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We Paid Users $300K to Upload Their Camera Rolls, Homework, and Dashcam Footage

kled.ai
13 points·by Avipat_·vor 12 Monaten·38 comments

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Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
I've literally never used HN before, a friend suggested I write a post on here for hiring. Lol last thing I care about is self promotion, we're doing just fine.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
working on it
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
Can't reply to ur other comment but yea, Latham and Watkins represents us. The best lawyers on the planet, so yea we've talked to lawyers about it lol.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
We paid $300,000 to 500 users, there's over 10,000 on the waitlist still. Each of them have uploaded over 200GB of data. Some at the 1TB limit.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
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Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
the money came directly from AI Labs paying for it. not venture or anything else.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
we have around 4000 uber drives that are being onboarded now all uploading their dashcam footage. will see how valubale that data is soon.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
They are actively paying for it now, and regulation is moving in that direction as well. Regardless, someone's camera roll data, for example, isn't publicly available, meaning it can be sold, unlike someone's Instagram photos.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
lol yea, not sure what that guy is on
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
It’s not just boilerplate. We actively verify uploads using multiple signals: EXIF metadata, timestamps, device signatures, and visual similarity checks. If a file wasn't captured by the uploader’s device or shows signs of being scraped/copied, it gets flagged or rejected.

In short, if it's not your original content, it won’t pass. And we’re constantly tightening this loop as we scale.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
Correct but the person who took the pic/vid owns the rights for it legally speaking. This content is already being trained off of, scraped off YouTube, Instagram etc. All Kled does is put the money back into the pockets of the people.
Avipat_
·vor 12 Monaten·discuss
We launched Kled 6 weeks ago as a data marketplace for everyday people. Users upload personal content like camera rolls, dashcam footage, homework, POV recordings, and original music, and we pay them for it.

While AI companies scrape public data to train their models, we’re building a platform that compensates users and gives AI labs access to licensed, high-quality data.

The product took off quickly. We did over 20 million impressions on Twitter, more than 10,000 people signed up, petabytes of data were uploaded, and we’ve paid out over $300,000 to users.

Every file uploaded is automatically classified and made searchable so AI companies can instantly license the exact datasets they need.

Over the next five weeks, we’re doubling down on our labeling operations and hiring top AI engineers. We’ve raised over $2 million in venture capital at a $40 million valuation. High pay and high equity. Email [email protected]