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How much are you all willing to bid? I'll do it for $10. That's cheaper than any AI on the market.
by anoncoward111 8y ago
How much are you all willing to bid? I'll do it for $10. That's cheaper than any AI on the market.
- wuunderbar 8y agoI'll chip in $1 for this.
- anoncoward111 8y agoI'll give you a freebie: They originally built a clunky Netscape-based website builder because they wanted to see if they could bypass Windows entirely and use Netscape to allow users to send commands over HTTP to a server.
- whitepoplar 8y agoStartup idea: "Summarize it for me" - Upload any document/video/url and pay $x for the cliffsnotes.
- whitepoplar 8y agoFor popular, public content, you could split the price amongst many buyers, like Kickstarter.
- braindead_in 8y agoHere's an automated transcript to start off with. https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac7380329fe2ef7 https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac73...
- tim333 8y agoI had a look but the YouTube transcript is more accurate. Compare: "Why combinator has the people who wrote a mail and email?" from that and "Y Combinator has the people who wrote Yahoo Mail and Gmail" from the YouTube transcript for example.
- braindead_in 8y agoYeah, our language model needs some work. We're constantly improving our engine though. Since we are manual transcription service, we can feed back the hand-made changes by humans back into our model and re-train it. Thanks for checking it out!
- tim333 8y agoNo worries. You do punctuation better than youtube. I was wondering if you could do a hack which kind of combined the two results. Youtube must be doing something kind of sophisticated to get things like "Paul Buchheit" correct like doing a pre search of people connected with Paul Graham.
- braindead_in 8y agoYeah. We can actually do that. We do have a prototype of that in the works.
- yesenadam 8y agoI wish I could do this with subtitles! I hate waiting years for subtitles to TV series and obscure movies to become available. Ones in European languages mostly e.g. Cordon season 2 has been out for years, no English subs available. Latest season of Rita, out for a year, no English subs. The Colombian Ugly Betty, impossible to find many years later. I waited a couple of years for the latest season of Engrenages etc. Maybe there could be a fixed priced online, which you could contribute towards. I won't pay for movies/tv now, but I'd sure pay for subtitles! Divided between many people, it wouldn't cost much. Not sure how to ensure high quality subs. (I contributed to doing subs on viki years ago, which seemed like a good thing, but it disappeared, taking all the subtitles with it.)
- dewey 8y agoThat already exists in a more private form, on sites specialized in smaller movies there’s usually a “subtitle pot” where people can donate their points / upload credit and the person who does the subtitles then receives that bounty once work is done. Usually they leak out to the rest of the internet pretty quickly after that.
- yesenadam 8y agoOh, I had't heard of that. I haven't consulted my friend Google yet, but could you name some of those sites? Thanks.
- dewey 8y agoThat's one of them: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarg...
- yesenadam 8y agoThanks! Hmm does sound a bit inaccessible though, and for obscure classics, not really what I had in mind: "Karagarga is a members-only torrent tracker. That is to say it is a file-sharing archive closed to the public and accessible by exclusive invitation alone. These coveted invitations are given out to only the highest ranked users(VIP and Uploaders)."
- anoncoward111 8y agoDoesn't even require a website anymore. A Discord channel and a Google Spreadsheet and a variety of payment methods can get this all done
- yazr 8y agoI dont get it How do you accept payment without a website / app / etc ?
- anoncoward111 8y agoYou send me money personally because you trust me
- ma2rten 8y agoMaybe it could be like YouTube where the creators get part of the ad revenue?
- jacquesm 8y agoThat's copyright infringement, you'd be creating derived works.
- yesenadam 8y agoThere are many jobs like that on freelance sites e.g. Upwork
- avip 8y agoYou're 5 years late - fiverr and MTurk ate your lunch.
- JesseAldridge 8y agoSure I'll pay $10. So like Paypal or what?
- mi_lk 8y agoCryptocurrency, obvs.
- JesseAldridge 8y agoI actually once offered some guy in India $100 to summarize a list of articles of for me. Sending the money internationally was by far the biggest pain point. So yeah, cryptocurrency could be the key ingredient that makes this idea work.
- csomar 8y agoSending money internationally is very easy. Sending money to countries with capital controls is a hustle.
- sokoloff 8y agoIt’s easy, but leaky in terms of fees and delays as compared to US-to-US transfers. When I send money to EU hobbyists, it’s often 3 days and ~10% eaten up by fees.
- csomar 8y agoThere are gateways like PayPal (which is why it skyrocketed in the first place). So you send $100 PayPal and he gets $100. He then goes and spend his full money to buy something online without any other fees.
- sokoloff 8y agoThe problem is most people have a bank account in their local currency, so PayPal is in their local currency and takes several bites at the apple before passing the core to the recipient. People doing an hour of work online for a few bucks are likely interested in buying something locally rather than spending $100US on something online.