This was a fun product I worked on over the holidays. It does well with popular topics (like Elon) and can generate some really entertaining songs. Please share any cool songs you create, and hope you enjoy!
This is meant to be a free product with the song limit as a way to keep GPT expenses under control. Any donations go to covering GPT expenses.
I'm a cofounder at Lumina - we're a consumer hardware startup looking to build products like this.
We've done a lot of research on lighting in pursuit of building a better webcam (our main product). We found the lights on the market (i) aren't very bright, (ii) aren't smart in any way, and (iii) are way too expensive for the functionality you're getting.
Personally, I use a 100 watt LED corn bulb but it's not very pretty.
We're considering building a light as our next product. Imagine: a light that's super bright, adapts its color and intensity to the weather / time of day / other lights in your room. (If anyone has ideas here, please reach out!)
I'm the cofounder at Lumina - we're building a modern webcam designed to solve some of these problems.
There's really been a lack of innovation in the entire home office space, with the webcam being particularly bad. It sucks that a decade-old product (Logitech C920) is still the bestselling product today -- that would be like if Apple stopped releasing new phones after the iPhone 4S (launched 2012), and it remained the bestselling phone through now.
A few thoughts to add to the article:
- On why webcams aren't seeing innovation, I'd disagree that the market is too small. There's enough gross margin to produce a $B company just by selling webcams [0], especially if you can actually get customers excited about the product.
- A big reason there hasn't been innovation is that the space doesn't attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard).
- Size isn't everything. As the iPhone shows, you can get very good image quality from a tiny sensor and lens if you have the right tech supporting it. (At Lumina, most of our eng effort is on the software layer)
I would've loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago and are seeing many reviewers prefer us over the Brio (Logitech's flaghip) [1]. Personally, I'd guess we're 60% of where we can be in terms of quality and think we can achieve a quality level between an iPhone and a DSLR, hopefully closer to the latter.
This is meant to be a free product with the song limit as a way to keep GPT expenses under control. Any donations go to covering GPT expenses.