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Show HN: Turn Any Article into Podcasts

by nwatab on 10/11/21, 6:24 AM with 7 comments

• by nwatab on 10/11/21, 6:28 AM

  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.

• by latexr on 10/11/21, 6:20 PM

  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.

• by ekulianova on 10/11/21, 8:32 AM

  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)

• by HardwareLust on 10/11/21, 3:53 PM

  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.