There was an equity crowdfunding round for Replit in early 2022. I threw some money in for the hell of it since I liked what they were doing back when I was doing some volunteer teaching many years ago. They have since rode the vibe coding wave and have grown like crazy. Usually I consider crowdfunding to be a donation, but by dumb luck I think it's a 6x so far.
Later I did some consulting with a financial firm to implement the various RAG + vector database + function calling + chat with their workflows. It became pretty clear that whatever I was doing would soon be built-in to OpenAI / Anthropic's products, so it started feeling like a waste of time to keep building this stuff.
Probably because this looks more like a Deep Research agent "delving" into the infrastructure -- with a giant list of sources at the end. The Archive is not just a library; it is a service provider.
Oh, it's you! One of my favorite channels on YouTube. Learnt Alpaca and TA-Liband backtesting from you and also built my screener with your vids. Awesome content always. I am looking to go through the IB ones soon.
This is a huge success!!! Im also in this field, never thought that you could collect so many people on this niche topic!
If you say: some affiliates - think about getting a sponsoring partner for some B2B stuff, and speak the advertorial by yourself(!), one slot per one video/show.
In my country we have a small but good&nerdy startup podcast run by two guys - they do advertising this way, mainly B2B tech stuff (accounting software etc.) - in an interview recently, they unveiled their numbers - per slot (20-25 seconds) they get 8k - 10k. And they have a couple of slots per month.
Later I did some consulting with a financial firm to implement the various RAG + vector database + function calling + chat with their workflows. It became pretty clear that whatever I was doing would soon be built-in to OpenAI / Anthropic's products, so it started feeling like a waste of time to keep building this stuff.