HACKER Q&A
📣 lostmsu

Investor? Seeking Investment?


Checking if there's interest in an investments-related thread similar to hiring/freelancing threads.

Please, start with LOOKING TO INVEST or SEEKING INVESTMENTS with optional location/geographical area of interest. Add some TAGS like ML, FINANCE, AGRICULTURE.

If seeking for an investment, describe your project or startup as much as you can without revealing the "secret sauce". List: amount you are looking for, what are you going to spend the investment on, your current team (1 man is also good!), and how do you plan to earn money.

If looking for investment opportunities, please specify area(s) of interest or specific project idea(s), how much are you willing to share, and the desired stake in the company or project.


  👤 lostmsu Accepted Answer ✓
SEEKING INVESTMENT | Greater Seattle Area | ML, MUSIC

Project or startup: Music streaming service with AI-generated music and lyrics

Seeking for: $200,000 investment for up to 20% stake

Spending on:

- $180,000 for 1y salary for R&D

- $20,000 for hardware purchase/rent for model training

Team: just myself, software engineer with ML background

Business model: streaming subscription

Some preliminary work: Google showed neural networks can be used to generate music in MIDI format ( https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ ), own project shows GPT-2 can generate song lyrics ( http://billion.dev.losttech.software:2095/ , based on the initial small 117M GPT-2 release ). MIDI format supports lyrics tracks, so the two can be combined, producing karaoke-like experience. There are also singing voice synthesizers on the market, which could be used to automatically generate song recordings. Alternatively, real performers could record tracks.