Setting up social media accounts for a new company.

[BrianHG]

Hey everyone,

      Ok, so I have to now do it, though its not something I though I would ever do....

Yes, I need to setup an X, Facebook, LinkedIn (already done), Youtube accounts for my new business.

Nothing paid, just the basic bottom end as I'm trying to save every penny for now.

What other social media sites should I look at.  Note that I can only browse them on my Win7 PC with firefox.

Is there anything I should watch out for.  For this first year, I will just be dabbling in some company related posts just to get used to things.

[thephil]

My 2 cents: I guess the most important thing is to know who your target audience (= potential customers) is and where they hang out. Focus on those platforms and ignore the rest.

[BrianHG]

I’m launching a progress log to share updates on the development of my AI-DJ Workout Music Player app, set for release in 2028.

To engage those interested in workout music, I’ll also be releasing 3 classic fitness song titles from the '70s to 2010s every other day for the next 3 years.

This will be the just of it....

[Halcyon]

My 2 cents: I guess the most important thing is to know who your target audience (= potential customers) is and where they hang out. Focus on those platforms and ignore the rest.

This!

It makes me laugh when cybersecurity companies etc... set up accounts on TikTok. It's not a good look.

[BrianHG]

Yup, I'm staying away from TicTok.

Though, all the VCs I am pursuing are on LinkedIn with limited access and they are a bit more open and available on X.  I'm also setting up an account at Strava and looking into a few other fitness sites.

[SiliconWizard]

I’m launching a progress log to share updates on the development of my AI-DJ Workout Music Player app, set for release in 2028.

Really? That's an interesting direction.

[BrianHG]

I’m launching a progress log to share updates on the development of my AI-DJ Workout Music Player app, set for release in 2028.

Really? That's an interesting direction.

I lack followers and visibility.  Something VCs take into account when deciding whether to interact with inventors.  Funny how my patents and business plan these days is of secondary concern, even if the ROI warrants the investment.  Sure, they are not required to finalize the deal, but they want a show first...

It's funny, but here in Canada, the business plan is more important and VC set you up to be underfunded so they can steal your tech and sell it out from underneath you.

In the US, I can get the kind of funds required to engineer and train a new kind of AI engine, develop the app and market the product, but what the VC want first is how visible you are.  That is unless you are lucky enough to gain access to an industry insider who loves what you have and has connections and weight.  I'm pursuing this angle as well.

[BrianHG]

This is a brief overview of what I have patented:

•   Whether users are outdoors with GPS tracking or on an exercise machine, users of my real-time AI-DJ will never again need to worry about music ending at the wrong time effectively ruining an entire day’s workout.

•   Regardless of song selection, the AI-DJ guarantees that each song crescendos at the optimal moment as users hit key milestones in their workout, even if they swap songs mid-session or get randomly stopped at traffic lights.

•   Utilizing GPS data and biometric sensors, my technology also adjusts the music’s volume and EQ in real-time to enhance physical performance during key workout moments.

•   Additionally, my AI-DJ can seamlessly auto-sync and replace music in existing training videos (e.g., Peloton, YouTube workout videos) with user chosen tracks, all while maintaining the original trainer’s speech while controlling exercise machine settings (e.g., speed, incline, resistance).

The AI needs to be manually trained for each supported song.  This means the human training interface editor and AI compiler software needs to designed.  75k songs need to be trained for release with a maximum of 1 man hour maximum per song.  The software, company, staff, hardware, utilities as well as 2 more international patents to be filed go way beyond what I can raise here in Canada, or on any funding web-site.  But again, the ROI makes it worth it.

[tggzzz]

This is a brief overview of what I have patented:

•   Whether users are outdoors with GPS tracking or on an exercise machine, users of my real-time AI-DJ will never again need to worry about music ending at the wrong time effectively ruining an entire day’s workout.

•   Regardless of song selection, the AI-DJ guarantees that each song crescendos at the optimal moment as users hit key milestones in their workout, even if they swap songs mid-session or get randomly stopped at traffic lights.

•   Utilizing GPS data and biometric sensors, my technology also adjusts the music’s volume and EQ in real-time to enhance physical performance during key workout moments.

•   Additionally, my AI-DJ can seamlessly auto-sync and replace music in existing training videos (e.g., Peloton, YouTube workout videos) with user chosen tracks, all while maintaining the original trainer’s speech while controlling exercise machine settings (e.g., speed, incline, resistance).

