Integrate Dash into Autoshow

ajcwebdev

ajcwebdev

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Hey everyone, I've been chatting with Rion and he encouraged me to create a proposal for integrating Dash payments into a new application I'm currently building. The application is a content repurposing tool that generates various outputs based on audio and video files including summaries, chapter descriptions, blog posts, song lyrics, and more.

Here's the proposal draft, feel free to leave any comments or thoughts:

Autoshow Dash Integration Proposal (March–August 2025)​

Owner: Anthony Campolo
Requested funding: 80 Dash per month, for 6 months (total of 480 Dash)
Dates covered: March 2025 – August 2025

Proposal Summary​

Autoshow is a platform that automates ingestion and processing of video and audio content from YouTube, podcasts, RSS feeds, and local files. It transcribes, summarizes, and generates chapters for content using various transcription services (like Whisper) and large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT.

Why Vote Yes?​

Supporting this proposal integrates Dash into an expanding AI platform for creators and businesses, increases its visibility, offers user incentives and valuable monthly feedback, and drives long-term growth through ongoing development and marketing.

How It Works​

  1. Content Input: Users provide video URLs, playlists, podcast RSS feeds, or local media files.
  2. Download & Transcription: Audio is downloaded if needed, then transcribed using a chosen service.
  3. LLM Processing: The transcript is passed to an LLM to generate summaries, show notes, chapters, or other outputs based on user-defined prompts.
  4. User Output: Autoshow delivers structured output (e.g., Markdown, text) for easy sharing or editing.

Dash Integration Goals​

This proposal requests 80 Dash per month for six months to fully integrate Dash payments into Autoshow. Key objectives include:

  • Actionable Feedback for the Dash Community: Provide insights on crypto payment flows, user experience, and ways to improve Dash development tools.
  • Accepting Dash as Payment: Let users buy Autoshow credits with Dash at a discounted rate.
  • Promoting Dash on the Autoshow Front Page
  • Dash as the Default Crypto
  • Discount Credits for Dash-Focused Content

What This Proposal Funds​

  1. Dash Placement & Promotion
    • Prominent Dash branding on Autoshow’s homepage and documentation.
    • Discounted rates for those paying with Dash.
    • Default crypto payment option set to Dash.
    • Free or bonus credits for content related to Dash.
  2. Dash Integration & Development
    • Building and maintaining a “Pay with Dash” flow, with an emphasis on InstantSend.
    • Implementing real-time transaction detection and automatic credit allocation.
    • Continuous upkeep and troubleshooting for the Dash module over six months.
    • Create credit system on Dash Platform
  3. Community Reporting & Collaboration
    • Regular progress reports on user feedback, transaction data, and adoption metrics.
    • Collaboration with Dash Growth, the Incubator, and Dash Core Group for best practices.
    • Sharing code snippets and developer documentation to help future integrations.

Key Deliverables & Timeline​

Months 1–2 (March–April 2025)​

  • Dash Payment Flow Implementation
    • Develop and launch the “Pay with Dash” feature for credit purchases.
    • Integrate a Dash discount mechanism and ensure smooth user experience.
    • Update landing pages and dashboards to spotlight Dash as the default crypto payment.

Months 3–4 (May–June 2025)​

  • Dash-Themed Incentives & Tutorials
    • Offer free or bonus credits for content creators producing Dash-related audio/video.
    • Roll out user-friendly documentation and video tutorials on using Dash in Autoshow.
    • Mid-project update: share transaction stats, usage trends, and key insights.

Months 5–6 (July–August 2025)​

  • Optimization & Final Reporting
    • Refine payment flows based on feedback, ensuring maximum stability and ease of use.
    • Provide a comprehensive end-of-proposal report with user adoption metrics, ROI, and technical lessons learned.
    • Continue coordinating with Dash ecosystem teams to share insights, code, and recommended improvements.

Reporting & Communication​

  • Monthly Updates: Progress, metrics, and any blockers will be posted on DashCentral (or your preferred Dash forum).
  • Direct Support: Reach out to ajcwebdev for questions or suggestions.
  • Final Report: A detailed summary at the conclusion of Month 6, covering usage statistics, successes, challenges, and recommended next steps.

Thank You for Your Consideration​

By voting “Yes,” you help expand Dash’s real-world utility in an AI-driven platform, enhance Dash’s brand visibility, and foster direct feedback loops to improve Dash’s developer ecosystem.
 
It sounds useful but it seems like you're using third party services to do the transcription, which I can not approve of considering dash is supposedly trustless. However, if you said you was running your own LLMs...

We are long past the point where LLMs can be readily manipulated to omit, mislead or otherwise provide bias info.

As for the rest of it concerning the placement and promotion, I really don't care for that at all, that is a future event that can easily change and well beyond MNO / DCG control. You haven't even offered exclusivity.
 
GrandMasterDash said:
It sounds useful but it seems like you're using third party services to do the transcription, which I can not approve of considering dash is supposedly trustless. However, if you said you was running your own LLMs...
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This is incorrect, while the project does include many third party integrations it also has integrations for Ollama (which runs almost any open source model available in GGUF) and Whisper.cpp so the transcription and LLM processing can be done entirely with open source models on anyone's local machine (including those without GPUs).

GrandMasterDash said:
We are long past the point where LLMs can be readily manipulated to omit, mislead or otherwise provide bias info.
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This is very true and comes from the data the LLMs are trained on and the RLHF performed on the models after their initial training to coerce them into certain viewpoints and assumptions. Autoshow does not operate by querying the LLMs from their current knowledge base, it uses the LLMs to summarize data you give it which is generated by the video and audio files you want to feed it. This is more akin to methods of text summarizing and the model is significantly constrained in this manner.

It will not process a transcript and then write a summary where it makes up a bunch of stuff about what's in the transcript. It also can be used for tasks like identifying chapter topics and timestamps which doesn't involve outputting any AI text slop. You can judge the tool's outputs yourself, I've shared many on X. Dev Agrawal is a well known content creator in the web development space and member of the Solid.js core team.

After I did a stream with him and showed him the Autoshow summary of our conversation he responded:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1864124838496944241

GrandMasterDash said:
As for the rest of it concerning the placement and promotion, I really don't care for that at all, that is a future event that can easily change and well beyond MNO / DCG control. You haven't even offered exclusivity.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "exclusivity" here, if you're saying I should only accept Dash as payment for the app then that's simply a non-starter. If Dash wants to incentivize developers and entreprenurs to use Dash for building useful tools and products, they need to understand users are going to expect many ways to pay for software including crypto and non-crypto options. Dash can aim to be the most secure, efficient, fast, trustless, etc etc way to pay but the way it proves that is by providing a better option so people will have a reason to use it.
 
Right now it is available as an open source project that is feature complete and free to run.

The paid app is currently being developed and is slated to be released in April which is reflected in the development timeline:

ajcwebdev said:

Key Deliverables & Timeline​

Months 1–2 (March–April 2025)​

  • Dash Payment Flow Implementation
    • Develop and launch the “Pay with Dash” feature for credit purchases.
    • Integrate a Dash discount mechanism and ensure smooth user experience.
    • Update landing pages and dashboards to spotlight Dash as the default crypto payment.

Months 3–4 (May–June 2025)​

  • Dash-Themed Incentives & Tutorials
    • Offer free or bonus credits for content creators producing Dash-related audio/video.
    • Roll out user-friendly documentation and video tutorials on using Dash in Autoshow.
    • Mid-project update: share transaction stats, usage trends, and key insights.

Months 5–6 (July–August 2025)​

  • Optimization & Final Reporting
    • Refine payment flows based on feedback, ensuring maximum stability and ease of use.
    • Provide a comprehensive end-of-proposal report with user adoption metrics, ROI, and technical lessons learned.
    • Continue coordinating with Dash ecosystem teams to share insights, code, and recommended improvements.
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