mickel
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
- https://www.partly.ai - AI profile picture/art generator. - https://tayl.app - convert all text to audio and listen as a podcast. - https://www.podopi.com - similar to the one above, but marketed towards website owners.
Partly allows users to submit 10-15 photos of themselves or someone they know, which are then pre-processed and used to train a custom AI model with Dreambooth.
The model is then used to render 10 artworks each in 22 different styles (220 images in total), and the resulting images are post-processed, upscaled, and converted to webp format before being delivered to the user via email.
Despite the recent popularity of similar services, I believe the unique styles offered by Partly set it apart. Either way, it was a fun project and I'm happy with how it turned out.
I share the projects I'm working and blog about my journey as an Indie Hacker.
The app is written in Elixir and I work solo on dev/design, but have a co-founder that focuses on marketing and growth. Get in touch if you'd like to hear more!
Podopi was built in Elixir, a functional programming language I've never used before. Elixir is widely different from JavaScript/NodeJS and the tools I'm used to. It made the learning curve quite steep, but somewhere halfway down the path it all started to "click" for me. Elixir is a beautiful language that comes with many benefits from running on the BEAM (Erlang virtual machine). Phoenix/Elixir comes packed with many great features that makes it possible to ship products and features quickly, with confidence.
Feedback appreciated!
This release brings not only support for more languages and voices (now totalling 180+ voices in 30+ languages), but also marks TAYL's entry on the smartphone market. With native apps for iOS and Android you can bring your Tales with you at all times, and create new Tales easily right from your phone's share sheet
Now it's easier than ever to integrate TAYL with thousands of other apps and workflows without writing a single line of code. Send tweets straight to your podcast for listening, subscribe to a blog and listen to each new post or send your Tale's audio version to your own website for publishing. The possibilities are endless, and I can't wait to hear about the creative use-cases you come up with!
All of the above is nice, but my primary goal of version 2.0 is to make TAYL accessible to more people worldwide. I try to do this with the introduction of a new plan, called Standard. It's an affordable plan that gives you 5-7 hours of audio per month, using the standard voices, for the low price of a single coffee ️
I'll be answering any questions about the v2 launch here or on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tayl-2-0
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mickel; my proof: https://keybase.io/mickel/sigs/Td-mkKfpmCOmlxcZ-SLWxn__XgokrcO3X2ZJtIU6TaE ]