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Sell finished work, not software, and fix the process behind it

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Who it’s for
Someone with editing or proofreading skills who wants to test a small service business on a per-minute price.
The lesson
A transcription service can be sold as a plain per-minute price for a finished, checked document, with the work done by a pool of paid reviewers. The founder's own account suggests the hard part is not the website but keeping the human process fast and fair as volume grows.

Who pays and why

Customers upload audio or video and pay per minute for a transcript they can edit and export. The website lists segments such as legal, academic, podcast and marketing content. Legal work is priced higher because it needs set formatting. Buyers are paying to avoid doing slow, tedious work themselves and to get a result a person has checked.

Still inside
  • How it reaches customers
  • What is defensible
  • Where AI can help a newcomer
  • How to start smaller this month
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