Audio Diary VS Persumi

I've built Audio Diary (https://audiodiary.ai) which is in a similar space to Obsidian and found this post interesting, but very puritanical. Using funding as a "shortcut" to growth is very important as time is limited (by runway, lifespan, motivation, etc). He even says at the very start that he doesn't expect his app to live forever. If so, why not get some help to have the best chance of growth and get a great... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

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. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Https://audiodiary.ai is a flutter app i’m building atm and it’s helped me get a few contracts. not really a side project and tbh I think it turns some people off. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Completely agree with the other commentator here—AI apps are lame. Disagree with the article though as I think there are use cases where calling ChatGPT is more than enough. What I did was build an simple old-school type app that aims to be solid and useful, and then add AI to give the user nice features on top of it. Users seem to be really happy with the result so far. https://audiodiary.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Nice app! I have an app in roughly the same vein (both introspection apps) which I’m also releasing. Would love to know your thoughts! https://audiodiary.ai What framework did you use for this? - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I'm "half-half" so to speak. I work as a CTO in my day job (as an employee). Also I'm self-employed (via a company structure) to build https://persumi.com - a blogging platform, and https://rizz.farm - a lead gen platform, as well as to work on client work. https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/hire-fred :). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

After having worked at many startups, most recently as CTO, I had finally started building my own SaaS (https://persumi.com, a blogging/audio platform and https://rizz.farm, a lead generation platform) in 2023. So for 2024 I'd love to start monetising them and turning them into real businesses. Fingers crossed. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I think it depends. I used Petal Pro (https://petal.build/) to build Persumi (https://persumi.com) in three months and Rizz.farm (https://rizz.farm) in six weeks, both in my spare time. It would not have been possible if it wasn't for the boilerplate taking care of things like authentication and user management. With a bit of digging around, things are pretty straightforward. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I built https://persumi.com to uplift my own blogs, and to turn text into audio (you can subscribe in your podcast app). Then, once I realised there's no good tools to promote it, I built https://rizz.farm so I can promote Persumi. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Personally, I enjoy the human aspect, so I've been working as a CTO for a few years now. On the side I spend my spare time working on open source projects, freelance projects and most recently my own apps (persumi.com and rizz.farm) because programming is still my passion and hobby. Source: 5 months ago