The AI needs to be manually trained for each supported song.  This means the human training interface editor and AI compiler software needs to designed.  75k songs need to be trained for release with a maximum of 1 man hour maximum per song.  The software, company, staff, hardware, utilities as well as 2 more international patents to be filed go way beyond what I can raise here in Canada, or on any funding web-site.  But again, the ROI makes it worth it.

Well, now you have just given away the possibility of patenting any of those concepts - which would have been useful when a VC asked "what am I buying that other people can't  duplicate".

[BrianHG]

This is a brief overview of what I have patented:

•   Whether users are outdoors with GPS tracking or on an exercise machine, users of my real-time AI-DJ will never again need to worry about music ending at the wrong time effectively ruining an entire day’s workout.

•   Regardless of song selection, the AI-DJ guarantees that each song crescendos at the optimal moment as users hit key milestones in their workout, even if they swap songs mid-session or get randomly stopped at traffic lights.

•   Utilizing GPS data and biometric sensors, my technology also adjusts the music’s volume and EQ in real-time to enhance physical performance during key workout moments.

•   Additionally, my AI-DJ can seamlessly auto-sync and replace music in existing training videos (e.g., Peloton, YouTube workout videos) with user chosen tracks, all while maintaining the original trainer’s speech while controlling exercise machine settings (e.g., speed, incline, resistance).

The AI needs to be manually trained for each supported song.  This means the human training interface editor and AI compiler software needs to designed.  75k songs need to be trained for release with a maximum of 1 man hour maximum per song.  The software, company, staff, hardware, utilities as well as 2 more international patents to be filed go way beyond what I can raise here in Canada, or on any funding web-site.  But again, the ROI makes it worth it.

Well, now you have just given away the possibility of patenting any of those concepts - which would have been useful when a VC asked "what am I buying that other people can't  duplicate".

I been already granted 2 US foundational patents covering all the above concepts as a software application and as an online service.  (They are huge at 53 pages plus 60 pages...)
Improvements to my original patents which I will be filing withing a year have not been disclosed here.

[BrianHG]

Well, now you have just given away the possibility of patenting any of those concepts - which would have been useful when a VC asked "what am I buying that other people can't  duplicate".

Read em and weep:
1st Patent Link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9880805B1/
2nd Patent Link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11507337B2/

Don't worry, when it comes to my IP, I have professional help for filing and been given consultation on what I can and cannot say.
This one is too valuable to mess up.

[tggzzz]

This is a brief overview of what I have patented:

•   Whether users are outdoors with GPS tracking or on an exercise machine, users of my real-time AI-DJ will never again need to worry about music ending at the wrong time effectively ruining an entire day’s workout.

•   Regardless of song selection, the AI-DJ guarantees that each song crescendos at the optimal moment as users hit key milestones in their workout, even if they swap songs mid-session or get randomly stopped at traffic lights.

•   Utilizing GPS data and biometric sensors, my technology also adjusts the music’s volume and EQ in real-time to enhance physical performance during key workout moments.

•   Additionally, my AI-DJ can seamlessly auto-sync and replace music in existing training videos (e.g., Peloton, YouTube workout videos) with user chosen tracks, all while maintaining the original trainer’s speech while controlling exercise machine settings (e.g., speed, incline, resistance).

The AI needs to be manually trained for each supported song.  This means the human training interface editor and AI compiler software needs to designed.  75k songs need to be trained for release with a maximum of 1 man hour maximum per song.  The software, company, staff, hardware, utilities as well as 2 more international patents to be filed go way beyond what I can raise here in Canada, or on any funding web-site.  But again, the ROI makes it worth it.

Well, now you have just given away the possibility of patenting any of those concepts - which would have been useful when a VC asked "what am I buying that other people can't  duplicate".

I been already granted 2 US foundational patents covering all the above concepts as a software application and as an online service.  (They are huge at 53 pages plus 60 pages...)
Improvements to my original patents which I will be filing withing a year have not been disclosed here.

Excellent!

Good to see someone is ahead of me

[m98]

Sounds like it could be a good product, I would probably use something like that instead of just putting on a Spotify playlist. However, I think the technical complexity of what you have envisioned is way too high, you should try starting out with a bare-bone MVP, and get some users to show that there is a market.

