from demo they sound really good for ears

Pricing looks expensive, but quality is top notch. Do you know which TTS engine it is?

For a podcasts with good audio quality(which is usually a case for podcasts) you probably can use speech recognition tools that will cost you a fraction of this price. They are pretty good nowdays

Started startup with extremely high expectations of me and bad partner. Had 9-5 work as software engineer I threw myself on the startup working after hours till exhaust. I decided to do something to relax - started crossfit. Once I just collapsed on the street and after that I had extremely bad panic attacks and near death feels. Didn't know that it was panic attacks and clinical depression at the moment, thought maybe some internal organ damage. Took me 3 separate 1-month admissions to hospital and 3.5 years of taking anti-depressants to recover. It did change my outlook on life, first of all I shifted my priorities to health first and work - second, I'm trying to stay out of the stress and taking care of my body(running, gym, meditation, yoga) everything that helps. Ever since then I don't things too serious, and I don't wanna ever work till exhaust. I know it's sounds cheesy but listen to your body and be healthy. Also it takes a lot to admit that you are in depression, and seek medical attention to that. If you wake up every morning and the only thing that you want is to go to sleep because you can't embrace new day - you are in depression. If your personality changed out of the sudden - you are in depression. If you don't have any thoughts in your head only feeling of worries - you are in depression.

I am stopping to talk with people who ask for such a bs.

Check out the last technical interview task that I got ``` Objective: Write a program that prints out a multiplication table of the first 10 prime numbers. The program must run from the command line and print to screen one table.

Notes: - DO NOT use a library method for Prime (write your own) - Use Tests. TDD/BDD - IMPRESS US. ```

I mean I can impress you but how will this correlate with production code?