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My primary goal for this was essentially to make it so anyone could really easily use it, but to also explain how I built it in case anyone would just prefer to build their own.

We live in, essentially, the best and the worst possible time to begin a writing career. There are more authors, self-published and otherwise, out in the world than ever before, and more people are competing for a reader’s time than you might have experienced even as few as five years ago.

Paperbacks offer a level of legitimacy for an author that you simply can’t replace with anything else. You can’t sign an ebook (well, you can with certain online systems and gimmicks, but they don’t compare to the real thing)

If you want to write a story about zombie dragons battling against demonic turtles for the fate of some distant planet called Averstine, you can and no one can stop you. This is your creation and you are only limited by your own imagination.

Eleven labs is pretty awesome, to be honest. It's powerful, let's you convert from text to speech, from speech to speech, and just about anything else you could imagine. It has a dead simple API you can use to generate tons of audio files, and it even has one of the coolest features around:

I’ve been writing and telling stories since I was a little kid. I love to use my imagination and fall into worlds I’ve created, and it’s been the one consistent passion in my life.

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If you have been around the block even a little bit then you likely know what Ahrefs is used for, and you also know that there are a million competitors out there offering similar services.

I spent hours bashing my skull against the problem of not only running a custom react app using ghost, but doing it simply. Now, you don't have to.