[BrianHG]

Sounds like it could be a good product, I would probably use something like that instead of just putting on a Spotify playlist. However, I think the technical complexity of what you have envisioned is way too high, you should try starting out with a bare-bone MVP, and get some users to show that there is a market.

Thanks for the vote.
All my research has been done, documented and engineering tech docs are finished.  I also know where and how to gain my market.  The technical hurdles have also been solved.  I'm aiming for a big time AI startup and will have the funding to do this right.

[SiliconWizard]

Curious - you'd be using existing music? What about the licensing?

[Analog Kid]

Izzat really "AI"? Sounds more like a ginormous database with song lengths and musical profiles, and some processing software.

Unless your investors won't put a dime into your enterprise unless "AI".

Sheesh.

[BrianHG]

Curious - you'd be using existing music? What about the licensing?

So long as the user owns a legitimate copy of the music, I am allowed to make a .mp3 player which may start, stop, or seek/jump to multiple points during playback.

(Yes, I will be starting out as an overpriced, but worth it, smart .mp3 player with workout timers, BlueTooth/Ant+ exercise machine interface and GPS...  My 1 year 100% free trial will lock everyone in.)

If I wish to advance to streaming, then I will need sync license rights.  So when starting, before I grow, I can offer initially the standard music formats and links to the user's chosen online music store to purchase recommended songs.

As for the Youtube Workout video support, I will be offering to the Youtube creators a generous influencer sponsorship program which will gain them a cut of the subscription revenue for each paying subscriber they bring in for 6 years.  The original video may be on youtube, but my company will be streaming an add free version within my app as well to avoid Youtube getting angry.

[BrianHG]

Izzat really "AI"? Sounds more like a ginormous database with song lengths and musical profiles, and some processing software.

Unless your investors won't put a dime into your enterprise unless "AI".

Sheesh.

Yup, you hit the nail on the head.

But, when I sell it to investors: What do you call a player which will rearrange segments of the user chosen music so that the playback appears seamlessly perfect as if the song was produced that way, all while you jog outdoors watching your progress to a destination making adaptations to the playback in real-time so that final perfect sweet moment in the song co-inside with your arrival at your destination?

I would call that some sort of DJ-AI, or studio AI-editing custom extended/shortened cut dance versions of the songs, even though under the hood, it may not have an AI-neural-net engine doing the work.  (Yes, at our head end office, AI will be used for the song training to generate the 'database with song lengths and musical profiles', though there is bunch of more details than that.  The end result will be something like a 1kb compressed data file per song.)

Remember, I need my code to work on devices like bone-conducting headphones for swimmers which only have the processing power of the first IPods.  (bluetooth looses connections underwater while swimming)  Not everyone exercises with their full cell-phone at hand offering me that sweet processing power.

[ebastler]

So long as the user owns a legitimate copy of the music, I am allowed to make a .mp3 player which may start, stop, or seek/jump to multiple points during playback.

(Yes, I will be starting out as an overpriced, but worth it, smart .mp3 player with workout timers, BlueTooth/Ant+ exercise machine interface and GPS...  My 1 year 100% free trial will lock everyone in.)

If I wish to advance to streaming, then I will need sync license rights.  So when starting, before I grow, I can offer initially the standard music formats and links to the user's chosen online music store to purchase recommended songs.

I think you really need to support streaming from the get-go. Limiting yourself to a target audience which maintains their own MP3 collection would be painful. (Although you'd be in the right place on Facebook, I guess.  )

Aren't there ways to e.g. remote-control the standard Spotify client, so you don't need to negotiate licensing deals but users can just continue to use their existing subscription?

[BrianHG]

So long as the user owns a legitimate copy of the music, I am allowed to make a .mp3 player which may start, stop, or seek/jump to multiple points during playback.

(Yes, I will be starting out as an overpriced, but worth it, smart .mp3 player with workout timers, BlueTooth/Ant+ exercise machine interface and GPS...  My 1 year 100% free trial will lock everyone in.)

If I wish to advance to streaming, then I will need sync license rights.  So when starting, before I grow, I can offer initially the standard music formats and links to the user's chosen online music store to purchase recommended songs.

I think you really need to support streaming from the get-go. Limiting yourself to a target audience which maintains their own MP3 collection would be painful. (Although you'd be in the right place on Facebook, I guess.  )

Aren't there ways to e.g. remote-control the standard Spotify client, so you don't need to negotiate licensing deals but users can just continue to use their existing subscription?

