Your practical starting point to everywhere
How to become....
an organic chemist?
a web developer?
climber?
singer?
kundalini yogi?
How to get into...
vegan cooking?
woodworking?
sculpting?
gardening?
Curated set of learning resources for a beginner to any topic
Hey Chris, what books do you recommend to learn HTML / CSS these days? Where should I look at?
Hey Martin, I've collected the best resources here, it has links to my articles but also to other great people's work I highly respect: otimo.us/43429...
Thanks! Will take a look 👀
Ótimo does not provide own content.
A curator introduces a topic and provides a list of high quality resources
Users have the option to upvote, downvote and comment on resources
Curator maintains the resources long-term and keeps the resources up to date, using the feedback from the community
Autofill title & description & resource type when pasting a link
Continuously check links for uptime and content changes
Continuously search the web for new resources to be checked by the curator
Recognising links from different platforms and providing special functionality (previews, highlight)
Chat with an AI BOT that was trained specifically on the list of resources
🔓 Unlocking parts of the list for $
🔓 Unlocking whole lists for $
🔓 One time bigger fee to get initial information + small fee subscription to get updates
🔓 Curator does not sell their own content - they are providing & monetising their discernment
Public and private lists: free
Sharing with specific users + collaboration: paid
Premium features?
"Discernment is the ability to perceive, understand, and judge things clearly, especially those that are not obvious or straightforward."
Primary source of users: domain experts bring their community
Secondary sources:
Users sign up to unlock the list
📩 Emails: list updates (new resources)
📩 Emails: new recommended lists
📩 Emails: new activity on the subscribed list (comments)
📩 Emails: asking for feedback based on links they visited
Young professionals (or to be professionals)
People in between jobs / ppl that reinvent themselves
People in need of constant learning (tech, medicine, consultants, managers)
Entrepreneurs / CEOs (people that are "jack of all trades")
Hobbyists
Power learners / self dev enthusiasts
Github - awesome lists and other repositories
- static content, no functionality
+ collaborative in nature
- strong technical focus
ChatGPT - not that aware of latest developments, provides too mainstream answers, hallucinating
Bard - potentially providing faulty results just like Google does, falls prey to SEO tactics
Wikipedia - too descriptive, vast, not empathetic enough to the beginner
People are selling Google spreadsheets (Gumroad, Patreon...)
These monetisation platforms are not specialised for lists. Management in Google Sheets / Airtable is great, but specialised platform can offer more.
Ótimo can provide CSV import / export or sync
Ótimo can be "Gumroad for lists". Helping to not only sell them, but also to create and maintain them.
Create few high quality lists as examples
Frontend development
Airtable
Find people who already sell such lists elsewhere
Offer them to move their lists to Ótimo
Offer 100% of profits
Listen to their feedback to make the platform as good possible for them
Find 5 or more other domain experts and assist them with list creation
No hosting of video or audio
Costs: cloud services, consulting, engineering, AI costs, salaries
Income: list unlocking, list subscriptions, premiums, potentially affiliate links
Advertising
Costs & Incomes relatively decoupled (no issues with scaling)
BetterSheets: lifetime access for $49
NewsletterOS: lifetime access for $49
UserBooster: lifetime access for $49
PodcastOS: lifetime access for $49
$9,000 in revenue over the past 5 months | $1800 / month
$35,000 in revenue over the past 5 months | $7000 / month
Assuming having 4 lists like these with ~$3000 / month revenue and 20% fee: $2400 MRR
OrganicChemistryOS?
InvestingOS?
EcologyList?
Some landing page structure
Architecture for listing of cards / actions (with tweaks)
The core technological foundation
Registered company, Privacy policy, TOS...
Frontend Developer @ Leadfeeder
Frontend developer @ GoOut
Programming mentor @ GreenFox Academy
Technical Co-Founder @ Herohero | > $81k MRR
Frontend Developer @ TopMonks
AIs are trained on quality datasets. Ótimo is not about publishing content. It points to quality sources.
Resources from Ótimo lists can be used as a dataset to AI.
We're effectively sharing a starting point. An initial point where to explore from. This is useful both to a human and AI.
AI needs validation from humans on what information is quality and what not. Just like humans.
RLHF is commonly used to improve LLMs (reinforcement learning with human feedback)
Stage 1: Platform for list publishing & monetisation
Stage 2: Platform for discovery of quality lists. Category -> Topic -> Link.
Users come because curators brought them over
AI models use the platform for training
Stage 3: Platform serves as a source of validation for high quality information (quality datasets).
Advanced methods for content curation and validation. Evaluating the quality of lists. Peer review between different curators. Evaluating feedback from users.
Self evolving lists.