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by evan_ry 697 days ago
Come on, what's your problem, man?

I explained what I did in detail. I'm open in the comment section and explained my reasoning regarding the pricing. I've made practically no money off of this project so far.

There is an option to cache, but there is also an option to crowd-source, which makes the price for the first person smaller.

Moreover, if you try to buy an 'hour plan' for $15 and listen to any PG book, you will not be billed for the converted chunk, so the caching works as you'd expect.

Flagging feels so exteremely unfair.
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vsuperpower2021 697 days ago
You seem to understand english well enough that you know that the title, as stated, is a lie. It's simply not true regardless of whatever rationalizations you can come up with. You barely making money off it doesn't make it true. Users being able to buy a $15/month subscription to listen to 10 hours of audio doesn't make it true.
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evan_ry 697 days ago
1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie.

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post. I cannot describe the implementation detail in the short title.

It's just that you decided to believe that it's a lie, saying it very confidently, and taking down the post that was received generally very positively.

2. It's not a subscription, it's one-time purchase of hours.

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ilaksh 697 days ago
It's not all on you. I can see that culturally in marketing this has become acceptable for many people. I just think it is unfair for people who want to be honest in their titles or thumbnails etc. But that's not really the standard. I was just complaining about something, not about you only.
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evan_ry 697 days ago
I really didn't intend to be dishonest.

I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure needed for that), and tried to clarify everything in the post itself.

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evan_ry 697 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194
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