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For more than a year I've managed #NounsAI & $500k+
I'm proud to say we are open sourcing both:
Roko: A GPT-backed community management tool
&
NounsAI: An AI hub for content creation, pictures, videos, audio oh my!
Some announcements + reflections working for Nouns but first a video showcasing the work!
https://youtu.be/v0UUTWSJ4eQ
Thanks to @JackWyldes, @ByHardy, @toady_hawk, & @thenounsquare
for making it + hosting our bi/weekly meetings throughout this journey
Roko?
Roko is:
• A Discord Bot that records all messages & notes any question. If previously answered, Roko makes a thread & shares. Otherwise notes
• One of the first GPT powered Knowledge Graph creators; turning proposals into a brain
• A tool to take conversations from discord & the context from those proposals to automatically create an auto-updating wiki that can store decisions, updates, questions, & more for any proposal automatically
This was an ambitious goal and I’m so proud of what we built, I think it’s a GREAT tool with a lot of potential that’s groundbreaking in many ways BUT I failed to spend enough time talking to our customers, nouners.
If I had, I would have realized that it was more important to build a tool that spread that info all over the place instead of storing it in one. This was one of my biggest mistakes. That’s one thing I think many misunderstand about
@nounsdao, not only do you need to be building something cool; you need to already have the audience to make sure enough people care that others buy in. You can find the code here: https://github.com/nounsai/data-pipeline A big shoutout to @stevefink who did a lot of the heavy lifting here.
NounsAI?
NounsAI.wtf is:
• An AI powered picture, video, and audio creation tool
• For pictures uses custom diffusion model to create high fidelity Nounish art and to make it a breeze to edit + restyle
• Our audio-hub is a unique node-based interface creators love, it turns words to grooves and makes it easy to break down a song into individual tracks, drums, strings,
• Video ties it all together, letting you take an audio track, arrange images like a slideshow on the timeline, and then let AI fill in the gaps creating a trippy audio-visual experience
It’s been incredible seeing the community empowered with this tool. We’ve had hundreds of users pretty much every week since January with some content getting hundreds of thousands of views. We minimized the requirements needed to run all the code so I hope people get something out of it.
You can still use it through the rest of the year at http://nounsai.wtf, make sure you select the 'SDXL-no-wrong' model in the drop down to get the best image performance
@honkdiddly has been driving this one for pretty much a year as well and packaged it all up here https://github.com/nounsai/nouns-ai-sd-server
Some thoughts on @nounsdao from a contributor POV:
• Onboarding required guidance, without awesome people like @punk4156 @noun22_ @anquetil and more I would never have been able to learn enough about Nouns to put together a proposal and lobby for votes. If there were incentives for more nouners with conviction on what should be built to go look talent it would be positive because…
• You need to CARE about SOMETHING. Someone helping you embark on a fun and well compensated learning journey makes you care. People showing up to meetings and asking questions makes you care. Bringing in investment, making a good investment, and seeing a friend you made in this community do something awesome all also make you care. But…
• It is HARD to maintain attention and it can get lonely. Often the people the hardest to reach are the ones you most want to talk to. There’s so many things going on, attention drifts, and once lost, is hard to get back. It’d be great if there was a periodic review with nouners (monthly?) baked into longer projects to keep everyone aligned and excited. Maybe add some stakes to it where if it’s going well a month can be added on to the remaining few or one taken away recouping investment.
Ultimately, it was an awesome experience. That’s why we’ve been working through our contract date of July and will keep #NounsAI up through the end of the year. It’s also been tough and even though I’m proud of what we accomplished I can’t help but feel like we failed in part. Maybe it’s all part of the experiment. One that I’m grateful to have been a part of. I hope to forever be nounish, happy to advise, share thoughts, and invest in something bigger than myself.