The idea:
A platform where:
- Businesses can find specialized AI models (not general ChatGPT-style APIs)
- Developers can train and sell AI models optimized for specific business use cases
- Models are designed for edge deployment (low cost, offline, fast inference)
- Everything is focused on reducing AI API costs and improving performance for real business workflows
Think:
Instead of paying high API costs for generic AI businesses use smaller, optimized models tailored to their exact use case. (OCR, surveillance, retail analytics, automation, etc.)
And developers earn money by:
- Selling trained models
- Offering optimized deployments
- Customizing models for businesses
The problem I’m trying to solve:
A lot of companies are:
burning money on AI API calls
struggling with latency and scaling costs
unable to deploy AI models locally or efficiently
relying on generic models that are not optimized for their workflows
My question to you:
Would businesses actually use something like this instead of just using OpenAI / APIs?
If you are a developer, would you bother uploading/selling models like this?
What would stop you from trusting or using a platform like this?
Is this solving a real problem or does it sound unnecessary?
Most importantly, would you personally sign up for something like this?
I would much appreciate if I can get some honest feedback from you all!
I’m not looking for validation, I want to know if this is actually needed in the market or just sounds good but won’t get real adoption.
Appreciate any insights, especially from people who’ve built or used AI products in production.
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