Been building ActorRise for a couple months now and the hardest part isn't the code.
I'm an actor who taught myself to code. Built an AI monologue search because I was sick of wasting hours reading plays just to find one decent audition piece.
Started scraping and cleaning monologue data, and turns out I accidentally built the world's largest searchable monologue database : 8,600+ pieces. Backstage has like 1,100. Other platforms max out at 800. I have 4-8x more than anyone else.
The tech works great - pgvector, semantic search, all that. I use it constantly for my own auditions.
Actors waste 6+ hours reading plays to find one monologue.
ActorRise finds the perfect piece in under 20 seconds using AI search across the world's largest database (8,600+ monologues vs competitors' 1,100).
Just describe what you need: 'funny piece for woman in 20s about family drama.' or even type in a quote "To be or not to be" ActorRise will find your monologue.
Built by a working actor who got tired of wasting time on libraries, old books and tiny databases..
Free tier available.
