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@Kidlogic: No offense taken. I agree it does look a bit random, but we are working on the hypothesis that we will never need a website for this. A detailed explanation is something I missed, apologies for that.

Well broadly the purpose of Aaahit is to be your smartest phonebook contact who you can ask anything. This includes eventually having a discussion on grey area topics to finding information quickly. Right now it helps in translations, wiki'ing stuff, getting the latest cricket scores or checking your train reservation status ( for India only ).

Right now it works on top of Whatsapp, but we are adding other messengers shortly. Capabilities right now are translating, checking wikipedia, latest cricket scores, check indian railways pnr status and some fun stuff like jokes. We are essentially working towards the conversation + answering grey area questions category.

It's not buddy, It is a personal assistant on Whatsapp, a small A.I project we are working on. Working on a one pager to go with it.

How can you see the 2048 grid without internet? Only the actions are controlled via SMS, you still need internet to view the page.

I don't think that should be a problem? In any case we will allow the publisher to use any other micro transaction system that they are "comfortable" with :).

Okay, I got what you said. Yeah, any intermediate step would kill the seamless experience :(. Will need to figure this out, thanks!

Thanks! We want the consumer to get a feel of the article quality early on.

We think the algorithm to summarize is resistant to tailoring due to some core assumptions we are making. We are not dependent on the title and so on.

If such a system gets adopted, it would to some extent clear up the insanity that is ads on good articles no matter where its posted.

Interesting, this would also put across our argument to use bitcoins maybe? and not regular currency transactions.

We do agree, but its been tough trying to get the broad investor community to see value/ability without building fences around your core tech. Some even see this as validation. We don't.

Not too sure how others feel about this, this specific advice has come from fellow entrepreneurs who have managed to figure things out (i.e. raising, team, etc).

So, another way of looking at it is the app store/app upgrades way. You pay using smaller increments, but have a view of the goods that you are buying. So instead of a future commitment, its more about paying for what you want now.

If its seamless, then micro transactions work. It also implies you are distracted enough not to do a future projection of the longer term aggregate costs incurred :).