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Your Life, Auto-Edited Daily.

The One Liner

The next social network lives on your shirt.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

A wearable AI camera that silently records, edits, and posts your life, turning existence into effortless content.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem

Everyone’s chasing authenticity while staging everything. Phones made us directors of our own lives. except now we’re burnt out, addicted to “capture mode,” and missing the actual moments we’re trying to save.

Every dinner, every hike, every concert turns into a production. But here’s the irony: the people who seem the most effortless online are the most systemized offline. They don’t make content; they live it. The rest of us are still fumbling for our phones while the magic passes by.

The Solution
Now imagine this: a camera so small and smart it feels invisible. You clip it on once, and it captures your world like a silent co-pilot, no posing, no retakes, no hands. It records continuously, detects emotion and context (laughter, sunlight, applause), then your AI editor powered by Pika, Runway, and Whisper, trims, captions, and syncs to trending audio. One tap later, your highlights drop to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or whatever the next platform is.

This isn’t about hardware, it’s about presence. The camera just sees. The AI tells the story. And you? You live the movie.

How We’d Build It

Stage 1 – Hacker Mode (Solo Builder / Indie Dev)

• Use Insta360 GO 3 or DJI Action 2 for capture.

• Automate uploads via Zapier to a private S3 bucket.

• Run Whisper API for voice/sound cues, Pika Labs API for auto-editing.

• Prototype UI in Bubble, pipeline managed through Make.com.

• Launch to indie vloggers and founders documenting builds.

Stage 2 – Startup Mode (Small Team)

• Build custom lightweight camera using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W + Sony IMX219 sensor.

• Add Perplexity API for semantic scene detection, ElevenLabs for narration.

• Companion app: real-time AI summaries, privacy toggles, “highlight reels” dashboard.

• GTM: launch on Kickstarter + Product Hunt, seed units to travel and lifestyle creators.

Stage 3 – Platform Mode (Viral Scale)

• Partner with Garmin or Lume Cube to embed your AI capture layer.

• Add Rewind.ai SDK + Claude for contextual tagging (“remember this moment”).

• Launch “Life Stream”, your private, auto-curated daily story.

• GTM: Creator collaborations with Casey Neistat, Emma Chamberlain, Marques Brownlee.

• Viral hook: “Never film again. Just live — it edits itself.”

Why It Needs to Exist
Because we’ve hit peak performative living. Everyone’s documenting, nobody’s experiencing. This flips it — you live your life, and AI turns it into art. No filters, no FOMO, no retakes just real moments that actually happened. It’s the bridge between memory and media.

Snap was too early. Meta made it corporate. This time, timing and tech are right. Whisper can hear emotion. Pika can visualize stories. AI can finally understand context.

This is the next evolution after Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube where the act of living creates the content. The next social network won’t live on your phone… it’ll live on you.

Find the Cracks Before You Build the Stream

A Message From Our Partner

Before you sprint off to code your “anyone-can-livestream-anything” platform, pause. The fastest way to waste six months is to build for a problem no one’s actually screaming about. That’s where GummySearch comes in clutch, it’s like a metal detector for unmet demand hiding in Reddit threads.

Here’s how you’d use it:

1️⃣ Spot the pain in the wild.
Type “livestream problem,” “can’t attend concert,” or “missed my kid’s game” into GummySearch and watch Reddit hand you free user research. You’ll see real complaints, buffering nightmares, expensive paywalls, or “why can’t I just stream this for my grandma?” moments. That’s gold.

2️⃣ Uncover niches nobody’s serving.
You might find subreddits begging for better streaming of church services, local sports, school plays, or even small-town theater. These tiny communities = micro-markets with passionate users and zero competition.

3️⃣ Validate monetization early.
Search “paid livestream,” “tip streamers,” or “how much would you pay.” Real people tell you how they’d spend money long before you’ve written a line of code. That’s a built-in business model waiting for you to show up.

4️⃣ Reuse the process for anything.
Even if livestreaming isn’t your lane, this workflow works anywhere. Replace “livestream” with “meal prep,” “AI tools,” or “side hustles,” and suddenly you’re mining startup ideas while everyone else is doomscrolling.

You don’t need a focus group or a $10K survey. You just need curiosity and a search bar. GummySearch turns Reddit’s chaos into clarity. showing you what people actually want, not what founders wish they did.

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The Timeline Split

Two timelines. Same person. One idea.

Timeline A: He built it.
Timeline B: He didn’t.

Let’s watch both unfold.

Timeline A — The Builder
Six months after launch, every parent in town is livestreaming their kid’s soccer game. Grandma’s watching from Florida. Aunt Linda’s commenting like it’s the Super Bowl. Coaches are reviewing footage Monday morning like pros. The founder’s inbox? Flooded with youth leagues asking to license the platform.

He calls it “LocalTV.” The tagline: “For the moments ESPN forgot.”

At first, it’s messy, buffering, dropped audio, weird camera angles. But then he plugs in an AI layer that auto-edits highlights, syncs commentary, and suggests the best moments to share. Suddenly, it’s magic. Every dad becomes a broadcaster. Every kid gets their “Top 10 Plays” clip.

The company scales. Schools adopt it. Churches stream services. Gyms broadcast competitions. And advertisers? They love it, hyperlocal attention, hyper-engaged viewers.

When people ask how it happened, he says, “I just built what Reddit was complaining about.” He used GummySearch to find 300 parents ranting about missing their kid’s games. That was enough signal.

Now he’s profitable, running a real business built on something simple giving normal people the power to share life in real time.

Timeline B — The Talker
Same person. Same idea. Different outcome.

He still brings it up at bars. “You know what someone should build? An app for streaming kids’ games. Like, little ESPN for everyone.”

His friends nod. “Yeah, that’d crush.”
He smiles. “Right?”
Then the topic changes.

A year later, he sees a TechCrunch headline:
“Startup Raises $12M to Help Parents Livestream Youth Sports.”

His stomach drops. It’s his idea. Just… not his name.

He tells himself timing wasn’t right. That he didn’t have the connections. That the founder probably knew someone at Y Combinator. But deep down, he knows the truth: he didn’t hit record.

The Debate
Which version do you want to be?

The builder says: “The difference between a billion-dollar startup and a napkin sketch is one bad prototype that accidentally works.”

The talker says: “You can’t just build it, hardware’s tough, streaming’s expensive, and what about privacy?”

The builder shrugs: “Every big idea sounds stupid before it’s obvious.”

The talker raises his glass: “Yeah, well, not every idea deserves to exist.”

The builder laughs: “Exactly. But this one did.”

We love to think the big swing comes with a perfect plan, but it usually starts with a blurry first take. The only difference between the two worlds isn’t timing, talent, or connections. It’s momentum.

One founder kept talking.
The other one hit record.

The $100M Napkin 📝

They say billion-dollar startups start on napkins.
We saved the ones that never got built.

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A digital-to-physical social network that matches creators and fans who want to actually live together. Think “find your vibe, build your tribe, move-in-ready.”

Sketch #42 — The Bank That Rewards You for Boring Habits
Every time you cook at home, pay off a card, or walk instead of Uber, it automatically invests the savings. Good behavior becomes your side income.

The best part? These napkins are still blank enough for your name.

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