... best customers stayed, the bad fit ones left -- I guess the free market works). Comment from eroltoker(@eroltoker): I think you are right with your intuition. I've done both and my second business that I built has been exponentially more successful because of what you said -- people are buying the product as it is, for what it is, and their usage of it is 100% signal and no noise, so I have a source of objective truth to follow ... ... makes pricing easier. Products from anonymous creators compete on price. Products from known practitioners with a track record compete on trust. That's a completely different conversation. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs

... After 2 years of hard work, it's time to face reality. My project to streamline the process of audiobook creation in a few days instead of weeks hasn't worked. Was it a bad idea to create alternatives to ElevenLabs audiobook studio solution that gives the option to the authors to spend 10 times less money for the audiobook production, also cutting the production time by half? Was it a bad idea to offer a familiar video-editor oriented ... ... style design that improved tenfold the barebones existing options that all the text-to-speech providers are currently offering? Was it a bad idea to invest in the audiobook market, a market that is growing exponentially