Instagram Live has seen
@torylanez
pull in 200k concurrent viewers and
@jamesblake
pull 30k, but it offers no tools for monetisation.
In a post-pandemic world without touring, many of our favourite artists need to find new revenue sources.
Some ideas on how IG Live could help👇
PATENT DROP 📥
Summaries of the newest patents from big tech companies.
Get a peek into what new features or new products they're thinking about before they're released.
The idea that one individual can have many incarnations, many avatars, each with different personality traits, is deeply embedded in Hinduism.
The next wave of the internet will see us questioning the idea of 1 individual = 1 identity.
We’ll expand who we are, not narrow it.
Introducing Popstarz - an app that turns bad singers into popstars using AI.
With a selfie and a voice sample, we help you imagine what your popstar life could’ve been.
Here’s Sam Altman (
@sama
) if he pursued singing instead of AGI:
In the last 7 days, I've had 52 conversations with strangers I've met on Twitter.
Now I have 52 new friends!
I'm so unbelievably inspired - to think, to write and to build.
Thank you, world!
Wondering how it'd feel to have a thought, type it out, choose the identity you want to attach it to (or create one), and then hit send.
One individual, many identities, each with their own reputation, interests and audience.
Airbnb's new patent application last week:
- Hosts will be able to scan their entire accommodation to create a 3D map of the listing
- As they do this, a list of all the amenities will be collected using object detection
- Want to build more trust in the marketplace
I'm going to start sending myself an automated weekly newsletter of new patents from big tech companies.
I'm curious about getting a peek into what these companies are thinking about in terms of new features or new products, before they're released.
Anyone else interested?
I'd love to have an idea pod of 5-10 people who are constantly generating product ideas (good and bad) and figuring out ways to test them quickly and cheaply.
🎶🤖🎙️ We’ve been playing around with auto-generating AI Drake songs based on a text prompt.
Reply to this tweet with a text prompt and I'll reply with your song in < 5 mins.
The Hustle told its 1m+ readers about PatentDrop today and now my inbox is blowing up 📥🔥
Get a weekly summary of 3 new interesting patent applications ->
An idea I’ve been thinking about for Clubhouse - real time audio + visual feedback from the audience:
- Gives the audience power
- Signals to a moderator whether they should intervene
- Helps speakers gauge temperature of the room
- Creates audio atmosphere
Listen + watch 👇
Some big news today - Patent Drop is getting acquired!
@patentdrop
is joining The Daily Upside (
@TheDailyUpside
), a newsletter-first media company whose core product goes out to 900k readers daily.
How would zoom conversations change if you could see speaking time by participant?
- admins interjecting to maintain conversational balance?
- pressure to be concise if you're talking more than others
- data for conversation post-mortems: what's the ROI for each speaker?
9 year anniversary since my dad died from cancer.
Here’s a video of him (lhs) singing with his friend soon after his first chemo.
At the end of the video, he looks at me and smiles, and I wish I could be there again.
twitter & music nfts:
- if someone owns a music nft, it auto plays when you land on their profile
- like old myspace profiles except only with songs that you own
- music nfts suddenly have utility, status & signal taste
random advice:
if you find someone you deeply love, marry early
as someone who was deeply sceptical of the purpose for marriage, there’s definitely a shift to “we’re building a life together and we’re a team”
I put it off because I felt like I had to be in a stable position
I'm starting a newsletter!
Most startup commentary is market-down. I want to look at companies from the product-up.
Every week, I'll take one early-stage company and breakdown its product through the lens of people, emotions & community.
Subscribe 👇
I'm getting into the habit of taking one long shot per day related to what I'm working on.
- 2 days ago: I cold emailed Tobi from Shopify
- Yesterday: I cold-emailed the head of the Biden Digital campaign
Neither replied, but worth a shot 😏
I think it’d be cool to have a DAO where we buy up expensive London mansions, put it up for rent and distribute the rent payments to token owners. Democratise being a landlord.
