Hey HN Community!<p>Ben Grynol here – I’m one of the co-founders of Thisten (thisten.co)<p>Thisten is an audio-to-text platform where transcripts are created and aggregated from podcasts, for people to search, reference and discover.<p>When we first started building Thisten, our product was much different – it was a platform where we transcribed speaker sessions at conferences to make them more accessible.<p>We joined Startup School this past winter, and were getting relatively good growth with the product that we had built. Over the course of 2 months, we went from $0 to $10,125 in revenue, and gained ~4,000 users, with ~1,000 of them being MAUs.<p>After conferences started getting cancelled recently, the writing was on the wall – our revenue stream was no longer viable. We did a micro-pivot last week, and rebuilt our product to become better for searching and consuming podcast transcripts.<p>For our launch, we've transcribed more than 2,000 episodes of 160 podcasts, and added them to the network – from True Crime to Tech, and Comedy to Culture. The transcripts aren’t perfect and are ~95% accurate, since our tech is built using AI and ML models for Speech to Text.<p>Our team learned the ropes of developing tech by helping to build one of the most impactful on-demand food delivery companies in the world – SkipTheDishes – into a multi-billion dollar company from its early days.<p>Now we're taking everything we learned about scaling startups, and are building the world's largest database of transcripts.<p>Thisten will be updated daily with new transcripts, as podcast episodes are released. You might not find what you're looking for, but you'll be sure to find something.<p>We’d love your feedback <3