I built, launched, and got paying customers for my side project in 3 hours

Here’s what I learned

Note. Baratunde (capital B) is Baratunde Thurston, the man. baratun.de is the url and working name for this product. It’ll all make sense as you read through the article.

I’d just sat down to my butter coffee and my morning skim through twitter when I came across this tweet from @Jason.

Baratunde Thurston had posted his ad libbed rendition of an article by Jason Calacanis about the new Twitter CEO.

In the ensuing thread, somebody mentioned they’d pay for this as a service — to have essays read aloud.

I’m still not sure why (it just felt right) but I was compelled to drop everything for the morning and turn this into a thing. I wanted to get it out quickly…