I’d pay $10/mo for an app if it all it did was subscribe to things, notice I didn’t use it, and stop the renewal. Then, if I wanted to use it again, it would resubscribe with a tap of a button. All mobile. It should show how much money it saved me by avoiding auto renewals.
Version 2 would auto downgrade/upgrade you to a certain tier assuming there’s no degradation of experience due to lack of features. For example, after COVID-19, my phone plan tier was too high because I was always connected to WiFi. I now pay $30 less a month.
Version 3 would notice when there’s a more optimal plan and prompt you to change plans. For example, Spotify came out with a new Duo plan so I switched from a family plan and saved $2/mo. No difference in service since only two of us used it.
1 million users * $10/mo * 12 = $120M ARR. It would be ridiculously high margin because it’s pure software. Lots of clever ways to do marketing. Near zero downside for users with the right pricing structure. Raise one round. Keep the team small. Stay profitable.
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1/ I am excited to announce the new Playground: Design graphics like a Pro. You can make T-shirts, Logos, Social Media Posts, and even invent new kinds of memes.
Powered by our next image foundation model Playground v3 (beta).
Go to playground.\com. No wait list.
2/ You can make amazing designs using Playground with graphical text generation to express yourself:
3/ Use Playground to make edits to images by just asking. We made a template library so you always start with a great image.
Talk to it like a graphics designer to make changes:
I am an old man now after two platform waves but what Apple did today was communicate:
"Hi guys, we made native integration points to make all you all AI model makers compete for our 1B-user scale. Of course, we'll show YOU some ideas first. Game on."
It is literally the best thing that could happen.
If you are behind on AI, you make everyone make the best experiences (if AI matters) to compete with each other and build the normal platform advantages you already have.
AI AppStore is providing 100s of integration points to use "AI" right when you need to.
Like browsers, you will be able to set your "default" model whether that's ChatGPT, Gemini, or a future image model like Playground :)
If I was a young or a college student in need of a little income per month, now is a brief window of opportunity where you can make really easy apps dedicated to solving one problem using ChatGPT in a single step where many back and forth chats are required. Make the UI visual.
Sometimes a few thousand dollars per month can empower you to think more ambitiously and the product building itself will teach you a lot about how to make things people want.
Oops typo. I thought Twitter had an edit button but I can't find it :(
2/ Playground now features a powerful collaborative Canvas editor to layer multiple edits on top of each other.
This goes beyond text-to-image giving you more control to make fine grained changes.
3/ Combine multiple elements to make an amazing image with more fine-grained control:
- Cut out a bear
- Add a bear into a forest background
- Get its edge + depth masks
- Add a balloon
- Draw a basic arm holding the balloon
If you're strong at Python, TypeScript, and have been learning a lot of ML fundamentals but still ramping up, you may consider joining us to do Applied AI where you help prototype products at the intersection.
A great way to ship real things and be forced to learn ML basics.
1/ Introducing Playground v1: A new image model that dramatically improves the overall HDR quality to get more stunning images. This is just the beginning and work on v2 has started.
You can try it for free at playgroundai.com - here are some examples:
2/ A few more images from our team internally around prompt alignment and dynamic range: