hey everyone - justin here 
been working with a few indie founders who are building on top of open-source LLMs (many starting with models from OpenAI, mistral, etc.), and something we kept running into was the gap between early traction and sustainable monetization -especially when you’re trying to avoid going the traditional VC route right away.
a few of us have been experimenting with a lightweight launch path that pairs tokenized incentives (onchain) with open AI model development. the idea is to let small teams get access to infra + early capital without spinning up a whole startup too early.
curious if anyone else here is thinking about alternative paths for model monetization, collaborative development, or user-aligned funding mechanisms? especially in open agent ecosystems or fine-tuned vertical models.
happy to share what’s worked and what’s totally flopped for us if there’s interest. curious to learn from what others are trying too.
i sell movies, books, screenplays, GPT agents, prompts, data, heuestic data, WandB spreadsheets, jsonl batches,
made a model selector sometimes build those
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weight loss plans
stock data
data services.
all built with gpt models. id show alot but all my post just get removed anyway
so - oh, right, i also sell and package entire piplines now. and working on an AI os, im about 75% done with - not sure if ill selll it or not.
thinking ill just make it and play DnD with it. oh .. right…
i also sell embedding services, faiis management serves, vector services, metadata services, context injection services into AI both LLM and ai models , video generation
just finished a GPT powered book - video + thumbnail pipline start to finish
video game logic, as well as video game worlds entire packages , Chat bots, discord bots with full memory and GPT extensions..
lets see… ah.. data synthesis and im working on a debate system that allows ai to argue .
again, im down to show you and anyone else exactly how to do this lol
u can see the prompt in the screen. all made in GPT framework /shrug, Oh i also made a review editoral pipeline to refine the results of the previous and a orcestrator to manage it all, been selling those too
ah, working on a library of alexandria too - almost done with that, but running 10-20 agent chains is a push of button now
again.. i would literally show the exact code the step by step and all.. but.. these forums dont want real builders sooo HOPe that answers ur question also some of the SS says veo but that was intitial stages, ive figured out how to feed GPT models heustict and zero shot data that give it compilation data to generate better videos using GPT framework , i.e. sora because i havent been bored enough to care to play with the other systems
oh right, i put vector tracking on all of it too so the entire ecosystem learns from it and i live inject context allowing for live recall of facts and link it to the faiis managerment systems which are all asyc- been selling access to those services as they better any system attacthed to it.
AHHHH also i ive been puting these GPT piplines in the cloud to see if i can just like give people access to them
this for one for example simulates conginition, Totatlly doesnt work none of this works its clearly all fake. i took the time to seek internet points for that
OH RIGHT i also made a new memory system to train the pipelines
been selling access to that too - again, all uses GPT specifically 4o-mini
