{"id":2891,"date":"2022-07-06T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:16:49","slug":"tunesage-progress-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"TuneSage progress update 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goal last week was to &#8220;finish backend and overhaul frontend&#8221;, which definitely did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>My work on the backend unfortunately came to another dead end. I was trying automate the training of the AI so that I could just give it melodies and it would train on them with little oversight. It worked, but too inefficiently; it must be continually tweaked to work well, so the whole endeavor ends up taking even more time. For now, it seems it will be more efficient time-wise to train it manually. In other words, I think it will be more time-efficient to use supervised learning rather than unsupervised learning. (Which is perhaps an obvious outcome, but it was worth a try.)<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m already weeks behind! Schedule now looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week and next week: Finish backend and overhaul frontend<\/li>\n<li>Week 3: Soundfont and user account system, start releasing samples<\/li>\n<li>Week 4: Register company, install payment and analyctics systems<\/li>\n<li>Week 5: Set up trial, stress testing, front page update, and launch!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admittedly, it will still likely take longer than that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions about startup idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last startup school webinar was about evaluating your idea for a startup, and included a number of good questions to ask yourself about an idea to help with that. Granted, I&#8217;ve already chosen an idea (AI music SaaS), but I thought it still might be interesting to answer the questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Does your team have founder \/ market fit to work on this idea?<\/strong> I don&#8217;t really have a team, but yes, as a programmer and a music composer, I think I have good founder \/ market fit. The product is something I want for myself and would use.<\/li>\n<li><b>How big is the market for this idea today?\u00a0<\/b>I don&#8217;t know. There are other AI music services out there, but I don&#8217;t know how good their profits are. The market for music software in general, however, is huge.<\/li>\n<li><b>How big could it be in a few years?<\/b> Again, I don&#8217;t know, but I haven&#8217;t seen any indication that it&#8217;s growing rapidly at the moment.<\/li>\n<li><b>What is the problem you hope this product will solve? Have you seen this problem first hand? How are confident are you that it\u2019s actually a problem? For your users, how acute and frequent is the problem?<\/b> Composing music can be time consuming; there are lots of creative decisions to make. It can also be difficult to get going if you&#8217;re just getting started or haven&#8217;t done it in a while. Yes, I have experienced this first hand. I know others have this problem as well, as my previous melody generating apps attracted some users. As for how frequent and acute the problem is, I don&#8217;t know; I&#8217;ll have to talk to more users.<\/li>\n<li><b>Do you have entrenched competition? If so, how will you beat them? <\/b>Yes, there are a few competitors in AI music. I need to do some more research on them, but in my opinion, they&#8217;re of limited use, particularly because they do not generate interesting melodies. They&#8217;re output tends to sound either too random or too bland. My focus on melody may be a good starting point to beat them.<\/li>\n<li><b>Is this something you personally want and would use?<\/b> Definitely!<\/li>\n<li><b>Did this idea only recently become possible, or only recently become necessary?<\/b> Yes and no. The algorithms would certainly be possible to run on older computers, but they take time to come up with.\n<ol>\n<li><b>If not, why has no one solved it before?\u00a0<\/b>The algorithms are not obvious, I suppose, even with popular modern AI paradigms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>What are the proxies &#8211; large, successful companies that do something similar to this?\u00a0<\/b>I don&#8217;t know if there are any. None that I know of, anyway.<\/li>\n<li><b>Is this a problem that you personally care about? Is it something that you would be willing to work on for a long time?<\/b> Yes and yes.<\/li>\n<li><b>Can your solution scale? Could this be a consulting business in disguise?<\/b> Since it&#8217;s an SaaS, yes, scaling is possible.<\/li>\n<li><b>Is this idea in a good \u201cidea space\u201d?\u00a0<\/b>I think? I&#8217;m not really sure what the &#8220;idea space&#8221; for AI music is.<\/li>\n<li><b>How did you come up with this idea? Did you start with the problem or the solution?<\/b> Started with the problem. In fact, don&#8217;t even have solutions to all the problems yet! But I think the solutions are reachable.<\/li>\n<li><b>Do you have a new insight about this idea, one that few others have?\u00a0<\/b>Yes, I think my approach to generating melodies is a new insight; I don&#8217;t see any other service offering decent melody generation at the moment.<\/li>\n<li><b>What are the current alternatives that people use instead of your product? Why will people switch to your product? 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