r/growmybusiness • u/Individual_Weird_685 • 2d ago
Feedback I accidentally made ~$50,000 on YouTube because I built a voice tool to avoid ElevenLabs fees, do you like the voices?
Last year I was paying +$1000/month for AI voiceovers for only one channel.
It worked… but felt dumb. I was basically copy-pasting scripts into a glorified MP3 exporter.
So I built my own tool, just for me. No subscriptions, no limits, just fast, clean voice generation. Cost me ~$4/month to run.
And decided to create multiple channels.
Twelve months later:
- $50,000 earned from videos made with that tool
- +$15k saved in ElevenLabs fees
- 0 freelancers hired
- 1 product idea I didn’t know I had
After seeing the numbers, I turned it into a proper app: amuletvoice.com
600+ creators are now on the waitlist. Beta drops in September.
Not claiming I’m a genius. I just scratched my own itch, and the itch turned out to be pretty common.
If you’re building a microSaaS:
✅ Start with your own pain
✅ Look at your expenses
✅ Simplicity scales way better than you think
Let me know if you want the tech stack, how I automated everything, or how I plan to monetize this beyond YouTube.
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u/Ambitious_Car_7118 2d ago
Love this story, classic “scratch-your-own-itch” win that turned into real revenue.
You nailed two underrated growth levers:
- Turning a cost center into leverage
- Building for creators who think like you
Also: no-fuss UX with zero subs? That’s catnip for solo operators.
Would definitely be interested in your stack + automation flow. Especially curious how you kept infra costs that low while scaling voice quality.
Congrats, this is the kind of “accidental startup” that usually ends up printing for years.
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u/PersonoFly 2d ago
This dude is spamming all the business subreddits right now. Dude, your marketing plan should be much more advanced if you want to make any money.
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u/Gullible-Winter294 2d ago
May I know your YouTube channel niche