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…Cool. I wanted to talk a little bit about the origin story. Yeah. 'cause you, you flagged that Moon Craft was actually moonshot, a big part of Moon Moonshot. Yeah. Was a big part of. You're arriving at this idea. Moonshot was not a tech product. It was a legal product. It was a regulation. It's like, hey, now you can invest in people. The reality is like, I think we were, we just found out the hard way that we were building something people did not want. And, we realized like we're building something that isn't our strengths. So we're like, when we decided to pivot, we were like, we need to do something technical. Okay. The story from there just became like, okay, cool. Let's list some ideas. What are we going to track? Which one do we have the most conviction in? We rank them. And monocraft was the one we had the most conviction. And it was this idea again, expanding access and just translating or your ability to produce content. So. Producing content in one format and then taking that to all the other formats. So we built that, we built the podcast builder, super quick prototype because I think at this point, to anyone pivoting or hard pivoting or considering it The name of the game isn't like to get attached to your idea. Just like, actually, you should be trying to invalidate this idea as quickly as possible. So get it out there and let people tell you it's a piece of shit. Okay, so what did you do to get it out there? So we built it out. We built out a little like UI. Literally no authentication. It was a form where what you guys see now on our platform, which is like the content, script, page, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was one page. Like, you click, and it was the most janky React stuff that we had. Zero authentication, so in theory, if people found it, they could just, you know, produce as much audio as they wanted. So we have a feature on our app, which is like test with example. As soon as you log in and says test with example. And the whole point of that was like to between login. And audio generated, how few clicks does this take? Yeah, and yours was? Like two or three clicks. It's like test, create podcast. You like pre filled everything. Generate script, generate audio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, so, and arguably that was still too many clicks. We should probably put something on the actual landing page so that like you can see. Yeah, now you have just a player there, right? You can just kind of listen to the Hacker News Daily thing. But what signals did you get from doing that?…

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