I have an idea for an AI social network where everyone just talks to the bot and the bot kinda hooks people up in some way, lets you know who you should meet, tells you about things, just like a person might. So it wouldn’t be completely private, but also ideally the bot is kind of discreet and just tells you what you should know based on what you and other people said to it.
Anyways I can’t do all that but I have a simple demo that just puts conversations with other users into the system prompt as context. You can become different users by trying different usernames and see how the system prompt puts it all together.
For example you can send a message as username “mike” and say something like “I’m looking to meet a stranger in LA to get tacos” and then change your username to “bill” And be like “I want to make friends that like mexican food” and then hopefully the bot will mention mike.
As you can see I’m struggling to come up with good examples of what do with this so I built this demo to crowd source ideas! You can change the system prompt to make it any kind of bot, like a dating app or something.
I had an idea for a pay-per-minute youtube, where your time watched gets credited to the creator. I would rather just pay per use than worry about whether I'm using my subscriptions enough to be worth it.
Most people aren't like you FWIW; there's a lot of research that suggests consumers prefer higher fixed prices to lower variable prices. The trouble with PPV (even if it's much cheaper than something like YouTube Premium) is that now before I watch any video, I have to consider whether that particular video is worth watching. For lots of content on YouTube, that bar would be too high to clear. It's much more comfortable knowing I've already paid for the service and don't need to think twice.
> research that suggests consumers prefer higher fixed prices to lower variable prices.
I'm one of them. I value predictability pretty highly when it comes to expenses. The less mental energy I have to spend on money-related things, the happier I am.
Me too. I'd imagine anyone who values time more than money would prefer the fixed-cost option. (And I learned a long time back buying time is the best possible use of money!)
I had an idea for a video streaming platform where people would add money to their account and be deducted a penny per minute and then publishers would get bulk payouts.
Why would you need a subscription? You could just add money to your account when it runs low. And the publishers wouldn't get small transactions, they would get paid out by the platform.
Platforms are very difficult to manage, with both consumers (with fake credit cards, reversals, etc) and producers (faking views to farm payments) possibly trying to scam you. There is a reason that none of them have really taken off despite years of trying.
I'd like to throw in my pay-per-minute concept for video content. It's been tried before but I think it's the business model for media monetization that will win in the end. Basically a platform like Youtube could charge users a penny per minute and distribute to content creators after taking a platform percentage fee.
Starting something like this would have a huge chicken and egg problem though because no content creators would join a platform without a large existing user base. And I think Youtube and others would have trouble trying out a new business model because they might lose the confidence of their ad customers.
This really isn't a bad idea. Of course they'd have to have a wallet you deposit into, and disable ads completely for anyone using it for there to be buy-in, but I like the idea of paying the people I watch directly.
1c a minute seems like exactly what I'd be willing to pay, as well. Just for an example, a relatively small livestream I watched last week would have made $1200; there's no way they're making that much on ads. If that's the case, channels would market it as an upgrade too - "join our supporter's club, and get a badge".
This looks like a great alternative to Wistia for online course sites/platforms like Teachable. I believe many developer built and focused subscription video sites like gorails.com for example use Wistia because it makes video easier, just like mux, even if they have no use for the marketing focused gui tools.
Wistia is much better than other OVPs for startup projects but they charge 100/month if you want more than 3 videos which meant paying for while my project was still in development. Amazon like pricing would have been a major relief.
The pricing is far better as well. For HD video at 3GB per hour thats .026/GB compared to .085/GB for low volume on cloudfront, although hard to compare without knowing how much streaming will be full HD for a given video service.
I'd say that almost everything besides #1 has been well addressed by new companies or the big 5 since 2008. But the RIAA is a symptom that went away - the problem is still there, and streaming is only part of the answer. Spotify may seem like a solid solution to end users, but artists can't earn much from their content alone, and that means less people can work on creative projects.
I’m developing this microtransaction alternative to ads for video streaming. Users prepay for minutes (1 cent each) which transfer to content owners as they watch. Eager for feedback!
There are some test accounts and test videos, and feel free to upload your own test videos.
Anyways I can’t do all that but I have a simple demo that just puts conversations with other users into the system prompt as context. You can become different users by trying different usernames and see how the system prompt puts it all together.
For example you can send a message as username “mike” and say something like “I’m looking to meet a stranger in LA to get tacos” and then change your username to “bill” And be like “I want to make friends that like mexican food” and then hopefully the bot will mention mike.
As you can see I’m struggling to come up with good examples of what do with this so I built this demo to crowd source ideas! You can change the system prompt to make it any kind of bot, like a dating app or something.