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Show HN: Audio Search for Podcasts

rezashirazian — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.elasticpod.com/pod/the-daily-by-the-new-york-times-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530056

Points: 1

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New comment by rezashirazian in "GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal”"

rezashirazian — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 08:41:52 +0000

Some believe the other stocks are being pumped by the funds either through direct purchases or flooding social medias to divert focus from GME.

Show HN: Elastic Pod – In audio search for podcasts

rezashirazian — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:06:57 +0000

Article URL: https://elasticpod.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197038

Points: 9

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New comment by rezashirazian in "Show HN: Building a podcast search engine using all AWS services"

rezashirazian — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:32:34 +0000

I would love to talk more about it if you're interested. I posted my email below if you'd like we can set up a skype and I'll answer anything you'd want to know.

New comment by rezashirazian in "Show HN: Building a podcast search engine using all AWS services"

rezashirazian — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:18:51 +0000

Sure! my email is reza.shirazian at gmail and my twitter is @kingreza

Show HN: Building a podcast search engine using all AWS services

rezashirazian — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:11:15 +0000

I built a service that tracks a podcast, transcribes its episodes, and indexes it for search. I have a sample prototype rigged for the Joe Rogan Experience at https://www.jamiepullup.com.

The service is a swift console app, all the processing, transcribing and indexing happens on various AWS services (EC2 to host the site and run the service, S3 for storage, Amazon Transcribe for transcription and Amazon Cloud Search for search)

Getting this up and running wasn't cheap, thank god for the activate program.

If you have any questions regarding any of these technologies, I'd be more than happy to answer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563785

Points: 1

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New comment by rezashirazian in "Show HN: Jamie, pull up – Podcast search engine rigged for The Joe Rogan podcast"

rezashirazian — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:55:21 +0000

Little back story for more context:

A few weeks ago I was listening to Joe's episode with Tony Hinchcliffe. At some point, the discussion leads to Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. The conversation then devolves into this hypothetical situation where Cruise dies while performing a stunt and how odd it would be to watch the movie knowing Cruise dies in it. Or whether people would actually go see the movie. As morbid as the whole conversation was, I thought it was hilarious.

Days go by and I start to think back to that episode. I try to remember who the guest was so I can look it up and listen to it again, specifically the discussion around Tom Cruise. But I just couldn't remember anything. Surprisingly youtube search wasn't that helpful either. All I could remember from the episode was the phrase "Tom Cruise snuff film".

That's when I thought it would be great to be able to search Joe's podcasts (or any podcast for that matter). I spent some time researching what it would take to build out a search engine specific for a podcast. And after a few weeks of working on it, I got a prototype up and running.

And now if you look up "Tom Cruise snuff film", it brings up the episode and the specific spot where the discussion starts:

https://jamiepullup.com/search?q=Tom+Cruise+snuff+film

New comment by rezashirazian in "Show HN: Jamie, pull up – Podcast search engine rigged for The Joe Rogan podcast"

rezashirazian — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:23:22 +0000

I'm using AWS transcribe. I would love to eventually train my own model specifically for each podcast. For this specific instance, since Joe is moving the Spotify soon, I'm not sure the investment is worth it.

New comment by rezashirazian in "Show HN: Jamie, pull up – Podcast search engine rigged for The Joe Rogan podcast"

rezashirazian — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:20:57 +0000

I'm using AWS's Cloud Search. I'm not sure what's actually behind it but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Lucene based.

Show HN: Jamie, pull up – Podcast search engine rigged for The Joe Rogan podcast

rezashirazian — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://jamiepullup.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503991

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

Ask HN: How do casual mobile games make money?

rezashirazian — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 04:20:00 +0000

The numbers don't add up. I've been running multiple ad campaigns on Facebook, Google and App Store Ads and I cannot figure out how casual mobile games make money. At the same time, I want to know if it's the weakness of the game, the campaign set up or this is just how business is done in this field right now.

With the average cost of an install ranging from $0.90 to $2.00 I've gotten around 3500 downloads and 1500 in organic downloads totaling 5000.

The current LTV (lifetime value) is $0.20 per user.

20% of those who download the game, stick around after the first week. Out of the 5000, I've received 96 purchases and once you add the in-game reward ads, it totals $920.

What I don't understand is how do you make money if it costs 2x, 3x the LTV to get a customer. Is there a threshold you hit and the numbers reverse? Do you start to get more organic downloads because of the campaigns? Do you just have to stick with your best performing campaign beyond the 5000 downloads?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23375426

Points: 2

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New comment by rezashirazian in "Square announces permanent work-from-home policy"

rezashirazian — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:36:08 +0000

They are tweeps

Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using Square's Workflow, Blueprint and Listable

rezashirazian — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:31:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kingreza/HackerNews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930091

Points: 4

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Square hires Amrita Ahuja as its new CFO

rezashirazian — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/03/square-hires-amrita-ahuja-as--cfo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819397

Points: 2

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New comment by rezashirazian in "YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess"

rezashirazian — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 05:30:08 +0000

This is a very good point. Top youtubers definitely have the resources to put up a decent fight and add a certain level of consequence for haphazard video claims by the Music Companies.

New comment by rezashirazian in "Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities"

rezashirazian — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:01:58 +0000

Trying to find cheap engineering is not a last ditch effort Amazon is going to resort to because there is a recession.

They have already expanded their engineering foot print in India and have continued to look beyond the US market when it comes to talent.

New comment by rezashirazian in "Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless"

rezashirazian — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:14:17 +0000

Places that get cold usually have less homelessness.

New comment by rezashirazian in "I know why rejection emails suck – I write them"

rezashirazian — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:42:06 +0000

TripleBye articles are generally bad. They're a mishmash of random ideas that feel A/B tested for the highest possible SEO return. I still remember reading through this: https://triplebyte.com/blog/a-taxonomy-of-programmers when it was first published trying to make sense of it.

New comment by rezashirazian in "Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?"

rezashirazian — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 20:29:30 +0000

You monster!

New comment by rezashirazian in "Building a Kickass Portfolio"

rezashirazian — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:57:13 +0000

https://reza.codes is mine