Been working on a newer version of https://micropay.ai for the past few weeks after a brief hiatus. Will have tons of new features I believe this community would love!

The idea is to provide our service to as many developers as possible who want to create lightning apps but don't want to manage a node. We would fundraise to fuel this early growth similar to strike.me and then consider pricing models in the future.

Yes, it would be non-custodial. Funds will be sent directly to your wallet using wallet wrappers like Lndhub. This would also work with your personal node like Umbrel for example!

Feel free to ask more questions! We are still in the ideation stage. Please let us know if anything else doesn't make sense.

@k00b would this product be useful for you?

The user would use their own wallet such as Bluewallet or Wallet of Satoshi. The sats deposited using our product will be directly deposited into your personal wallet. We will not hold any of your funds.

Does that answer your question?

Thanks!

Hey stackers!

@haseab and I have been toying around with the idea of creating a lightning payments API to get developers from 0 -> 1 so they can build lightning-enabled apps within minutes.

A couple questions I have for you:

That's actually very insightful! I'm really glad you mentioned this. It seems like there exists several products on the internet which charge subscription pricing but really should not be. Those products, as you described, are needed in the spur of the moment for a couple uses but are not valuable beyond that. Those products are the perfect usecase for micropayments.

Great point! Also yes, we are actively exploring all possible use cases and services where we can branch out from.

A question for you: What are some services you use in your own life where you wish you could pay-per-use?

This is an amazing list thank you! I dug into them and it looks like there are even a few open questions about implementing this on the protocol level.

Thanks for the input! Seems like not too many consumers have come across this issue yet

That's a great question! Simply put, you enter any text and it generates an image based on the input. It uses this AI model under the hood - https://openai.com/dall-e-2/. Payments are accepted over lightning. We're also expanding to support more products soon

Take a look at https://micropay.ai and let me know what you think 😊

⚡️ Building a micropayments-only merchant on Bitcoin https://micropay.ai ❌ No emails, no sign ups, no KYC.

https://micropay.ai for DALLE-2 Image Generations

Working on that as soon as I achieve stability with the current iteration!

if anyone is curious about what the generations look like, I just hooked up the website to the telegram group so all new images get shared automatically 😄

Creator here, thanks for sharing @kr!