I assume it's the vendors who are the target to buy these. He said they charge a lot to map a venue, and so I'm guessing he wanted to create a market for the videos that they will buy. If I'm understanding correctly, it's about building up a reservoir of content, then approaching the vendors to be like "all this content is here at this rate if you want to pay this feed to unlock it.

Maybe I'm wrong though, I've spent more time typing to you than I spent reading closely :)

No no no - 2 definitions of user here. The idea is that the venue only has to cover the burn of $FIND for every instance of the video being served.

So, let's reframe this.

You go to hospital. Theoretically by this point, the tech is integrated with Epic MyCharts - once you enter the geofence of the hospital, you are sent an SMS message that guides you straight from the parking lot right to radiology.

The video is served, you use the route to arrive at radiology.

The hospital is covering the burn. The creator is getting paid royalty on the remint

As the patient, you never even know that any of that is happening

I probably need to reword that.

In my brain it makes sense but I get that is worded confusing

Accessibility is definitely critical to me tho

Core functionality and the most important imo is voice narration for vision impaired. Translated into native device language. Hasn't been implemented yet, but if done correctly by the creator, a mobility toggle becomes available that can serve best route for those who might be wheelchair bound

Make more sense?

as insane as it sounds, it‘s not much worse than the current state of tech tbh.

All of this sounds great for outdoor navigation, but then again, if you're outdoors with good GPS, you don't really need video navigation, a map will do the trick. Video is best for indoor navigation, which is where positioning is the hardest to do, so your approach doesn't work there.

This is great feedback - thank you. Video server yes - but what is really critical to me is the creator studio feature that enables nav overlays (these overlays become the throughput for accessibility for vision impaired/language barriers)

Will def look into Peertube

Credentials be damned - that's not the point. When you say "blind people will just get directions from the front desk"

You need to really understand - that isn't what they want. Same for anybody else that has what is commonly referred to as a disability (which I and many others call superpowers)

Do you know what these people want (and deserve)? Independence.

With independence, comes dignity. The feeling of having to rely on others just to exist is a tough pill to swallow for many - it's why I made this tech MIT open source.

Would be happy if people forked it and went off and helped people gain a bit more independence and dignity in their life.

The average hospital by my estimates can increase their bottomline by a half million in MIPS incentives alone - solutions like this pay for themselves - especially when there is literally no upfront investment for the health system.

But, more important than the money, is giving their patients with superpowers their independence. Period.

That's why I built this (and made it free to license)

My competition is not a paper map because people who are blind cannot see a paper map.

Are those fire escape plans printed in multiple languages for the amount of people who show up to a hospital and do not speak english?

Why is it that the healthcare industry is losing so much money in staff hours to manual wayfinding assistance and it's a known problem?

Did you know that indoor navigation assistance qualifies now as patient experience improvements - meaning hospitals actually MAKE money by improving wayfinding within the facility?

Rather naive take you have...

Do you have any idea how many hospitals went bankrupt last year? How many frontline healthcare workers lost their jobs?

Isn't HN supposed to be a place for serious discussion about tech?

Imagine if Google said - Well, people have Rand McNally Atlas' so I guess the market is spoken for... Lol

The intention for scale is this

You book a flight The airline sends the navigation route in your booking confirmation SMS/E-mail pre arrival with the correct route to get you from security and to your gate Venue is covering the burn Creator gets royalties on the remint And with navigation like this - the opportunity for advertising revenue is huge.

Can literally have an overlay on the video for discounts at an airport retail outlet at the exact moment that the end user is walking past the retail outlet

This is where the creator studio comes in - each published and validated video is going to have its own unique URL which can be launched via QR/NFC or just the direct link at the venue.

I haven't got to that part yet truly - that's next step for me is to go get some pilots (content) to start testing that flow

Appreciate that - thank you :)