In this episode of Start Us, Rob and I are going to be talking about our predictions for 2019.

This is Start Us, the Restafist, episode 424.

Welcome to Startus to Restis, the podcast helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs.

The awesome at building, launching, and growing software products. Whether you built your first product

or you're just thinking about it. I'm Mike. And I'm Rob. And we're here to share your experiences

to help you with the same mistakes we've made. What's going on this week, Rob? You know, I'm kind of

stoked that my first book, Start, Small, Stay Small is now live on Audible, only eight short years after I originally recorded and have been

selling the audiobook. So what happened is back when I released, when I published the book,

and I recorded an audio version within a few months of releasing it, Audible wouldn't let

individuals post audiobooks. So like I couldn't, there was no user ability. And I emailed them and said,

hey, I've self-published a book and it's popular and it's, you know, getting traction and such.

And I have a podcast. So there's a lot of people that want to hear the audio version, but how do I get

this in? And they're like, yeah, we don't really offer that. You have to go through a publisher. So I just never did. And I've been selling, you know, basically the audio version from the website,

startup book.net is where it kind of starts small, stay small lives.

But within a few years, I think they did release the ability to do that.

And then it just wasn't a priority when I'm building and growing companies and running

conferences.

It's like kind of the last thing on the list. But I've had the last

several months off, as you know, and I had the audio files. They had to be re-engineered and remastered.

And it's still the same reading, but it had to be re-rendered at a certain, you know,

resolution or whatever. And luckily, I still had the original source files from 2010 because the MP3s I had

that I've been selling are not at the bit rate that they need for, for Audible these days.

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