Steal my idea: An intercom like assistant with hundreds of AI and non-AI apps
1 points| throwawayJA1820 | 3 years ago
Today there's dozens of AI app platforms like Jasper AI, RunwayML etc. The challenge these guys face is companies like Notion, Canva building AI directly into their platform. Canva built an image generation app and Notion built an embedded writing AI.
So how do the new AI companies compete?
By exploiting the distribution of incumbents. Since every website wants to have these AI apps why not give them a little Javascript embed that gives them all these AI apps directly on their site.
Imagine a small intercom like popup that gives you access to hundreds of AI apps.
A marketplace of hundreds of AI apps embedded into your website. Imagine going to mailchimp.com and having a small hovering bot on each page. You click it open, choose the gpt-3 writer app and generate the email copy. Need to generate a cool cover picture for the email? Use the stable diffusion image generator. Want to remove invalid emails? Use the neverbound app to auto-clean your email list. Want to enrich your email list with names etc, use the Clearbit app to enrich your emails.
Essentially you start with a few API backeded AI apps but as your size grows you open up your platform to third party devs who build their apps into your platform.
All these apps are available using a tiny intercom like circle that pops open on whatever site you are on. Mailchimp, Evernote, Notion etc.
This idea has inherent network effects. The more users you have, the more apps want to sell on your platform. So there is an opportunity to build a monopoly like Windows, Play store, iOS app store etc.
If you already have an AI app platform you can get to the market within 7 days.
The most critical thing with this idea is to get your javascript embed on as many sites as possible. The network effect of more users -> more apps -> more users is extremely strong. And will be hard to override once someone has huge demand already. So start with something free. Maybe a free web image gen tool. Burn VC money here. It doesn't matter. Its really valuable to move fast.
Once you have your free assistant on multiple sites, you can add more paid apps by reaching out to app devs and build your marketplace. There is a real opportunity here to build a new operating system of apps like Windows, Play store, iOS app store etc.
Unfortunately I can't work on this due to some personal reasons, and a lot of BS I've had to deal with.
I do believe this is the biggest AI opportunities in the world right now.
Technical details:
My understanding is not super clear but ultimately you would build a one-time access token that your customer generates on their backend using an API and passes it to client side a javascript. Because somebody could copy the javascript client from someone else and run it on their website. However in the beginning you need a simple architecture to onboard as many websites as you can.
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