An engineer in Mumbai started building an ebook manager in 2006. Twenty years later, almost 3 million people across 236 countries open it every two months.
His name is Kovid Goyal. The software is called Calibre. He still maintains it as principal developer. The last release shipped a week ago.
It is free. It is GPL-3.0 open source. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Here is what it does in plain words.
You drag an ebook into it. It reads almost every format on Earth. EPUB. MOBI. AZW. AZW3. KFX. PDF. Comics in CBR and CBZ. Word documents. Text files.
You can convert any of those into any other format with two clicks. So the book you bought on Kindle can be read on a Kobo. The PDF your professor sent can be read as an EPUB on your phone. The comic in CBR can be turned into an EPUB.
You can edit the metadata, fix the cover, add tags, organize a library of ten thousand books.
You can send the book to your Kindle, your Kobo, your Tolino, your phone, your tablet straight from the app.
You can run a small content server on your own laptop and read your books on any browser in your house.
24,978 stars on GitHub. 2.9 million active installs in the last 60 days. United States is the biggest user base at 14.8 percent, India is in the top 20, every country on the map has it running somewhere.
This is what your personal library was supposed to look like. A folder of files you own. Not a device that locks you in.
(Link in the comments)
A 48-year-old woman from California who has 4 children asked Claude how she could make money if she didn't have time to do anything?
He gave an answer and her monthly income amounted to $8,543
Claude + Shopify = automated dropshipping
The investment is a $20 subscription to Claude -> the rest is pure profit
Claude comes up with a niche for products by analyzing popular trends, creates clickable descriptions, and generates photos and videos that stand out from the rest
A person pays for the order -> Claude buys it on AliExpress 50-60% cheaper -> the package goes to the buyer
In essence, this is a store managed by a manager instead of you, you just receive the profit
Income:
Week 1 > $1,461
Week 2 > $2,655
Week 3 > $5,822
1 month > $8,543
The full instructions are already publicly available
This girl made $10,000 without leaving her room.
She opened YouTube. Found a kids video with 40 million views. Nobody's name on the channel. No face anywhere. Just a cartoon about counting and colors.
She copied the link. Pasted it into PixArt Flow. Pressed generate.
Five minutes later she had a video that looked exactly like it.
She posted it. Went to sleep.
Woke up to 4,000 views.
A 3 year old doesn't have a skip button in their head. They just watch. Until the screen goes dark. Then they cry until someone turns it back on.
YouTube counts every second of that. Rewards it. Pushes the video to the next kid.
$66/month in tools. No face. No name on the channel.
Month 3. $10,000.
She still doesn't have her name on anything.