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That's not true at all. I put an early GenAI side project up, someone convinced me to monetize, and boom - $700k ARR in almost no time. I'm not sure it's poss

That's not true at all. I put an early GenAI side project up, someone convinced me to monetize, and boom - $700k ARR in almost no time. I'm not sure it's possible now with so little effort given how full the space is, but if you're in the right time and place with the right solution, there are tons of people that will pay you. Same story as always: create value, solve a problem, make something people want.

philjackson 1y ago
Willing to name the service?
xnx 1y ago
> $700k ARR Projected, or has it been operating for a year?
phyzix5761 1y ago
You have 2000+ recurring paying customers using your fakeyou website?
- echelon 1y ago
  Yeah! It held at that revenue for over a year, but that was several years ago. Then the market filled out. I stopped working on it (and listening to customers) to pursue other things. I'm about to open source our desktop AI VFX compositing and animation tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U https://getartcraft.com/ https://getartcraft.com/ (github and download links are not live yet) I'm an engineer and a filmmaker. I'm really into video generation, but controllability and consistency are critical. I've been working on staging, blocking, and animation tools to control how various commercial and open source models behave. I just didn't have a passion for TTS and voice conversion. The Uberduck folks were my closest competitors for a while and they were YC funded. I think Suno and Udio sunk their product roadmap for music tools and they pivoted to something else. Maybe voice agents? They're cool folks. Now Weights.gg is leading the "TTS for teens / consumers" space. There are dozens of startups in the voice conversion for music production space. This used to be an easy ramp to revenue, but the market is saturated.
  - phyzix5761 1y ago
    Very cool. Thanks for sharing

philjackson 1y ago

Willing to name the service?

xnx 1y ago

> $700k ARR Projected, or has it been operating for a year?

phyzix5761 1y ago

You have 2000+ recurring paying customers using your fakeyou website?

echelon 1y ago
Yeah! It held at that revenue for over a year, but that was several years ago. Then the market filled out. I stopped working on it (and listening to customers) to pursue other things. I'm about to open source our desktop AI VFX compositing and animation tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U https://getartcraft.com/ https://getartcraft.com/ (github and download links are not live yet) I'm an engineer and a filmmaker. I'm really into video generation, but controllability and consistency are critical. I've been working on staging, blocking, and animation tools to control how various commercial and open source models behave. I just didn't have a passion for TTS and voice conversion. The Uberduck folks were my closest competitors for a while and they were YC funded. I think Suno and Udio sunk their product roadmap for music tools and they pivoted to something else. Maybe voice agents? They're cool folks. Now Weights.gg is leading the "TTS for teens / consumers" space. There are dozens of startups in the voice conversion for music production space. This used to be an easy ramp to revenue, but the market is saturated.
- phyzix5761 1y ago
  Very cool. Thanks for sharing