@Kidlogic: No offense taken. I agree it does look a bit random, but we are working on the hypothesis that we will never need a website for this. A detailed explanation is something I missed, apologies for that.
Well broadly the purpose of Aaahit is to be your smartest phonebook contact who you can ask anything. This includes eventually having a discussion on grey area topics to finding information quickly. Right now it helps in translations, wiki'ing stuff, getting the latest cricket scores or checking your train reservation status ( for India only ).
Right now it works on top of Whatsapp, but we are adding other messengers shortly. Capabilities right now are translating, checking wikipedia, latest cricket scores, check indian railways pnr status and some fun stuff like jokes. We are essentially working towards the conversation + answering grey area questions category.
I don't think that should be a problem? In any case we will allow the publisher to use any other micro transaction system that they are "comfortable" with :).
We do agree, but its been tough trying to get the broad investor community to see value/ability without building fences around your core tech. Some even see this as validation. We don't.
Not too sure how others feel about this, this specific advice has come from fellow entrepreneurs who have managed to figure things out (i.e. raising, team, etc).
So, another way of looking at it is the app store/app upgrades way. You pay using smaller increments, but have a view of the goods that you are buying. So instead of a future commitment, its more about paying for what you want now.
If its seamless, then micro transactions work. It also implies you are distracted enough not to do a future projection of the longer term aggregate costs incurred :).
Thanks! You have summed up how we were thinking about it. It does attempt to utilize micropayments in a novel way, so the kind of actions that you are talking about like waiting on the page, maybe even scrolling are very much valid reasons for people to pay.
Can we mail you, would appreciate more thoughts around the same?
We were thinking about independent blogs, our thinking is very much on the unbundling lines.
We are trying to build this around summarization tech (text, audio, images, video, etc), you see some quality of the good before you buy it. Sort of window shopping for content, like it then you read more.
Thanks! We just got started, and I totally get your point. Right now we are trying to figure if there is a commercial aspect to this. Our plan is to open source the code eventually.
Note: We use AES for encoding our keys into redis, where we use redis timeouts to clear out the data. Minimal postfix logging to ensure that we don't keep track of emails.
Yup there are a few of them out there. We were not sure about their security and if they delete the conversations.So we created something which we feel is more secure.
Well broadly the purpose of Aaahit is to be your smartest phonebook contact who you can ask anything. This includes eventually having a discussion on grey area topics to finding information quickly. Right now it helps in translations, wiki'ing stuff, getting the latest cricket scores or checking your train reservation status ( for India only ).