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I am working on https://audiodiary.ai as a solo founder, I recently have been getting enough income to just about cover my living expenses and haven’t received any funding and didn’t do any marketing, with 9k users so far since launch last May. It’s fulfilling and great to see people use and love a product I’ve built. I’m obviously highly motivated to grow so it keeps me busy.

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Congrats—That is awesome! Curious, how long did it take you to get your first customer?

It happened very soon after launch actually, maybe a few days. Because the name essentially is a search term, people were able to find it right away

This is such a good idea, I wish I’d thought of it. I have trouble maintaining consistency in journaling, but this makes it a heck of a lot easier. I just signed up - good luck!

Thanks very much for signing up! Any issues, questions, or ideas please contact me-you can directly email me from the app.

That's really amazing. You should start doing some marketing to accelerate the growth!

If you don't mind, can you share how much you're currently able to make from this?

Thanks very much! I’d like to learn more about marketing to help me grow it. It’s hard to put an exact figure on it because it’s essentially growing every day which i’m so happy about, but recently it’s become just enough to sustain me. Perhaps at an entry level software engineering position

I could not find any pricing options on your website.

In order to find how much your service would cost, i needed to create an account and also download the app.

You also did not specify which features would be locked behind a paywall.

Can you be more transparent about this? I like to know what i'm getting myself into before i start using a product.

Such a good point, I never thought of that and think it would add credibility to the product too. 90% of traffic comes from the app store and the pricing is shown there on Google and Apple, most people never see the landing page, but I think this would be good to add.

PS it’s about $30 for a year and $6 for a month (depending on your state/country)

Looks cool. Would love to know pricing and how/where you store data?

Pricing depends on the country but have addressed that in another comment! The privacy policy explains how we store data but will make this clearer and more upfront. I store recordings separately from user info in an S3 bucket and the database is hosted in digital ocean. Recordings are sent to OpenAI for ephemeral analysis and transcription.

Can I export the recordings and the resulting (presumably text) diary?

Sorry missed this one. Yes you can, I actually put a lot of work into making this feature useful. You get all the recordings plus a PDF.

this is pretty cool. what stack did you use to build the app and how did you launch two native apps so quickly?

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