Hey all, I’m really excited to introduce PayPerQ (ppq.ai), a vanilla ChatGPT4 experience which operates on a pay-per-query model via lightning payments:
As I see it, the primary use cases are:
- Making GPT4 available to users who may not want to pay for a full $20 ChatGPT Plus subscription,
- Making GPT4 available to global users who may find it difficult to connect a VISA/Mastercard to OpenAI.
As an example, you could run 10-20 queries a day through ppa.ai and still only spend ~$10 per month, and without having the burden of linking a credit card!
Overall, I believe these two use cases could be really strong and that this bot could become the default GPT4 experience for many Bitcoin adjacent global developers and professionals around the world.
In terms of how the payments actually work, users have two options:
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Deposit a lump sum credit and draw on that credit over time,
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Use realtime streaming payments directly from your Alby wallet (soon to be all NWC wallets).
I know that PayPerQ currently is not as feature rich as a ChatGPT Plus subscription, but as a developer, 95% of my usage currently is just using regular GPT4. For that reason, I’ve been focusing on making the GPT4 experience as polished as possible. Good layout and readability, consistent functionality, and a quick and easy payment flow have been my priorities so far.
If you are a regular user of GPT4 and you take some time out of your day to try this out, please come back to me and answer this question:
"What is stopping ppq.ai from becoming your default ChatGPT experience?"
If you could let me know your answer to this it would greatly help me in making improvements.
Transparency:
ppq.ai does not know your name or email.
ppq.ai does know your IP address and user agent string.
ppq.ai does not store the content of your queries or the content of the output from openAI. Your content is sent through my server and onto openAI, but it is not stored on my server. All of your conversation content data is stored in your own browser history in localstorage.
ppq.ai does store the number of input tokens your query has as well as the number of output tokens that openAI generated. I do this so that I can configure pricing appropriately.
ppq.ai has to run every query through openAI’s moderation API. If I didn’t do this, a user querying for pedo stuff, bombmaking stuff, etc could cause openAI to shut off ppq.ai’s entire account, ruining it for everyone.
Request for help:
I would like to build this into a business, but I am not a seasoned developer by trade. If you are also passionate about this project and experienced in typescript, nextjs, and express, please reach out to me!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PPQdotAI
Telegram: https://t.me/+ZjJDTazIrV0zNDFh
My thoughts on ppq.ai’s impact on lightning adoption:
While the premise of this app may seem basic, I believe that, if executed well, it may become the first major app to really spur lightning adoption beyond hobbyists. Why? Because it's actually solving real problems by saving people money and giving them access they might not otherwise have.
PayPerQ represents one of first practical pay-per-use models out there and may be help us all get away from the many monthly subscriptions we have for data storage, entertainment, news content, and more.