Hi all. Just wondering if anyone uses or is experimenting with text-to-speech. If so, what are you using? I'm Curious what are you using it for? How are you producing text-to-speech? Are you using a service, an app, or something else? And if you don't mind me asking, how are you, and how much are you paying for it?

Hey everyone, Wrapping up 2025 with a reflection I wanted to share with this community. The short version: I left a stable contract role this year, pivoted 8 times, and somehow ended up with an interconnected system mapped on a whiteboard a a personal voice assistant, a TTS model I'm training, a B2B2B platform for agencies to white-label AI voice agents, an extensible workflow orchestration system, and tools to help other solo builders ship. The real lesson: Most projects don't die from lack of discipline. They die from discovery fatigue. You start something, hit a capability gap (wrong language, missing skill, unknown domain), detour into learning, and life swallows the project before you return. AI changes this. Not by replacing your vision - by closing the gap between imagination and implementation. I shipped code in Rust, Go, Swift, C. Languages I can read but could never have written full systems in alone. That's not AI replacing me. That's AI multiplying what I could do. The framework that clicked: People talk about "human in the loop." But what we're really building is "AI in the loop." We're the conductors. We bring ideas, vision, course corrections. AI is the orchestra we're learning to lead. It's not a replacement for human teams — it's leverage for people who can't afford one. What I wish I knew at the start: The regret of not trying outlasts the failure. You can always find another job. But the courage to leap makes you stronger than you realise. For anyone sitting on unfinished projects: This is the time. The tools exist. The gap is closable. Don't let this moment pass. Happy to chat with anyone on a similar path. Not selling anything — just want to help. Have a wonderful NYE and a fabulous start of the New Year 🎉 Praney

I wanted to share something that's been on my mind as we wrap up this year. After about two decades working in software and leading teams, 2025 became the year I wrote the least amount of code in my career. It's also the year I shipped the most. Hundreds of thousands of lines across seven different projects. Not because I suddenly got faster. But because I finally understood something I'd been missing. The shift For years, I treated AI tools the way most of us do. Open a chat. Ask a question. Copy the answer. Repeat. It helped, but it didn't change anything fundamental. I was still the bottleneck. Still context-switching between writing, marketing, support, analytics. Still dropping balls. Then I started thinking differently. What if instead of asking AI for help, I gave AI actual responsibilities? Not just "write me an email" but "you handle email sequences for this product." Not just "give me ideas" but "you monitor what people are saying and flag what matters." What I learned The real unlock isn't a single powerful AI. It's a team of specialized agents, each with a clear job. One handles content. One handles social. One handles customer questions. One tracks metrics. And so on. They're not perfect. They need guidance. I review everything before it goes out. But the mental load is completely different now. I'm not doing seven jobs badly. I'm doing one job well: making decisions and setting direction. The agents handle the execution. They learn. They improve. The team keeps growing. Why I'm sharing this Not because I have it figured out. I definitely don't. But because I spent years thinking "I just need to work harder" or "I just need better systems" when the real answer was simpler: Stop trying to do everything yourself. Build a team. Even if that team is made of AI. The visual I attached shows the before and after. It's how I'm thinking about 2026. Curious if anyone else is experimenting with this approach. Would love to hear what's working for you.

Hey everyone 👋 Just dropped something I've been working on and thought this community would appreciate it. QUICK CONTEXT: I'm a solo founder with 20 years in software and 4 years deep in generative AI. Currently building multiple products without a team - just me and AI tools. WHAT THIS IS: A 56-minute live, unscripted session showing exactly how I work. No polished demos. Just the real, messy process of shipping software solo. WHAT YOU'LL SEE: → Building a voice AI desktop app (local models, text-to-speech, voice morphing) → Claude Code deep dive - skills, parallel agents, sub-agents → Creating a landing page from scratch in real-time → Research and competitive intelligence workflows → My actual development philosophy after years of doing this THE META TWIST: I also edited this 97-minute raw recording with AI. Built a pipeline in ~10 minutes that: → Transcribed everything with word-level timestamps → Auto-detected content structure → Identified and removed sensitive content (I accidentally showed API keys 😅) → Created two versions with professional transitions → Zero manual frame editing The 30-second time-lapse attached shows the entire AI editing process. WHY I'M SHARING THIS: A lot of people ask "does AI-assisted development actually work in practice?" This is what it looks like - not theory, but the actual workflow. FULL SESSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYkcwo45Ww What am I working on in the video: https://vois.so If you're building automation workflows for clients, this shows what's possible when you go deep on one tool (Claude Code) rather than shallow on many. For anyone wondering if you can compete as a one-person team - this is my daily reality. No VAs, no contractors, just AI leverage. Happy to answer any questions about the workflow, tools, or approach.

I nearly spit out my coffee when Claude responded in a brainstorming session with "Holy F***ing Sh*t" (see image, sorry redacted). When shared with others, some peeps loved it. Others were horrified. But here's what matters: This moment perfectly captures why I'm obsessed with Claude and Claude Code as a creative partner. It mirrors YOUR energy. When you're excited, it gets excited. When you need brutal honesty, it delivers. The real magic? It's not just about the response - it's about the collaboration style. Claude becomes the co-founder who: • Matches your vibe (profanity and all) • Validates good ideas with genuine enthusiasm • Pushes back on bad ones without sugarcoating I've been building applications and frameworks around AI powered by various LLMs that leverage this adaptive personality. The results? 10x faster prototyping and ideas that actually ship. Question for you: Do you want your AI tools to be professionally sterile, or authentically human? Drop a 🚀 if you prefer real talk over corporate speak.