textreel
Convert any audio file into video
The Textreel API is now ready to use!
https://textreel.com/developers
From when I first launched quite a few users asked me if I had any plans to add an API so they could integrate it into their application.
I've never built an API before so there was a lot to learn but I'm pleased with how it's turned out. I put a lot of time into making sure the documentation was simple and easy to follow as well as providing lots of helpful code samples to copy and paste.
There's nothing worse than working with a poorly documented API (cough PayPal)
Give it a try and let me know your thoughts!
Much love
Today I acquired my first sale! After 5 years of trying and failing with various side projects it feels great to get my first paying customer. It makes all the hard work worth it and also validates the business idea.
All of the feedback has been great so far so here's too the next sale!
If you keep working hard, learn from mistakes and stay positive you can find success.
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Congratulations!
After about 2 months I've finished building the MVP for textreel. I mainly worked on this in the evenings but managed to make pretty good progress.
In the past I've spent too long working on projects only to find they were doomed to fail so my goal was to get the MVP ready as soon as possible.
I'm now going to launch on Product Hunt and Hacker News in the hopes of getting some feedback and market validation.
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My engineer brain is getting enthuasistic with your idea. My two cents would be try not to get distracted with engineer feedback and real user feedback. ProductHunt may be, but Hackernews is hard to profile users. That's something I noticed working on my AI project, as feedback is much better coming from my dev friends.
Since your user base is so clear, you could go directly to Reddit too. There are many active podcast community. You could even email podcasters directly to ask if they'd be interested.
Also, "You'll be able to download your converted video files in .mp3 or .avi format." Should't that be mp4 file?
Anyway, good luck with the launch!
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Thanks for the feedback and taking time to look at the product. That's a good idea I hadn't thought of. If I get a few podcasters onboard hopefully things will start to snow ball.
Ah yes well spotted. I'll get that fixed!
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@chrispattle You will be creating an API for it if you get traction on the idea? The idea is interesting.
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Yeah definitely, it's on my todo list.
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Congrats on completing your MVP looks promising .
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Good news and I like your idea 👍Just finished mine too after two months. What a moment right!
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Congrats!
I love how the audio in the explainer video sounds boring, which makes the text video look a lot cooler 😂
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Yes unfortunately I have a very boring voice and a cheap microphone. If I start earning money I'll pay someone to record some sample audio clips for me.
P.S Thanks for checking out the product
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I don't know, I actually thought that by using a boring voice it shows more that the video transcription makes it more interesting. I would test both a boring voice and a really nice, narrator voice to see what makes the product stand-out more, or even showcase this as a feature (eg. makes boring audio more engaging)
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Wow, impressive! Good luck 👍
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Are you using any 3rd party API ?
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I needed this a few weeks ago for a one time thing. The issue was the company I found was charging a crazy amount relative to what the service did (can’t remember the name but it was one of the main ones). I can only speak for my need, but I need a sound graph image / graphic that pulsated with the sound and subtitles at the bottom. Congratulations on finishing.
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Over the past few months I've noticed audiograms being used more and more for marketing material. I've always thought they're pretty neat but didn't have to skills to make them myself.
That's when I came up with the idea of automating them and textreel was born.
The idea is that users will upload their audio files and the textreel will convert this into an eye catching video.
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wow, this is cool! Target social platform (video size)presets like insta, twitter, facebook and have branding to hook back to your site! Companies are good, but "generic-advice-storyteller" crowd on insta and fb will love this tool.