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Daniel Nguyen
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@daniel_nguyenx
Paid. But don't expect to have revenue immediately.
I would start with paid because it filters out noises (users who are not my target customers).
What you don't want is to spend time building features for them and in the end, can't find more people who would pay.
I've tested freemium, free trial and paid only for BoltAI. Freemium doesn't work, it literally 10x my troubles (from free users). Free trial kinda works but the conversion rate is way lower than paid only.
Hi Daniel, thanks for answering. Do you have the same opinion on projects that are unlikely to reach high levels of revenue anyway?
My current project is a Telegram bot to auto publish on Reddit using AI + Voice notes from Telegram. I'm modest in thinking that there won't be a huge audience for this kind of thing if it's paid. Of course, if it's free it will reach more people and be used more so I was thinking maybe the conversion rate ends up being roughly the same.
Do you have the same opinion on projects that are unlikely to reach high levels of revenue anyway?
Yes but that's a bit pessimistic 😅. Any project may or may not reach a high level of revenue IMO.
Here is my thought process:
- I need to form a hypothesis on how much effort needed to generate certain amount of revenue
- Then I work backwards and validate the hypothesis
- To do that, I would start with paid only because if I cannot convince even a few people to pay, I won't be able to convince 100, 1000 more. And in the end, all my efforts are wasted. I'd rather work on a different thing
From my experience, if you can convince 1 person out of 100 users who tried your product, it's likely a good product to pursue.
If you show it to 1000 people but none would pay then it's not a good problem to solve.
You can test both strategies. Make it paid only, but allow a small number of visitors to try it for free in exchange for feedback. This would filter the non-serious users who are not really having the problem you're trying to solve.
I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.
I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.
Did you use Ollama or how are you using it?
yes I used Ollama llama3 8b. Feel the speed is slow compared to using it directly from terminal
I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.
I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.
Yogesh, you can follow this guide to use a custom AI service or a different model. You can also bulk edit
Hey @yogesh, Daniel from BoltAI here.
I can’t answer your question since there are dozens of AI clients now that I lost track of the competition.
But here are a few things I strongly believe in BoltAI:
It supports more AI services & models than just OpenAI. My customers usually alternate between GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus for coding for example. Or to use Groq with their insanely fast inference. Or using a local model with Ollama. It’s easy to switch in BoltAI.
It supports “context-aware” AI Command. You highlight the content, press a keyboard shortcut then ask AI about it. You can build your own AI tools with this: text summarization, content rewrite, translation…
Quickly take a screenshot and ask AI about it. Currently it supports both GPT 4 and Claude 3. BoltAI will support local model in the next version (llava)
A more powerful plugin system. This is still in progress but imagine AI can help you with your local tasks such as renaming, photo/video manipulation etc. It would be super powerful.
It’s one-time payment, not a subscription.
Happy to answer any questions 😊
BTW here is the list of all features with demo: docs.boltai.com/docs/features
Hey Daniel, just purchased the product. Is there a way to change all the assistants model to gpt4o? I see it's gpt3.5 turbo rn.
Yogesh, you can follow this guide to use a custom AI service or a different model. You can also bulk edit
btw the llama3 req timeout most of the time and is too slow. It worked once or twice only. When I run it in the terminal it works pretty fast and always does.
It worked again when I checked stream response. I had unchecked it and it stopped working. But It is still slow compared to terminal.
Did you use Ollama or how are you using it?
yes I used Ollama llama3 8b. Feel the speed is slow compared to using it directly from terminal
I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.
I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.
I highly recommend read this book: www.amazon.com/Traction-Start…
Here is a good summary: readingraphics.com/book-summa…
Hmmmm good point actually. But I was thinking of providing collaboration features that won’t be available in an individual license.
My ideal org size is between 5-30 people (1-6 teams)
Ah good idea. I did receive a couple of inquiries about this but it was for PDF Pals, not BoltAI. Maybe I can merge the 2 products and offer this for businesses.
Yes but that's a bit pessimistic 😅. Any project may or may not reach a high level of revenue IMO.
Here is my thought process:
From my experience, if you can convince 1 person out of 100 users who tried your product, it's likely a good product to pursue.
If you show it to 1000 people but none would pay then it's not a good problem to solve.
You can test both strategies. Make it paid only, but allow a small number of visitors to try it for free in exchange for feedback. This would filter the non-serious users who are not really having the problem you're trying to solve.