The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by jedberg on Monday September 16, 2019 @03:19PM (#20987594)

I'm impressed with the profit margins. It looks like one of the main sources of revenue is transcription. From what I can tell the price seems to be about $4/hr.

OP said they are AWS. If they're using Amazon Transcribe, the cost for that is $1.44/hr.

A 150%+ profit margin is awesome! Well for that one piece of the service. Obviously at least some of the cost of the website and database, etc must be included, but still. Pretty amazing.

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Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by tudorpavel on Monday September 16, 2019 @03:45PM (#20987846)

The post mentions using Google speech-to-text for transcription which seems to be even cheaper?

I'm not sure where you got the $4/hr price, but indeed kudos to OP for building a business around reselling cloud services for profit.

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Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by HillaryBriss on Monday September 16, 2019 @03:52PM (#20987914)

I'm guessing the $4/hr price estimation is based on an average of the prices ListenNotes actually charges to transcribe a podcast, as shown on ListenNotes.com for various individual episodes.

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Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by jedberg on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:02PM (#20989012)

Yep exactly. I randomly sampled some podcasts and looked at the cost vs how long they were.

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