"Comic reader and AI creator with audio effects."
TL;DR: The Netflix for Audio-Visual Comics, with a wide range of premium, entertaining content for comic readers.You can hear the characters speak in 6 languages, with immersive soundtracks and crispy audio effects.
Artists can earn a living by creating, uploading, publishing, and monetizing comics. With a wide range of characters, voices, and soundtracks to choose from. Artists can also generate audio effects and soundtracks at will, using Merse AI. The AI tooling handles text and voice translation of speech bubbles.
GET THE APP @ merse.co
Founded by Kumar Abhirup & Mark Rachapoom
⚠️ The Problem
Creating comics is a labor-intensive process that requires significant time and effort.
Despite the popularity of comics, producing them often takes hours of meticulous work using tools like Adobe Illustrator or requires drawing by hand. This limits the number of creators who can participate and the volume of content available to readers.
The comic reading experience has been the same for decades. On the other hand, readers are looking for new and more immersive experiences. While static images are the norm, there is a growing demand for interactive content that brings characters and stories to life with character voices and sounds.
🫶 Merse's Solution — Audio-Visual Comics
The Merse platform enables creators to generate high-quality audio comics quickly and easily, and offers readers an immersive experience. You can focus on crafting engaging stories and Merse will handle all your tech, distribution, and monetization.
📸 Features
• Generate comics using AI: GenAI that creates detailed comic panels from your scripts, compelling voices in multiple languages for each speech bubble, and AI-generated sound effects, significantly reducing the time from concept to publication.
• Audio Effects + Soundtracks: Be it the sound of gulping water, or cracking knuckles, it has it all.
• Read and Hear in 6 different languages: 🇮🇳Hindi 🇫🇷French 🇨🇳Chinese 🇯🇵Japanese 🇰🇷Korean 🇺🇸English
• Monetization options: Choose how to monetize your content – keep it free, or charge users per episode.
🏪 The Market
The biggest incumbent in this industry is Naver Webtoons. It’s the YouTube for static, hand-drawn comics. Over 120,000 artists draw and upload their episodes and get paid over $27M for their work, clocking in a revenue of over $1.4B a year and 170M monthly active readers.
