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Impressively, in just 1 month, it climbed into the [top 40 tech podcasts chart on Spotify](https://www.wondercraft.ai/post/ai-podcast-enters-top-50-in-28-days).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71541&key=user_uploads/1010390/0578d4af-68b2-4a03-8930-1fca74a0c5af)\n\n\\\n**💲Opportunity: The Exciting Future of Podcasting**\n\nPodcasting is on the brink of a big change. AI tools are making it easier than ever to start your own podcast and connect with your audience.\n\nWhat's more, we see a future where podcasts are tailor-made for every listener. With AI making the audio, the only hurdle left is picking the content - a challenge that many have already mastered. Want to learn more? Reach out to [team@wondercraft.ai](mailto:team@wondercraft.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ibt-wondercraft-create-studio-quality-podcasts-in-seconds", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-05-12T16:18:07.685Z" }, { "id": 65039, "title": "Moonshot - Angel Investing in athletes 🏈🎾⚽️🏀🚀", "tagline": "Support you favourite athlete early on, share some of their future success", "body": "**tl;dr** 🏈🎾⚽️🏀\n\nWith Moonshot you can angel invest in athletes. We enable promising athletes to fund their professional journey with the help of a community of backers, in exchange for a portion of their earnings when they make it.\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Youssef](https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-rizk-397b19107/) and [Dimitris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-nikolaou-29753080/), co-founders of Moonshot. We met working at Palantir as software engineers and recently left to build on a mission that is near and dear to our hearts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65039&key=user_uploads/1010390/8bc31829-f3dc-4348-8582-2f85da5d3501)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\n**Becoming a professional athlete is expensive and risky.** Professional tennis players spend more than $100,000 annually to finance tournament fees, travel, accommodation, coaching, etc, which is prohibitive for most mere mortals. As a result, only those privileged enough to sustain this deficit can really make it in the sport. This is a real problem for those with underprivileged backgrounds, but don’t just take our word for it, take Hollywood’s. [The Blind Side](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/) (true story) and [Hustle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8009428/) capture this essence in their storylines.\n\n**How do we solve this? We bring supporters to the rescue**\n\nBack your favourite up-and-coming athlete by investing in their career! When they make it big, you’ll have secured the ultimate bragging rights, and you’ll make a nice return on your investment in the form of a cut (think \\~5-10%) on their future earnings.\n\nAthletes get the money they need to continue their professional career. Backers get to meaningfully support their favourites and a significant financial stake in their success. Win win.\n\n**Some concrete use cases we’ve come across**\n\n1. Individual sports (Tennis, Golf and Motorsports) - capital may act as a catalyst, by providing the opportunity to fund competition participation and better coaching.\n2. Team sports (Basketball and Football) - capital may act as an insurance policy. A college athlete can capitalise on the potential of a future large contracts in the NBA or NFL.\n3. In most sports, there are one-off career changing events - think of preparation for the NFL Draft Combine, or making a run for the Olympics. Capital may act as a bridge in order for the athlete to reach peak level at the time of the event.\n\n**Want to contribute**\n\n1. Sign up to our backers [waitlist](https://moonshot.li/). We’re launching in September and spots are limited (250).\n2. Know athletes who could benefit from Moonshot? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a talent referral bonus if they sign up!\n3. Know backers who’d passionately love to invest in a sport? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a backer referral bonus.\n4. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86677997), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/moonshotli/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/moonshot_li)!\n\n**quick blurb to copy & paste**: Check out this YC company that is building a platform that allows you to support your favourite up and coming athlete by investing in their career. [This](http://www.moonshot.li/) is their website - contact [founders@moonshot.li](mailto:founders@moonshot.li) for more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gv1-moonshot-angel-investing-in-athletes", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2022-08-01T14:25:50.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 29964, "name": "Overlap", "slug": "overlap", "former_names": [ "Vastly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4998b9bdb179ae20d8af8c2a3631f5ca038a41d2.png", "website": "https://www.overlap.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Overlap builds multimodal AI agents that can do literally anything you want related to video, such as finding specific moments, generating clips, or analyzing your video library. \r\n\r\nWhat takes media companies thousands of hours, we do in seconds. 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