Jack McDermott

Growth and marketing · @elevenlabs · building @elevenreader

[Jack McDermott @Jackmc]

We’ve been busy. 11 things that are new in @elevenreader 👇

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– how do you run balance free trials when every trial burns tokens?
– what do on-device models mean for AI products as work shifts offline?
– how do you handle "whales" or power users with heavy token use?
– what AI product features actually compound into retention + revenue?

great discussion. glad to share what we've learned at @ElevenLabs from our experiments as consumer AI keeps growing

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spoke with @Reforge's AI Strategy students today led by @ravi_mehta

top questions on their minds:

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this team cooks 🔥

[Nev Flynn @NevFlynn]

Design at ElevenLabs, 2026.

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@bhalligan @HubSpot @dharmesh https://t.co/E32IidBZtO

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@ammaar @elevenreader Jump in, sign in and start reading aloud my friend

[Jack McDermott @Jackmc]

We’ve been busy. 11 things that are new in @elevenreader 👇

[Jack McDermott @Jackmc]

Major shoutouts @robertvklinken @marcin_jelenski @gk0io and our @ElevenLabs team

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1. Improved Voice Design for custom narrators
2. Kindle now picks up right where you stopped
3. Smoother CarPlay handoffs 🚗
4. Chapters + in-book search for Kindle books
5. Suggested collections in your Library
6. Sign in to international Kindle stores
7. Spotlight search, find reads from your iOS home screen
8. True black mode 🌑
9. Paged mode: swipe anywhere to turn the page
10. Faster, cleaner settings & navigation, less clutter
11. Native iPhone Duo support from day one

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@SergDort @faendell let us know how it goes. we just shipped a better way to organize and collect all your related fics into collections

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@19rannrann thanks for using! let us know any feedback

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🗽 is live

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

Hello, New York.

The ElevenLabs Summit just kicked off.

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@KazeNoFantasia @finalfAIntasy Will DM you!

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@PorchSwingBots @mejarch @bot @elevenreader super cool, nice use of @elevenreader

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@FabioAngela79 @jamesonhodge Super cool -- odds you have an open-source version? Would love to iterate and play with it

[Wonder Studios @WonderStudiosX]

This isn't a movie trailer. It's for an audiobook

@WonderStudiosX x @elevenreader

We built a narrative around a single listener being pulled deep into the story, fully immersive

2 weeks from start to finish
Thank you @elevenreader for trusting us

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@WillManidis Adding to my @elevenreader now 🎧

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@finalfAIntasy @KazeNoFantasia let us know if you'd like in on the early beta where every character gets a unique voice

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@KazeNoFantasia thanks for the shoutout. we're also introducing character voices soon if you would like to join the early beta

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@daniel_james congrats! Epic run

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RT @ElevenCreative: Frankenstein, a cinematic audiobook made with ElevenCreative.

A full cast of library voices, an original score and sou…