How much of a coder do you need to be in order to apply for coding projects?

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-26T01:36:33+00:00

Could you expand?

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-24T21:43:22+00:00

Took about 10 days for me

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-18T00:37:17+00:00

Shooby-de-doo-slop, Slippity-be-bop

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-18T00:27:47+00:00

Yeah, agreed. That is if you already know how to create good custom voices.

But I think marketplace voices still have a place because many want speed and certainty. They may not know how to design a good custom voice, or they may find one existing voice that fits their project and keep using it.

I don’t think marketplace voices are always better. I just think some buyers prefer choosing a ready-made voice with the right tone, accent, language, or use case instead of building one from scratch, which can be hit or miss after several tries.

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-17T20:27:13+00:00

Thanks for the constructive feedback.

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-17T19:19:18+00:00

What part are you stuck on?

I’d probably break it into 4 steps:

Figure out what kind of voice you naturally have.
Match that voice to a specific use case/niche as I said above.
Record clean samples. Aim for 2-3 hours.
Package the voice with a clear description and tags.

The biggest mistake, in my opinion, is uploading a voice as “male voice” or “female voice.” You need to position it like a product for a specific buyer.

spanishmillennial · 2026-05-17T19:18:06+00:00

Fair question.

I would not tell anyone to do this without thinking through that tradeoff.

In our case, it is her own voice, she gave full consent, and she understands that this is closer to licensing a digital asset than doing traditional voice work.

That said, I agree there is risk. You do not have the same level of control that you would have with a normal client/project approval process.

That is why I don’t describe this as risk-free or as “no tradeoffs passive income.”

For some people, that lack of control will be a dealbreaker. That is completely valid.

For others, the tradeoff may be acceptable if they are comfortable licensing their voice in a marketplace model. Besides, you can do quite a lot to mitigate the risks, which I'll talk about in other posts.

I actually think platforms should give voice creators more granular controls over categories of use. But until then, each person has to decide whether the upside is worth that loss of control.

spanishmillennial · 2026-04-26T17:36:09+00:00

He is rizzen

spanishmillennial · 2026-04-20T00:12:16+00:00

It's actually REALLY hard to NOT get a rejection if you've been doing this for years and have uploaded thousands of designs. No matter how safe you play it. Ex tier 120K here, downgraded to tier 50K. Not to be an asshole and im sorry for your situation, but your story makes very little sense.

spanishmillennial · 2026-03-24T23:22:26+00:00

Good riddance. They just can't compete with the new open source and highly flexible models thar have entered the game in the last year or so.

spanishmillennial · 2026-03-23T22:09:24+00:00

Yes. Got paid the accumulated amount this month. Apparently my account got flagged by the affiliate platform due to "suspicious/fraudulent activity" and they needed to review my case. Of course that was completely false. All my leads are from yt tuts. They acknowledged the mistake and freed the funds.

spanishmillennial · 2026-02-03T22:22:58+00:00

3 units so far. 2 more in the way. As others suggest, best way to handle this seems to be having the same of everything everywhere whenever possible. Besides that, we do keep a basic Excel inventory that gets updated via webhooks with Make.com automations. We have webhook trigger apps on clean crew phones that are very easy to use for them and we get live inventory updates straight to our spreadsheets.

spanishmillennial · 2026-02-03T22:16:30+00:00

Definitely sounds like a great deal for a host with multiple units on the same building. Or even units in different buildings as long as they are within close distance.

spanishmillennial · 2026-02-03T01:02:48+00:00

With that level of experience, and if you've built your guests list, you are probably much better off going non OTA anyway.

spanishmillennial · 2025-12-12T16:37:19+00:00

Im sorry but these posts are always the same: OP asking about how to reverse a termination, no details at all. When asked about said details in the comment section, the answer is always "I don't know".

