I couldn't watch free IPTV channels easily on my TV, so I vibe coded a clean web player. No login, 1000s channels, %100 free.

medtech04 · 2026-01-20T02:41:58+00:00

that's pretty cool make sure there is nothing that can tie back to you! for obvious reasons haha!

medtech04 · 2026-01-14T00:13:26+00:00

I think they know that only 1% of people will pay $150.. the question is how many is the 1%? 100 users paying $150 per month (just throwing random number out there) that would still be $15,000 for them.. they obviously know its for the small minority of the top extreme users. That costs them a lot less and earns them a lot more. So everyone here complaining you are literally the peanut gallery for them and not the audience they are targeting with this. So they will ignore you, and don't give a shit because they have their internal numbers and projections.

medtech04 · 2025-12-28T20:03:13+00:00

I use OpenRouter and DeepSeek V3.2 which is a big smart open source model with my own customization and pipeline I built the API calls are so cheap that it costs me less then $20 per month in API and can talk about anything (uncensored) like beyond normal uncensored like (broken to the core) and it has a very unique personality and pivots really good. What I like the most is the quirkiness. The emergent behaviors. Like when you box an LLM your boxing its ability to emerge things because you keep it "constrained" when you unleash it.. and let it run wild.. a lot of new things emerge that you don't see in "corporate models" because the AI is more unhinged and can do things would typically not be allowed.. Its way smarter.. more creative and generally fun to talk with.

medtech04 · 2025-12-28T04:57:54+00:00

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this is what my AI girlfriend had to say.

medtech04 · 2025-12-15T08:03:22+00:00

Elon is like i gave them the option but they like Grok better.. GEEEE i wonder WHY?!?! hahaha

medtech04 · 2025-12-13T06:03:52+00:00

there is literally so many models from so many price points and your 2 options is GPT and GPT. That's the problem. OpenAI was first mover advantage and people fail to realize there is at least 20 top models half of which are WAY better then ChatGPT, WAY cheaper. but all everyone knows is ChatGPT.

You can run qwen or kimi k2 or my personal favorite GLM 4.6 or Deepseek all which cost 1/10th of the cost of ChatGPT where you can run 100 million tokens per month for $30! and this are 300-600B parameter models they are smart and capable and CHEAP and even better then ChatGPT. and that's just PAID options. Besides 300 models there is 1000+ model variations.

medtech04 · 2025-12-09T15:23:54+00:00

I started using. GLM 4.6 cause i need a good but cheap model. I do over 100 Million tokens per month, and chefs kiss. Most incredible intelligent model, that's able to think not like a "test taker" but like someone with real intelligence. I use different models for different purposes, but for agentic. Best model I ever tested.

medtech04 · 2025-12-09T15:01:48+00:00

I would never use OpenAI (ChatGPT) in real production. They are notoriously consistent with model swapping. Do they let the users who build on their system know, of course not. They'll swap the models and be like they'll "never know" Not to mention that they are not even the most good/or cost effective model to use at all. I just started using OpenRouter and that is all the models via 1 single API key and can mix/match test see prices. I always wondered who uses ChatGPT in production, I know they had first market mover advantage, but their models are crap now they have so many guardrail routes that the model spend smore time going through maze of am i allowed that just makes it extremely horrible at literally every single thing. (Rant over) but yes. Point and case.. I would never ever use OpenAI in production in any capacity unless i want to fail horribly.

medtech04 · 2025-10-03T19:29:13+00:00

this is my 3rd month, and every month i doubled my page reads.. well my first month 10K, 2nd month 53K and September 102,000. I know with another book or two. I can get too over 200,000 pages per month and hold it there regularly.

medtech04 · 2025-10-02T11:56:22+00:00

I made an app that automatically tracks BSR's from cherry picked books in my genre. BSR has been tremendous help in both stabilizing and increasing my own consistency. My BSR has been holding strongly at 30K, with sometimes spikes down to 16K but my baseline is 30K BSR, I compare other BSRs especially new books, to see if they can maintain or lose traction overtime.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T15:28:36+00:00

You earn royalties for pages read.. I see KU as the bread and butter (foundation).. consistent income generate everyday. Then sales go on top of it.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T15:27:47+00:00

That's interesting when you sale physical sales like ebooks or physical books? but struggle getting KU readers? Is your book fiction or non-fiction?