Basically until I can do licensing myself, I would be auto-interfacing / link into Spotify, Apple Music's iTunes (it's still hidden, but it is there...), Amazon Music and acting like a front end mimicking a streaming experience.  Typically for workouts, we only go through something like 50 unique songs/year at most except for those who want total random music.

Power workout hint:  For your critical final 1 or 2 big burns, always use your absolute favorite song until you burn out that song.  Then choose a new favorite.  I've had around 8 such songs in use in total for the past 5 years, something like 1 new peak song every 6-12 months.

[BrianHG]

(Although you'd be in the right place on Facebook, I guess.  )

Yup, that's another target of mine.

I just finished compiling a fitness music playlist from my library which is exclusive original 1970s through 2010s for those who want nostalgic songs they can exercise to instead of modern club dance mixes.

I figure on X and Facebook, I will release 3 songs every other day, 1 good for warmup/first burn, one for mid burns, and 1 extra high power song for that final power burn.  I have enough music to run my workout music playlist stream for 2 years without repeats.

It is a strategy to try to get followers and thumbs up on a regular flow basis.  I just need to fine-tune the presentation and I'll probably use youtube-music links as they will play the full song for anyone whether you are logged in or not, though an add will come every other song.

[SiliconWizard]

So long as the user owns a legitimate copy of the music, I am allowed to make a .mp3 player which may start, stop, or seek/jump to multiple points during playback.

(Yes, I will be starting out as an overpriced, but worth it, smart .mp3 player with workout timers, BlueTooth/Ant+ exercise machine interface and GPS...  My 1 year 100% free trial will lock everyone in.)

If I wish to advance to streaming, then I will need sync license rights.  So when starting, before I grow, I can offer initially the standard music formats and links to the user's chosen online music store to purchase recommended songs.

I think you really need to support streaming from the get-go. Limiting yourself to a target audience which maintains their own MP3 collection would be painful. (Although you'd be in the right place on Facebook, I guess.  )

Aren't there ways to e.g. remote-control the standard Spotify client, so you don't need to negotiate licensing deals but users can just continue to use their existing subscription?

Basically until I can do licensing myself, I would be auto-interfacing / link into Spotify, Apple Music's iTunes (it's still hidden, but it is there...), Amazon Music and acting like a front end mimicking a streaming experience.

That's probably the most reasonable approach to begin with. It offloads the burden of streaming and licensing (which, even if you do it "right", may always give you a lot of troubles unless you have a solid legal team) and lends itself to partnerships with the streaming platforms.

[BrianHG]

unless you have a solid legal team) and lends itself to partnerships with the streaming platforms.

I also found more than 1 example precedence cases in US court.  One example with regard to a DVD player which real-time edits mature content movies for family viewing by skipping adult scenes or muting audio at times, all controlled via a downloadable script.  Multiple Hollywood rights holders including the MPA all lost in court against the company ClearPlay and they remain in business to this day and now have obtained rights to online stream edited versions of Hollywood movies.

I am following the same path with the one addition of being able to also repeat portions of the user's music.  So long as I do not re-broadcast the music, i.e. personal end user use, and I do not steal potential revenue from the music rights holders, I'll be in the clear.  And the budget I'm targeting will cover proper legal support.

[BrianHG]

WTF?  Facebook banned me.

I kid you not, all I did was sign-up 2 days ago.
Then, today, I decided to find a few people to follow.  I chosen one a youtube channel I follow, 'VitruvianPhysique'.  I go to his facebook page and select 'follow' and click 'like'.

10 seconds later, Facebook froze my account accusing me of not following their guidelines?
See attached clip after I had to send them a video of me posing for my crummy laptop camera.

Maybe in 2 days they might unlock my account.
Why can't I and technology get along?

Seriously...  Even LinkedIn will not give me a verification badge because their cheap app cannot be installed on my cell phone.  (It says it cannot install, not compatible.  I have an old Samsung Galaxy Prime)  And they want money from me, but still wont verify me?

If you dont buy the latest, you are left out of this society...

[Analog Kid]

10 seconds later, Facebook froze my account accusing me of not following their guidelines?

Did they say which guidelines you violated?

My answer, always, is "Fuck Facebook!", but that doesn't help if you want to use it for commercial purposes ...