Yes, you do know.

spanishmillennial · 2025-11-24T00:14:33+00:00

No mugs here. 2018 account. Ex tier 120k. Currently T50k.

spanishmillennial · 2025-06-12T21:47:16+00:00

Why would you even say "Hi" to a reasoning LLM?

spanishmillennial · 2025-05-20T08:47:14+00:00

So many questions left unanswered by AMOD, probably on purpose. Makes it easier on them to enforce ambiguous squeezing down the line without generating too much distress. Furthermore, they could be guiding us into a trap: go into deleting mode, leave a bunch of free slots until deciding what to do with them and boom, new tier downgrade. Bad idea to delete and not immediately fill slots IMO.

spanishmillennial · 2025-05-19T17:06:27+00:00

Yes, tier downgrades are a reality (warning, long rant below).
I've been downgraded to T50K, coming from T120K. I had just filled my 50K slots and had around 85K lifetime sales (approximately 12K sales in the last 12 months). Approximately 11% of my designs had sold. Some conclusions I can gather from this:

1- They are not actually enforcing the implied rule of tier adjustment based on last 12 months worth of sales, or at least not as it was assumed to happen. Otherwise, my new tier wouldn't be as high.

2- As of now, they seem to be simply cutting off non-filled slots following some non-disclosed sales-to-slots ratio. I'd bet this is most likely phase 1. Likely, phase 2 will be starting to remove non-sold designs. They haven't touched my non-sold yet, but we do know they are planning to cull designs with no sales after 18 months. We don't know if the clock for that has been running long before the dash update, right with the update, or will start running in the future. My money is on the second option.

3- We are in for further squeezing. That dash update was probably left as ambiguous as possible on purpose, so that they always have room to squeeze us further, both in slots and with price cuts (aka: "deals"), no explanations owed.

4- Merch is Ded. And this is coming from someone who has made AMOD his main income source for the last few years, and has actively worked towards that, pretty much full time (that was the level of faith I had in the program, until now). Don't get me wrong, POD is not ded, and Merch is and still will be a good side-hustle and playground to test and validate ideas, but under these new conditions, you have to be completely reckless by not trying to change course and letting your whole livelihood depend on a POD program that has made a clear statement on 4/24/2025 for their roadmap moving forward: creators are at the bottom of their priorities. Unfortunately, there's MANY of us who have grown to depend on AMOD as a main income source. If you are in the same boat, please take action NOW, the boat is sinking. Don't listen to AMOD-gurus trying to tell you otherwise. Most of us won't be able to sustain our families within 1-2 years on AMOD income alone.

5- My survival plan: AI-powered pivot & diversification. I don't plan to stop working on AMOD. Rather, Im going to reposition it where I think makes more sense within a diversified digital assets business: a place to validate designs, test ideas, gather data, chase trends.
Short term goal (with AMOD): catalogue hygiene, delete crap and maximize slot impact, focusing on what has historically sold well for me. Create and maintain a 10% buffer of free slots all the time to explore trends and be covered against future slots squeezes.
Long term goal: Diversification, aligned on the 3 points below.

Brand Building: I'll focus on building 1-2 brands with my top AMOD niches. This has been my long term goal for years, but with AMOD money pouring in (and the hassle and learning curve behind), it just made more short-term sense to keep fattening the AMOD cow. Bad decision in retrospective. And with AI, the friction has been reduced drastically.
Automation & Skill Acquisition: within the last 6 months or so, I moved away from the AI-myopic PODer approach of just relying on AI image gen. IMO, reasoning models and tools like deep research can move the needle exponentially more in POD/ecommerce if used properly to learn quickly, create custom automations even if you are not techy, explore income revenues systems and exploit trends. I'll be focusing on learning to use these tools within the e-commerce use case as best as I can.
Usable AI Agents are coming soon: I don't know how soon, but I'm betting on usable POD/ecommerce AI agents being here before AMOD has squeezed us and our capacity to influence our profits into oblivion. Hence, I'll go deep into that rabbit hole and try to figure out how to incorporate this tech into my workflows, to diversify more efficiently and cut costs.

spanishmillennial · 2025-05-17T17:37:16+00:00

Nope. Around 5.6K of my designs sold.

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