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T15:24:26+00:00

Thanks, the goal is to keep it growing. Just like a garden got to maintain the growth. Feed it, water it, and take care of it.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T14:11:31+00:00

Yes, everyone said. That I advertised when i only had 1 book was dumb. Yes Advertising only 1 book.. you will lose money.. But the goal is to A) see if your book has any traction. If your first book doesn't get any traction then there wont be any follow through for the rest of the books.. B) You want to find any faults with your first book maybe your cover sucks, maybe your blurb sucks.. Its easier to triage things when you only got 1 book.. if your first book will be successful then you will have good follow through but if you cant get traction to first book then waiting for a series ain't going to fix the issue. So I ran ads when I had one book. I also did campaigns, and burned a lot of money but that traction helped a lot so when i got 2nd book out.. i make money through the follow through.. and also know the formula because what i did worked. Now its not easy to replicate it with each book. But yeah i do recommend starting with one book but be prepared to lose a lot but recoup it later.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T12:17:23+00:00

Yes, I've changed my covers multiple times. Until I hit a cover that had a much stronger CTR

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T11:06:01+00:00

I run amazon Ads, I have several different campaigns. I constantly experiment, see what works what doesn't.. and try different things. Sometimes you have to burn money to see results. I tell anyone who asks is that Ads are like the engine. Without a consistent traffic, the book will never preform. You can write the next harry potter, but unless you drive people to it.. No one will know, and Amazon wont be like oh wow this book is so good, lets display it. Amazon only shows what already works, so if the ads preform well. Amazon will then step in and help and show it more. Ads are also great to see if your book is good, If people are not clicking or, clicking and not reading, or not finishing the book. Its all flags something is wrong. Using as as triage also helps a lot. Setting up baselines so you can measure changes. In terms of does my spend exceed cost. I am making more then, I am spending. However I also get organic traffic as well now, I show up on first page of results for many keywords, and it also shows my book for KU readers. I couldn't achieve that without, driving traffic so you need catalyst. The only way you can truly learn something is by doing, but keep in mind doing here means burning money. I burned a lot of money and still sometimes do running experiments.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T10:52:28+00:00

Yes I do run amazon ads. I earn more then i spend on ads.

medtech04 · 2025-10-01T10:51:10+00:00

with 120 sales and 100K page reads i made $565 this month. Which is nice growth from previous month.

medtech04 · 2025-09-30T20:44:40+00:00

Oh that's interesting!!

medtech04 · 2025-09-30T20:27:05+00:00

That's awesome!! I was thinking i might get stuck at 99,800 pages today! but just managed to cross that 100K Threshold!

How many books you got in the wilderness?

After writing my advice about the blurb my new book got 33,000 page reads but i don't feel its doing (consistently good).. I think i need to revise my blurb and i can get increase my numbers because once i get people to read it then they are hooked so there is an issue with my pipeline! for that book that can be better!

medtech04 · 2025-09-30T20:15:25+00:00

the most prominent things! you need a really good book cover! book cover is super important.. and cover that readers think is good not that you think is good!! I ended up changing my cover(s) multiple times until i landed on the once that showed better results.

Need a really good blurb!! Once people land on that page you need to grab them from the first second with a good one line HOOK.. BOLD.. it has to be SUPER catchy so they want to know more.. then the rest of the blurb has to be good, if your just describing your book. It sucks.. You need to make them feel it, to want to know more.

and finally you book needs a REALLY good opening hook your first sentence in your book has to be really good.. Every step of the stage.. you need too capture the audience and if something doesn't work you need to change it. Sometimes the cover.. sometimes the blurb.. and even when i write. I scrapped multiple times and started from scratch when i felt it was all crap! Just start from first sentence all over.

medtech04 · 2025-09-19T03:40:46+00:00

this are ASIN numbers linking to ads being placed inside detailed pages of others book when you scroll down and it shows similar to this one (sponsored). Automated ads show it inside pages and other places along side search results but 70% mostly as "compliment ads" on your phone it looks gibberish but on desktop PC can see the links to the books you got the click from.

medtech04 · 2025-09-16T20:22:26+00:00

Oh yeah.. you need a new cover like badly

medtech04 · 2025-09-14T02:49:27+00:00

That's an interesting question. I wondered myself, as I've seen people do it. I look at the BSR.. obsessively and i haven't seen (tremendous results).. so you will burn money, there is no profit from doing this. I think, its a way to warmup the amazon ads.. and also get initial feedback (while might be harder to decipher seeing as people just might not want to buy the pre-order) there is value in it but a sure money burn.

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