Hello Bootstrapped World!
I’ve been following @mijustin for a while now and purchased @limedaring’s hello web design book, which listed this forum as a great place to get feedback.
I don’t know how I didn’t discover this forum sooner…
Anyhow, about myself - I live in the Seattle area and have 2 kids aged {currentYear - 2013} and {currentYear - 2016}. and I have a full time job - my SaaS is just my side project I started in 2016.
About my SaaS - My Orator is a tool that tries to help people consume their web content - it lets you queue up web-articles, convert them to speech - you can then use your podcast app to add a personal xml feed to it. This way, you can listen to those saved web articles on the commute home. (so far, it works well with Medium and news sites).
Currently, I’m struggling to get just a few testimonials, I’ve been emailing the users, but response is nonexistent. So if you try it and you like it, let me know. I will return the favor and leave a testimonial for you if you need one (or do you another favor).
I would appreciate any feedback on My Orator (if suitable, please add it to my Product Hunt page discussion if you have an account - link is at the bottom). I’ll just end off with some benefits.
- No need to create an account (just log in with Google)
- Integrates with Pocket
- You can tag your articles and get the feed for the playlist with tag ‘blah’
- You can play your articles on Amazon Echo (by track title or by tag name)
- I’m in the middle of trying to launch a Chrome extension, which I’ll post later in “show bootstrapped” - can be activated by shortcut key so you don’t need to clutter your toolbar
- Planning to make the parser smarter - will extract .mp3 links from page and use that as the audio
Check it out and let me know your thoughts (or just click the upvote button - I need all the social proof I can get).
I’d be more than happy to provide feedback on your product in return.