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Your Words. Your Voice. Everywhere.

NTE Zero to One can help you turn this into a reality.

The One Liner

Make your content talk in your voice.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Turn your writing into audio in your own voice. AI clones your tone, pace, inflection and auto-narrates your newsletter or blog.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem

Writing is leverage. But people don’t read anymore. They listen.

You spend hours crafting a newsletter, a killer blog post, or a heartfelt LinkedIn rant. And then people skim it while half-watching Netflix.

Want to make it hit harder? Add audio.

But recording yourself reading a blog post feels cringe. Or time-consuming. Or both. And hiring voice talent? Nah. It’s your ideas, they should sound like you.

We’re in the age of AI voice cloning, and most creators are still using screenshots.

The Solution

Imagine this:

• You publish a blog post or newsletter.

• The tool auto-generates an audio version.

• It sounds exactly like you, tone, pacing, even your awkward pauses.

• You drop the audio on your site, in your podcast feed, or as voice replies on X.

Now your audience can hear you while driving, walking, or pretending to work.
And you just became a podcast host without ever touching a mic.

It’s like turning your Substack into Spotify.

How We’d Build It

Beginner Stack (Weekend MVP)

• Voice Clone: Use ElevenLabs or Play.ht to clone the user’s voice (both have scary-good realism).

• Frontend: Framer or Typedream for a clean landing page + upload UI.

• Text Input: Pull from RSS, Notion, or Zapier integration for automatic ingest.

• Audio Output: Embed a player (e.g. Podlove) or auto-publish to Spotify via RSS.com.

• Launch Hook: “Listen to your favorite writer… in their voice.” Share side-by-side audio vs. text samples on X.

Intermediate Stack (Post-Traction Builder)

• Fine-Tuning Voice: Let users tweak tone (energetic, calm, storytelling).

• Dynamic Insertions: Add automated intros/outros or CTAs (“sponsored by,” “subscribe here”) with Resemble AI.

• Distribution: One-click share to podcast apps, audiograms for social, autoplay on blogs.

• Monetization: Paid tiers for usage + “pro voice” pack (e.g. Morgan Freeman mode for fun).

Pro Mode (If This Blows Up)

• Use Case Expansion:

  • Founders auto-narrating investor updates.

  • Execs turning memos into company-wide audio.

  • Influencers voice replying at scale to fans.

• Tool Add-On: Voice + visual = instant short-form content. Combine with Veed.io to generate talking head videos without recording.

• Network Effects: Build a "listen to this in the author's voice" widget. Embed everywhere.

Why It Needs to Exist

Because creators shouldn't need to clone themselves manually.

Because a voice builds trust 10x faster than a font.

Because one podcast = 10X reach vs. one blog post.

And because hearing someone say “this changed my life” in your voice hits different.

Let your content do the talking. Literally.

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You scribbled it on a napkin at dinner

Right between the appetizers and your friend’s story you weren’t really listening to.

It felt weirdly good. Sharp. Like maybe this was something.

Then the check came. The napkin got folded, stuffed in a pocket, forgotten.

Weeks later, you find it doing laundry.
Still a great idea. Still… nothing done.

NTE Zero to One is for exactly that moment.

We help you go from napkin sketch to working product—before life buries it again.

$49 to bring that wrinkled idea back to life.

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Tinder for Startup Ideas: AI Clone Voice Edition

It’s pitch night, but make it dating app rules.

Three panelists. One wild idea. Everyone gets to swipe.

Tonight’s pitch:

“It clones your voice using AI. Then auto-narrates your blog or newsletter so your audience hears it in your voice, without you recording a thing.”

Swipe left if you’d roast it.
Swipe right if you’d build it.

Swipe Left: The Hater
"Hard no. Nobody even listens to their own voicemails. You think they want to hear themselves narrate their blog like it’s an audiobook for one? Pass.

Also, let’s talk content fatigue, who has time to listen to 5,000 AI-generated blogcasts every week? Feels like the audio version of Medium circa 2015.”

Swipe Left: The Overthinker
“This is the kind of idea you pitch in a group chat at 1am, then wake up and hope no one remembers.

What happens when someone uses it to deepfake Obama into narrating crypto scams? Or when every creator sounds like a robotic clone of themselves?

Also, what’s the moat? If OpenAI adds this to ChatGPT, you’re done.”

Swipe Right: The Believer
“Swipe. HARD.

You don’t get it, this isn’t about you listening to your voice. It’s about your audience feeling like you’re talking directly to them.

People binge 90-minute podcasts. They'll 100% listen to 4 minutes of your best blog post, especially if it sounds like you and not some AI butler from 2016.

And monetization? Easy.

• $10/month to turn your Substack into a podcast.

• Sell voice branding services to execs.

• Turn internal company memos into audio updates from the actual CEO.

It’s a clone once, scale forever model. Hell, one founder could pitch investors in their sleep literally just email a deck and a podcast version of the memo in their voice. Fundraising at 2x speed.”

The Twist:

Turns out the hater secretly cloned his own voice last week to read bedtime stories to his kid. Now he’s thinking about using it for cold email intros.

The overthinker? Just realized creators would pay more for this than for Canva. Might be drafting a deck in the background.

Everyone’s a left swipe until someone else builds it. Then suddenly… it’s obvious.

Final Verdict:
Most people want a bigger audience. This gives you reach without losing your voice.

We swipe right. And if you don’t, AI-you might do it for you.

These Startup Stories Don’t Exist… Yet.

But if they did, you’d be the guest.

You know the drill.

You’re on a podcast.
A little smug. A little tired. Casually sipping a $14 matcha in a VC’s office.
80k users. $4M raised. TechCrunch called you “the startup nobody saw coming.”

And the host leans in:

So where did the idea come from?”

That’s when you say something wild…

“It started with a broken escalator. I realized malls were black holes of lost data.”
(So I built a tool that reverse-engineers why stores fail or pop off. Now we help chains pick perfect locations.)

“I was helping my uncle sell his laundromat and thought, wait, why isn’t this Zillow for SMBs?”
(We now flip 2-3 small businesses a week. No brokers, just a better asset class.)

“My cousin’s a real estate broker. I gave him software. Now he’s a real estate developer.”
(The platform turns real estate brokers into small-time developers. Capital-as-a-service meets Zillow hacks.)

None of these happened… yet.
But the ideas?
Live inside NTE Pro. Right now.

4,500+ ideas designed to punch you in the brain and whisper:

“You could totally build this.”

Just startup gold for the right person.

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