# Build inside the platform instead of pulling its readers away

- Category: product
- Author: Andrei Statescu (https://indie.md/people/andrei-statescu/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/andrei-naramine/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/read-on-the-page-not-off-it/

The existing text-to-speech tools all make the same move: extract the story from the platform and play it in their own app. That works until you notice whose lunch it eats, because web novel platforms live on ads, comments, and community, and a tool that siphons readers off the page is a traffic devourer they have every incentive to fight, in court if necessary. Naramine is an extension precisely so it can stay on the page: it reads the chapter where it is published, follows the pagination, and leaves every pageview, comment, and vote where the platform can count it. That shape is what lets Andrei position it as an accessibility layer platforms could tolerate or even endorse, rather than a parasite they must kill. When your product feeds on someone else's content, the architecture is also the legal strategy: pick the shape that adds to the host's metrics instead of draining them, and you convert a future plaintiff into a future partner.