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Just because your niche issue isn't resolved, it is kind of a jerk move to blast them on HN especially when they've recently replied saying the issue is on their radar.
In less popular open source projects this is what drives devs to abandon them.
Idk man, big picture, I see nothing, but success with the media focusing on just the speed bumps along the way
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/technology/xai-elon-musk-...
In terms of Elon's contribution, you couldn't be more wrong. It was Elon's decision to pursue Starlink - a business model that had bankrupted all previous companies that attempted it. Elon's decision to pursue reusability which made Starlink feasible. Elon's decision to fire all the upper management of Starlink when the program wasn't going well - and in under a year of that decision had completely redesigned satellites in orbit. And now it's Elon's decision to pursue Starship that is a money furnace, but if it pays off Starlink 3.0 could bring in an order of magnitude more money than it does now.
The same high risk, high reward methodology with a good dose of micro-management is how he's brought six distinct companies to multi billion dollar valuations. And how he's succeeded despite the incessant reporting of his or his companies imminent failure.
https://www.weku.org/the-commonwealth/2025-05-17/kentucky-nw...
Edit: Really? Downvote me for asking a super simple question? Sorry if I threaten the narrative.
For example, run an ad campaign on Google, figure out your CPC (cost per customer). See if that is even below your LTV (lifetime value per customer) plus operating expenses. And then tweak all the variables in your product and campaign to actually create some sort of sustainable business flywheel.
Having an amazing product and 'waiting' for your network to spread the word to all potential customers.. it's absurd to think that would work. It's hard enough even with big ad campaigns to reach potential customers.
Capitalism depends on advertising to let people know of the product or service that is more cost effective than existing solutions. The advertising budget is dependent on knowing your product is actually good enough to justify the expense. Without advertising, competition itself doesn't work.
The bottleneck is no longer on labor to turn ideas into reality, the bottleneck is imagination itself. It's incredible. The cost to produce/consume going down along with many other facets of the economy translates into deflation.
If you make less money, or work less hours, or only have a single person in your family work - that's ok because money will go further. That's the whole idea behind Star Trek, the first step though was intelligent computers, automation and robots. Harnessed in a way that doesn't backfire on us.
In my experience the OpenAI TTS APIs were really bad, messing up all the time in foreign languages. Practically unusable for my use case. You'd have to use the gpt-4o-audio-preview to get anything close to passable, but it was expensive. Which is why I'm using Google TTS which is very fast, high quality, and provides first class support for almost every language.
I look forward to comparing it with this model, the price being the same is unfortunate as there's less incentive to switch. The transcribe price is cheaper than Google it looks like so that's worth considering.
Going the other way, transcribe with gpt-4o-audio-preview price was $40 input audio, $10 output text, the new gpt-4o-transcribe is $6 input audio and $10 output text. Like a 7x reduction on the input price.
TTS/Transcribe with gpt-4o-audio-preview was a hack where you had to prompt with 'listen/speak this sentence:' and it often got it wrong. These new dedicated models are exactly what we needed.
I'm currently using the Google TTS API which is really good, fast and cheap. They charges $16 per million characters which is exactly the same as OpenAI's $0.015 per minute estimate.
Unfortunately it's not really worth switching over if the costs are exactly the same. Transcription on the other hand is 1.6¢/minute with Google and 0.6¢/minute with OpenAI now, that might be worth switching over for.
The game Myst is all about this magical writing script that allowed people to write entire worlds in books. That's where it feels like this is all going. Unity/Blender/Photoshop/etc.. is ripe for putting a LLM over the entire UI and exposing the APIs to it.
Transcript: "But I will say that I think Go definitely is much more low-level. I'd say it's the lowest level language we can get to and still have automatic garbage collection. It's the most native-first language we can get to and still have automatic GC. In contrast, C# is sort of bytecode-first, if you will. There are some ahead-of-time compilation options available, but they're not on all platforms and don't really have a decade or more of hardening. They weren't engineered that way to begin with. I think Go also has a little more expressiveness when it comes to data structure layout, inline structs, and so forth."