news

한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina

The article is reproduced from QbitAI
Author: Dream Morning West Wind

Developers of popular AI applications are here to share their earnings:

Earn $4,000 per hour!

I'm talking about the viral "venomous AI" Twitter Personality. Just enter a Twitter username and you'll get AI's sharp comments based on your past remarks.

And as long as it is a public account, it does not require any permissions. In addition to checking AI's opinion of yourself, you can also use it to prank your friends or even celebrities.

For example, Musk will definitely not be able to escape this disaster.

First, AI will summarize several emojis that can represent this person: rocket (SpaceX), battery (Tesla), brain (Neuralink), money, earth, robot... It seems that AI really understands Lao Ma.

Then he started to talk about Musk's dark history of delaying the Cybertruck several times and his conceited personality.

When this venomous AI was at its most popular, it dominated the screen, with netizens all over the world constantly sharing it, and it was impossible to keep up with it.

They have now reached the 5 million user milestone and earned $22,000 (about 157,000 yuan) in 8 hours.

At this critical moment when the big cuts could be made, the author Kyzo stood up and announced: We are completely open source on GitHub.

All code, including the prompts, is open source, so you can take it and create your own shell application. We have nothing to hide, so it's time to start creating.

1

The founder urgently asks for help: If we don’t charge, we will go bankrupt

"Poisonous Tongue AI" Twitter Personality is built on the low-code development platform Wordware.

If you were well-informed and got to play it a few days ago, then congratulations, you could still try it for free at that time.

Since the surge in users on August 7, they felt that they could no longer afford the website traffic and large model tokens.

Filip, one of the founders, posted an urgent online post asking for help, asking everyone to help and give ideas on how to increase the income appropriately, otherwise it will be closed regrettably and no one will be able to play.

They also want to get free Claude API points from Anthropic, from which we can see that the large model they use is the latest Claude-3.5-Sonnet.

However, the reality will not wait for them to come up with a good idea. The crazy influx of users can burn a lot of money every second.

In the end, they can simply open a paywall and adjust prices at any time, taking it one step at a time.

The author Kyzo revealed that when the number of users grew too fast, they started charging. After a period of time, when the growth was insufficient, they restored the service to free, which brought about another wave of viral spread.

There is a clear cyclicality that can be seen in the graph of revenue changes over time.

The prices themselves are also adjusted dynamically at any time and are set according to the consumption capacity of different regions.

In developed areas, the price is $6.99 per game (about 50 yuan), and in areas with low spending power, the price is around $1 (about 7.17 yuan).

However, if someone has paid for an account, subsequent users can also view the results directly for free.

Later, the function was updated and the function of checking whether two accounts are compatible was added. It also costs 50 yuan to play once.

It feels a bit like the post in the circle of friends: "Want to know the fate index between you and him/her? Send: your name + the name of your favorite person, such as: Guo Jing + Huang Rong, and v me 50."

And since it became popular in Japan, they found that Japanese users not only really love to play this, but are also willing to pay for it, thus achieving a revenue of $4,000 per hour during Japan's prime time in the evening.

So how did this American AI app become popular in Japan and the global market?

According to Filip, it was initially because of a change in one prompt: reply using the language used in most tweets from that account.

No need to modify the code, no need to invest in marketing. Just modify one sentence to open up the global market.

This is the charm of the big model "natural language programming".

1

The development platform behind it is Wordware, with a valuation of 180 million

The low-code development platform behind it, Wordware, can be said to be a phenomenal product of ProductHunt's new product launch platform, allowing anyone to build complex AI Agents and APPs.

Its team members said that in the past 24 hours, an average of 36.03 new users registered every minute. This is not just empty propaganda, they even directly posted screenshots of the backend database query.

The last product that was so popular on ProductHunt was the 2.0 version of Notion, a globally popular note-taking tool, which was released in 2018.

In terms of operation, Wordware is modular like Notion, with "one line" as the smallest operable unit and the familiar slash to bring up the command menu.

Users can build, test, collaborate and deploy prompt words and their related logic in one editor, and build apps with simple text.

The name Wordware has the same origin as software (Software) and hardware (Hardware), and may be translated as "wordware".

APPs built based on Wordware are collectively referred to as WordApps.

Wordware received investment from YC this spring, and its valuation before YC had reached US$25 million (approximately RMB 180 million).

The team currently has only three people. The founders Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler became friends in Cambridge ten years ago because of their common interest in machine learning and large language models.

Team member Kamil Ruczynski is also active on social platforms. He joined Wordware in March this year as growth director.

Both of them have launched machine learning products in different fields. Before the term "AI Ops" became popular, they began to study some early large models such as BERT and GPT-2 and create a high-performance technology stack.

Before founding Wordware, Filip Kozera also started a business. He co-founded a company dedicated to enhancing human memory called KRISTALIC, which raised over $10 million in financing.

He has a wide range of hobbies in life. He has traveled to 103 countries, participated in many high-altitude mountain rescue operations, and participated in activities such as sailing, paragliding, kite surfing and boxing.

Robert Chandler was one of the first engineers at UK company FiveAI, leading its offline perception team.

FiveAI is a company dedicated to using the latest AI technology to achieve autonomous driving, and was later acquired by German automotive parts giant Bosch Group.

Wordware was founded in 2021, with Filip Kozera as CEO and Robert Chandler as CTO.

Kamil Ruczynski studied construction technology and construction management at Copenhagen Business School, but dropped out. He then studied management at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, completing the three-year course in two years.

LinkedIn shows that Kamil Ruczynski has served as a senior manager for the Asia-Pacific region at the food delivery platform foodpanda and as a senior strategic consultant at the management consulting firm EY-Parthenon.

The main author of this "poisonous AI" Twitter Personality, Kyzo, is an independent developer and digital nomad who works closely with Wordware officials.

Currently, Twitter Personality is the most successful application and golden signboard on the entire platform. If you search for Wordware on Google, you will find that they put it first after the homepage.

After clicking in, you can see that in addition to trial play, using this overwhelming traffic to promote the platform is given equal importance.

Just click to register, and you can directly carry out secondary development based on this.

Just like that, the entire secret of the popular app was revealed in just an 800-word prompt + a simple crawler code.

In other words, as long as you describe the idea of ​​the product, the product will be there, and you can run it by clicking the "Run" button.

CEO Filip Kozera revealed that he and Robert Chandler had built a strong partnership in the past two and a half years in the face of adversity, and their ultimate goal is to:

Revolutionize the way enterprises apply AI.

They firmly believe in the importance of domain experts in AI application development because experts in various fields know what are good answers, but programmers do not.

At the same time, they also proposed "AI enhances human capabilities". AI can process large amounts of data and identify patterns that humans may overlook, but the final decision often requires human judgment and consideration, and humans must be involved.

In fact, this concept is almost a consensus in the AI ​​circle. As early as when ChatGPT was first released, OpenAI founding member Karpathy believed that large models made English a programming language.

By 2024, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang also publicly expressed the view that "human language is the newest programming language, and everyone in the world is a programmer."

Some netizens commented that Wordware is the product embodiment of Huang's idea.

Trial address:
https://twitter.wordware.ai

Reference Links:
[1]https://x.com/ky__zo/status/1822187239117308264
[2]https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wordware
[3]https://x.com/kozerafilip/status/1820957760458281317
[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FQiqVQkVM