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Hey guys, I'm not going to include the link in the thread itself (rather in a comment) because Reddit deboosts anything that takes traffic off of Reddit.

I'm building "battlelines dot ai" (which I'll link in a comment) that documents famous pros and antis. I want to cover *everyone* notable that has an opinion one way or another and make it searchable. It should have quotes documenting their stance and should be easy to navigate and quantify the various factions.

Would anyone be interested in helping on this? At minimum, could I get some feedback on it?

I manually curated it until I found out Claude Code Fable could just build the database and I could fact check and verify the results. Working at a much faster scale now.

I can probably put the whole project on github later.

It's really easy to make videos like this in ArtCraft!

And unlike all the other providers, ArtCraft is 100% open source. You're investing in the only platform you own.

Try it out!

Marketing is 9/10ths of the problem. That involves talking to users and understanding them.

You can spend all of your time building, but unless you put effort into reaching an audience, none of it matters.

You need to talk to customers. You need to get on Reddit subs, Instagram, Twitter/X, the Discords - down in the trenches, wherever your customers are. Talk to them, listen to them, interview them. Don't ask them if they think your app is cool, ask them what they need.

Case in point: I kept listening to how people wanted unrestricted Seedance 2.0. How the big providers were blocking their prompts. They'd get blocked on action scene gun violence, or even prompts with King Kong-like creatures. So I built relationships with ByteDance and Chinese researchers and providers to give unfiltered access and enable us to turn all the filters off.

The controllable demos I built are neat, and they help out in 5-10% of edge cases, but just giving people high-volume, low-cost, completely unfiltered video was the primary thing people wanted. Once I listened and marketed that to users, the growth went parabolic.

I'm building it in the open as an open source website and desktop app. Our users like that a lot too, but it's not as easy a message as "unfiltered Seedance", "your prompts for sword fights and bikini beaches won't get blocked".

I built a lot of tools last year, and they all went nowhere. I launched something in January (well, actually late February) that actually did what customers wanted. Then everything started working.

Show your app off shamelessly everywhere and to everyone. But before you do that, talk to them.

I'm part of the team working on the Open Source ArtCraft controllable film engine (link to Github in comments).

It's an image and video model aggregator like Higgs or Magnific, but comes with a Desktop app written in Rust. It has a lot of additional features that allow you to structurally pose and design your shots in 3D or 2D.

But perhaps most importantly, the desktop version of ArtCraft lets you bring your own API keys and subscriptions. You can add FAL keys, login with ChatGPT, use any of your subscriptions.

We're doing research on video-to-video ControlNets to let you precisely control the camera and movement, and we'll have that available in the app soon.

We're building an in-app router to generate each model at the cheapest available source. It's still a work in progress, but if you're a developer or just want to watch our progress, we'd love to have you join.

All of this is available on Github to download!