I emailed 600 people I hadn't spoken to in 14 years
I emailed 600 people I hadn't spoken to in 14 years. 5 of them became my first paying customers — within 60 minutes. Here's what I built and why. I'm partially dyslexic. Long text has always been a struggle. Since high school I've been converting written content to audio — articles, reports, white papers, ebooks. I kept building tools to do this. Eventually one of them got good enough that content creators started asking for it. A friend wanted it for creating custom bedtime stories for her kids. Another had a stack of ebooks he'd never read — wanted them as audio for his commute. Others were producing YouTube content and tired of paying per-character for cloud voiceover tools. That personal tool became a full desktop voice AI studio. 63 voices, voice cloning, 23 languages, multi-speaker editing, professional mastering. Everything runs locally — no uploading scripts to someone else's server. Then 3 days ago I emailed 600 customers from a product I built in 2012. Plain text, no design. Some of them bought. Revenue before the product even launched publicly. Tonight it goes live. For content creators here — how much of your workflow involves voiceovers? And what's your biggest frustration with the tools you're using now?