In the UK, while growing up, I was an ethnic minority in a poor, deprived area.
Then in university and work, I worked my way to be seen as 'Elite' and Privileged'.
Now I’m in India, I’m a Hindu Brahmin Male, NRI.
Identity is confusing.
After I stepped back from HaikuJAM, I spent 6 months doing things for free - taking calls with anyone who wanted to speak to me, helping people out on problems they were thinking about, tweeting out ideas, working on random products.
Suddenly everything is changing, randomly.
Something unconventional I've done over the last year is just reach out to people doing interesting things with long, instinctive gut thoughts related to something they've been writing or thinking about.
I think cold messaging with a long, thoughtful message is underrated.
My last evening in Mumbai. I'll go for a walk around Pali Hill. Stop by Carter Road. Sit by the sea for an hour, listening to the chatter around me. Maybe it will rain - I probably would have forgotten my umbrella anyway.
Patent Drop hit 3k subscribers today, 2 months after launch.
Shoutout to
@TheHustle
for featuring the newsletter again today and helping me smash the milestone!
my goal is to make it possible for an unpopular 13 year old to make a song on their phone, without ever interfacing with a complicated studio interface and for that song to become a huge hit.
barbarians at the gates.
My first startup got acquired and the main product is shutting down, but here’s how people are reacting to the news.
No greater feeling that building something that people love.
We’ll all keep building new worlds - more magical, more loving.
I've been thinking a lot about finding high-leverage activities where the input : output ratio is outsized.
Patent Drop is one of those things: ~ 3 hours every week, $20k annualised rev, and expanded my network in ways I didn't expect.
Want to find more of these in 2021.
📥 NEW PATENT DROP:
- Snap is bringing events into its app (s/o
@wongmjane
)
- Microsoft is looking to assign employees a score based on how well they collaborate with others
- Visa is building a global predictions platform
Patent Drop hit 3k subscribers today, 2 months after launch.
Shoutout to
@TheHustle
for featuring the newsletter again today and helping me smash the milestone!
I take mental note of the companies that rejected me for a job but are subscribing to my newsletters, following my thoughts on twitter, and whose employees ask to pick my brain.
I'm petty like that.
I think there's an interesting future in decentralised workplaces that isn't work-from-home.
Local workspaces in every neighbourhood where people can come together and work.
How can anyone who has a living room, owns a garage, or own any sort of property, become a WeWork?
Some personal life news: today is my last day at
@HaikuJAM
.
After 5 years of building this wonderful product, I'm taking some time to learn more about myself, the world and my place in it.
what we've been building at mayk:
- gen-z easily making songs on their phone
- one-tap minting it as a music NFT on OpenSea
- one-tap uploading to Spotify & Apple Music
- automatic splits to producers & collaborators
#3
. Flow
These conversations are the most fun and interesting.
Every word that you say is a potential node of inspiration for the other person to explore.
The more you give of yourself, the more pathways there are to explore.
Some cool updates:
- PATENT DROP has as many subscribers in 2 days than my product newsletter received in 8 months
- a product I've been building in the influencer monetisation space is being tested live tomorrow with a creator who has 4m TikTok followers
I'd love to see Indian entrepreneurs obsessing about building for the world.
Nothing wrong with building just for India, but soft-power is created when you transcend borders.
I see no reason why there can't be an Indian consumer product built in India, by Indians, for the world
When I was 15, I started rapping in front of a webcam anonymously and uploading it onto MySpace. Eventually, I got connected to a producer at Warner Bros, and he encouraged me to start recording. My songs were featured on the biggest blogs & even a DeLaSoul mixtape.
What a trip.
in the last 3 weeks:
- we built an ai music covers account
- got 50m+ views on tiktok
- got a cover reposted by Calvin Harris
- Charlie Puth commented on a cover
- a ton of media attention
- banned by TikTok lol
Things are about to get wild in the music space.
@fbnewsroom
@azeem
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