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Show HN: Turn Any Article into Podcasts

5 points by nwatab 5y ago

nwatab 5y ago
This is my project. If you have many articles to read and you prefer listening, I'll convert an article into podcasts and make your own podcasts that contains your "listen later" list. I made this because I want to consume some materials to read while jogging. As this is my first post on Hacker News, please tell me if I'm doing wrong.
ekulianova 5y ago
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)
- nwatab 5y ago
  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).
HardwareLust 5y ago
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.
- nwatab 5y ago
  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 https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing
latexr 5y ago
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.
- nwatab 5y ago
  Thank you so much for the comment. I've wanted to hear such a thing. I'll take it consider and improve.

5 points by nwatab 5y ago

This is my project. If you have many articles to read and you prefer listening, I'll convert an article into podcasts and make your own podcasts that contains your "listen later" list. I made this because I want to consume some materials to read while jogging. As this is my first post on Hacker News, please tell me if I'm doing wrong.

ekulianova 5y ago

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)

nwatab 5y ago
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).

HardwareLust 5y ago

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.

nwatab 5y ago
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 https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

latexr 5y ago

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.

nwatab 5y ago
Thank you so much for the comment. I've wanted to hear such a thing. I'll take it consider and improve.