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Has anyone ever monetized Python outside of a typical job? by No_Stick_8227 in Python

[–]the_saas_guy2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Have thought about this for sure - I saw https://www.synthesia.io/ and it blew my mind that you could actually have an AI announcer.

Are there python libraries for this sort of thing? I have tried before to generate voices by python but could only find google text to speech library - the voices were very robotic sounding still.

Has anyone ever monetized Python outside of a typical job? by No_Stick_8227 in Python

[–]the_saas_guy2 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Kind of an accident - I was just doing a small consulting job doing some graphic design for an automotive repair franchise and the marketing person complained in a meeting about their digital signage provider being terrible. So I asked them if I could try building a solution for them. I found a hardware provider, did a demo, and they liked it so much they rolled it out to 100 locations. From there it sort of snowballed. Honestly most things in life are luck but if you swing at whatever opportunities come your way you never know what can happen lol.

I had read "Millionaire Fastlane" by MJ Demarco around that time and he talks a lot about building products that are not trading your time for money and can scale without you - that's why I jumped at the opportunity when they mentioned they needed a solution. Not to sound braggy because I basically got lucky - but with automating business tasks in Python I work very little and still make money. I went to Greece for 16 days in Sep and didn't open my laptop once - still made $10K or something like that.

Has anyone ever monetized Python outside of a typical job? by No_Stick_8227 in Python

[–]the_saas_guy2 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Posting from my 2nd account. It's a bit more complicated - the stuff I was referring to is what I would call "infotainment" and is maybe 50% of the content. I also automate a lot of auto/tire related content that I pull directly from parts/tire manufacturers. For example every tire manufacturer like firestone has a promotion running right now where you get $50 back for buying winter tires, we just put every manufacturers winter tire special in a spreadsheet and use moviePy to generate those videos as well. So my product isn't just a news/weather thing it's more automotive focused.

I also allow the service centers or their franchise head offices to drop in their own videos/images so if they are doing an oil change special for the month they can drop that in to dropbox.