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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.

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Startup idea: "Summarize it for me" - Upload any document/video/url and pay $x for the cliffsnotes.

For popular, public content, you could split the price amongst many buyers, like Kickstarter.

Here's an automated transcript to start off with.

https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac73...

I 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.

Yeah, 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!

No 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.

Yeah. We can actually do that. We do have a prototype of that in the works.

I 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.)

That 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.

Oh, I had't heard of that. I haven't consulted my friend Google yet, but could you name some of those sites? Thanks.

That's one of them: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarg...

Thanks! 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)."

Subtitles are derivatives of copyrighted content, so publishing them without a license might get you sued, especially if you're charging for it.

Doesn't even require a website anymore. A Discord channel and a Google Spreadsheet and a variety of payment methods can get this all done

I dont get it

How do you accept payment without a website / app / etc ?

You send me money personally because you trust me

Maybe it could be like YouTube where the creators get part of the ad revenue?

That's copyright infringement, you'd be creating derived works.

There are many jobs like that on freelance sites e.g. Upwork

You're 5 years late - fiverr and MTurk ate your lunch.

Sure I'll pay $10. So like Paypal or what?

Cryptocurrency, obvs.

I 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.

Sending money internationally is very easy. Sending money to countries with capital controls is a hustle.

It’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.

There 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.

The 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.

Transferwise is pretty good. Costs are like 1%, goes direct to their bank account, including India, Indonesia etc. It's more like a bank wire with no charegebacks than Paypal, for better or worse.

PayPal now takes $3-5 minimum on international transfers. Switched to payoneer

Sorry I fell asleep :) In the future, if I was serious about accepting an anonymous person's money for this service, I would have made an email address solely used for this purpose that is linked to paypal or venmo or whatever :)

Thanks for the offer. I have free time today so if you are dying for this synopsis I will do it for free just because I find it so funny that someone wants this

I am not dying for a synopsis.

But I would still like one.

Mostly because I've been trying to stick all of my knowledge into draw.io diagrams. And the first step of doing that is getting a textual version of the information.

Don't just throw that random fact like it's nothing. It deserves it's own Show HN

Hehe, too much work.

I'll chip in $1 for this.

I'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.

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