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Ask HN: App monetization strategies in the AI era?

1 pointsby zciworalmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;m building an tool that combines OCR and text categorization of an image. Each job accrues cost with compute time. The rest of the tool is negligible cost.<p>The outcome is not discrete, so I worry about charging a usage based fee. If the output is not perfect (9&#x2F;10 times), I wouldn&#x27;t ask a user to pay for that job. A subscription model is an option, but a user could easily outpace the monthly cost if processing many jobs in a month.<p>What are some useful monetization strategies you&#x27;ve seen for AI tools to overcome this challenge?

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husamiaalmost 2 years ago
I haven&#x27;t seen it but tokenization economics strategies might be an area to check out. I don&#x27;t have a good source to reference.
version_fivealmost 2 years ago
Why can&#x27;t it run locally? It may be easier than you think to do the inference on the phone.