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A one time payment (no subscription), local text to speech solution for MacOS or Windows. I've been a heavy user of Speechify but it was a bit expensive to justify. So I eventually built With Audio and after a few iterations now I'm working on the desktop app. Our laptops are very powerful and they are more capable of running some of these Text To Speech models with near to real time performance.

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Care to explain more? how is it going? how many paying customers? how did u get the first 100 users or how are u going to achieve it?

Of course. Its very early days of doing this. I released the early access last month and then spent some time compiling it for Windows as well (before that it was only Mac arm). I'm promoting it again. At the moment I have 5 customers that are not friends and families by posting on Reddit audiobooks subreddit. My plan is to just keep promoting on social media, or communities like study groups or students for a while. I believe I should be able to get first 100 customers without paying for ads. It might be too naive but I think it not being a subscription can be a very good selling point and also it being local.

I'm a dev, I'm very much new to sales and marketing world. I think its fair to say I have no idea about next steps after dev work is finished (enough to attempt to sale). Mostly trying to figure that out.

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