Shareholdr -- update

[ashleighny2016]

Hi everyone!

Two weeks ago, my cofounder and I launched Shareholdr — an app that lets you listen to startup essays by PG, Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, and Marc Andreessen.

After the launch, we got a bunch of great feedback so I wanted to do a quick followup post on the changes we've made.

Updates/Improvements

1. Now all essays are read in the author's voice
2. Added listening speed controls: .75x, 1.25x, 1.5x, and 2x
3. Added essays by Paul Buchheit, Travis Kalanick, and the entire YC blog archive (read in Michael Seibel's voice)
4. Added a share button to each essay
5. Added optional X sign-in to let you keep track of which essays you've listened to
6. Added a like button so you can save your favorite essays
7. Added listen count to each essay

Planning to add Bill Gurley and Ben Horowitz's blog posts in the next update.

We're working hard to make Shareholdr an incredible resource for founders, so let me know if you'd like us to add any specific author or what features would make it more useful to you.

Also, we created a discord to keep track of feedback.

 

[cptheg3]

@ashleighny2016 Would be keen to use it! Is there an android version?

 

[ashleighny2016]

@cptheg3 Wanted to make sure iOS was really solid first before working on Android, but we'll try to get it done by mid Jan. I'll shoot you a message when its ready

 

[teacup64]

@ashleighny2016 that's so cool!!!!

 

[dreamasamemory2002]

@ashleighny2016 which service are you guys using for text to speech?

 

[ashleighny2016]

@dreamasamemory2002 ElevenLabs

 

[sweetheart1]

@ashleighny2016 I used eleven labs for my podcasr, I am curious about trading data, could you share more

 

[avrenius]

@ashleighny2016 Discord link seems to be dead, any update?

 

[ashleighny2016]

@avrenius We stopped working on Shareholdr in Jan. Sorry.

 

[kristinat]

@ashleighny2016 Thoughts on publishing on Spotify?