That software is an HTTP request, no?

Any number of AI apps allow you to specify a custom endpoint. As long as your AI server accepts connections to the internet, you're gravy.

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JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | parent [-]

> That software is an HTTP request, no?

You and I could write it. Most folks couldn’t. If AI plateaus, this would be a good hill to have occupied.

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dghlsakjg 4 days ago | parent [-]

My point is, what is there to build?

The person that is willing to buy that appliance is likely heavily overlapped with the person that is more than capable of pointing one of the dozens of existing apps at a custom domain.

Everyone else will continue to just use app based subscriptions.

Streaming platforms have plateaued (at best), but self hosted media appliances are still vanishingly rare.

Why would AI buck the trend that every other computing service has followed?

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itsn0tm3 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You don’t tell your media player company secrets ;)

I think there is a market here, solely based on actual data privacy. Not sure how big it is but I can see quite some companies have use for it.

	▲	dghlsakjg 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> You don’t tell your media player company secrets ;) No, but my email provider has a de-facto repository of incredibly sensitive documents. When you put convenience and cost up against privacy, the market has proven over and over that no one gives a shit.

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JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> what is there to build?

Integrated solution. You buy the box. You download the app. It works like the ChatGPT app, except it's tunneling to the box you have at home which has been preconfigured to work with the app. Maybe you have a subscription to keep everything up to date. Maybe you have an open-source model 'store'.