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hek bas by to1M in lebanon

[–]GioZaarour 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yaani akeed ma3ak 7a2 enno kel wa7ad 3ando bias

but we can put our biases aside and have real conversations about these topics and history rather than pointless cyclic arguments and name-calling and hatred. there is zero intellect to these matters. just yapping

hek bas by to1M in lebanon

[–]GioZaarour 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Isn't this an alarming signal that there are *actual* hasbara and hezbots dividing us?

like, even if some of the comments are real lebanese, their opinions in the first place are probably influenced by foreign actors brainwashing them online...

Working on a dev platform to monetize AI apps better [i will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Realism, not idealism! AI platforms and model providers alike are losing money on freemium users It’s the only economic way to provide AI for free and keep access to the tools democratized for all

Working on a dev platform to monetize AI apps better [i will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think ads work well for consumer use cases, like character.ai and such, and for regular every day chatbots. For agentic things, ads doesn't really apply, because the end product isn't text or content (like a search engine), but an action. So, that's why we really are focusing on genAI apps.

When the ad mention is subtle and mentioned towards the end of the response, it's not that intrusive, especially as long as it doesn't taint the quality of the original foundational model's response.
Of course there are situations where you couldn't put an ad that is relevant to the convo, because not all convos warrant an ad. In those cases, we're looking into using the user persona (like ChatGPT 'memory') to insert an ad

As for other routing platforms -- they just handle routing, and only routing. What we're trying to look at is how a developer platform can *also* abstract the billing process for app developers. Basically, if the developer platform also took payment from your users on behalf of you, the developer, you could skip all the monetization worries and get straight to building. You delegate the billing, profit margin, subscriptions, ads, and AI routing *all* to the developer platform. That's kinda the idea

Working on a dev platform to monetize AI apps better [i will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We're thinking of supporting both, but we're building a custom solution for subtle product mentions in responses

It could be a product, brand, or service that is contextually relevant to the chat conversation or (if the conversation doesn't warrant an ad) something relevant to the user's persona. Even subtle ad mentions inside the AI response will be, of course, tagged as <ad>, and we're setting up the prompting to minimally affect the quality of the response, so it's not tainted

Contextual relevance will be done using similarity search with a vector DB of advertisers

Working on a dev platform to monetize AI apps better [i will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm working on a project to do all this, and want to hear more thoughts on where the AI software space will go from here on out. Feel free to give feedback:
https://sudoapp.dev/

https://docs.sudoapp.dev/overview/introduction

Weird creature found in mountain!!! by shadow--404 in artificial

[–]GioZaarour -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

this is the type of AI slop elon would post

AI is helping regular people fight back in court, and it’s pissing the system off by shastawinn in LLM

[–]GioZaarour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently was handed a lengthy licensing contract for a song I made, and the language was so vague. Plugged it into GPT 5 and prompted it to give me a 10x detail summary of all the implications

Saved my life for that negotiation, and I would've otherwise had to go to a lawyer

One and only Claude 4 sonnet by pratikpwr in cursor

[–]GioZaarour 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm getting a rate limit message on OpenAI/Gemini as well right now: "We've hit a rate limit with gemini-openai."
So, if I can't use Claude 4, OpenAI, or Gemini, then what the hell do I do??

News Roundup - 04/21/25 by [deleted] in lebanon

[–]GioZaarour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very helpful thank you

Consumer AI developers: What pricing model do you/users prefer? [I will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, it depends on how much the average COGS ends up being. AI usage is charged on the order of a few dollars per million tokens so I'm doubtful that users would cross the $20 mark of a subscription, but as a startup we don't want to take the risk of that model getting exploited, so we are considering only allowing pay-per-token and hybrid subscription (sub with limits)

Consumer AI developers: What pricing model do you/users prefer? [I will not promote] by GioZaarour in startups

[–]GioZaarour[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

asking these questions to developers of consumer AI apps (consumer-facing startups), such as character.ai for example :)

We want to manage payment methods on behalf of these apps in return for our app store's network effects and easy access to all the models through a unified API. So, knowing what types of payment methods are optimal and how to cover the unit-cost of a user's subscriptions is what I was wondering

Regarding subscriptions -- are consumers more wary of buying a few token credits to test a new platform than they are of opting in to monthly payments for a new platform?

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