ElevenLabs

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Bar, Montenegro (UTC+2) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, API integrations, LLM-backed workflows Résumé/CV: https://neurocraft.space Email: skotty119 [at] gmail.com I build and repair small business systems and automations. Recent work includes HubSpot support-ticket classification and data enrichment, candidate onboarding and shift-coverage automation with FastAPI, Twilio and ElevenLabs, and PDF-to-Excel transaction extraction with balance reconciliation. Available for short fixed-scope freelance work or contract work. For a first project, I am happy to agree on a small deliverable and acceptance checks, then take payment after acceptance.

ElevenLabs Aims to Be IPO-Ready in 2-3 Years

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

There are lots of "not clearly legal" things that turn into big business. - YouTube had dubious legality when it started and definitely benefited from lax copyright enforcement initially - PayPal didn't have all the licenses it needed to transfer money between states - Spotify used pirated music when it started - Uber and Lyft broke rules around taxis - Square captured magstripe data over an analog port, in violation of every credit card rule (Jack Dorsey's "break the rules" mantra). He tells each of his employees this story when he onboards them. - Companies scraping data to train models - ElevenLabs growing big off of deepfake celebrity audio ... A lot of new markets start out by totally and completely breaking the norms.

MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed

How I feel about AI

> Like a locust plague, they descend on any open wiki and forum and overwhelm them. That’s the core pattern of unsupervised agents, the locust plague metaphor is apt. We do and will see that in every single system AI can interact with, be it human systems, software systems, etc. Relentlessly search for an entry point, flood in, consume the whole thing from the inside until there is no value for humans left. You built a new, innovative software company? Thousands of agents will be working replicating the whole thing in no time. You publish your writing? Exact same thing, as soon as you get some traction your work is replicated in no time by thousands of agents. Same for videos (the whole “faceless YouTube channels” pushed by ElevenLabs and similar). Same for online courses. Same for any…