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Built the world's largest monologue database, now what?

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Been building ActorRise for a couple months now and the hardest part isn't the code.

I'm an actor who taught myself to code. Built an AI monologue search because I was sick of wasting hours reading plays just to find one decent audition piece.

Started scraping and cleaning monologue data, and turns out I accidentally built the world's largest searchable monologue database : 8,600+ pieces. Backstage has like 1,100. Other platforms max out at 800. I have 4-8x more than anyone else.

The tech works great - pgvector, semantic search, all that. I use it constantly for my own auditions.

But here's the thing: I can't figure out how to get other actors to actually discover this.

I'm sitting here with literally the biggest monologue database that exists, something that actually solves a real problem, and I can't get it in front of the people who need it most.

Anyone else dealt with this? Having something genuinely valuable but struggling to reach your actual market? How do you spread the word when your users don't live online?

Launching Feb 18, mostly just hoping for some visibility and feedback at this point.

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