Some Web 3.0 Business Ideas to Chat About

A little while back, I mentioned how I kinda lost faith in Web 3.0. But since then, I went through my ideas notebook and tried to tie some of them to Web 3.0. Sure, some of these concepts might have been done before, but hey, these are my thoughts! Before we dive in If any of these ideas spark your interest and you wanna team up as a co-founder, just hit me up in DMs. I'm on this site pretty much every day, so I can take a moment to respond to messages too! A bit about me I know I’ve introduced myself previously, but just to recap, I turned 30 this May and I've been coding in various languages since I was 12. When I was 15, I developed my first app and sold it to a local real estate agency (it was basically a sales management system built in Delphi with Access for the database!). Anyway, back in March of 2023, I launched Mann-E, which is an AI image generation platform. Right from the get-go, there have been suggestions to make it a Web 3.0 company, but I’ve struggled to find a solid way to link my business with Web 3. Here, I’ve got a bunch of fresh startup ideas that I think could mesh well with Web 3.0, and I’m really looking for your feedback on them. Let’s jump into the ideas! Idea 1: Generative Metaverse During my AI exploration, I stumbled on some models that can turn text or image prompts into 3D files (mostly GLB files). So, imagine a place where people...

I posted exact same thing on r/web3 as well. It was a little surprising for me how that Generate to Earn concept became popular and after that, the voting system was something people really liked. What are your opinions?

Some people on reddit pointed DePINs, so I also found this (actually one of my colleagues did). https://golem.network Seems really promising. I really can be excited to know your opinions about it.

Generative metaverse is something I have assumed for maybe entire decades, it is why I never worried about graphics and music for games; I always figured one day AI would be able like Star Trek holodecks to illustrate and sound-track text on the fly, not only able to turn any existing novel into a movie with the viewer's own preferences of which director's styles to use or which artist's or sculptor's style to use for people and places and things and what any monster whose appearance they have preferences about looks like and so on and so on and so on. Hence my tendency to aim at text mode server leaving any illustrating or sound-effects or mood-music or background-music etc to the user's client based on the user's own preferences... Play to earn of course also being part of the gestalt... -MarkM-

I'm glad that the idea of generative metaverse was a matter of your interest as well. It really can be a very nice workflow to generate 3D assets and use them to build on top of decentraland or any other similar existing metaverse!

This one is interesting. Does anything like this exist already? This is a good idea, and given your background it seems like one that you could pursue. Why not bootstrap over making it a token? You can make it a token though you might be discouraged if people do not pay any attention to it before an MVP, or without marketing (which commonly damages tokenomics of even the best of projects when trying to get marketing teams on board). Decentralizing gambling is long overdue. A lot of crypto gambling platforms are still centralized and causes massive issues on this forum (because it's harder to create a decentralized bitcoin game with a user experience as good as a centralized platform). This is a good idea, if the focus is decentralization. DAOs already do this. More recent and evolved ones have eliminated a lot of the attack vectors as well. DAOs are progressing how entities are governed. These kinds of websites exist, like BitRefill. With RWA (Real-world asset) Tokenization as well, other assets will be available to trade with Bitcoin and crypto in the near future too. Not a bad idea to have transactions on-chain...though probably not good to put the images/content of the people making life mistakes (my opinion) by using that platform to begin with.

3D generation AI exists in both open source and closed source worlds and ironically, my team worked on one (soon to be open sourced) as well. The point is, it is only a generative tool and nothing more. It can be a much better tool if people can use those assets in some sort of game or virtual world. This is what I spent the most time on. People visiting Mann-E and our paid models, are begging for free credits. Generating using a free model (to give us the data enough for the knowledge distillation on top of GPT Image or Midjourney) can result in being rewarded. And this is the exact same thing those tap to earn games did. I happened to have a talk with a developer from an Iranian CEX who worked on a similar game and they said they haven't developed/minted the token since they hit a certain threshold on user's activity. This can be a good plan, and even a new way of verification of the user's activity. We have a platform. The user logs in, generates images and gets rewarded for each image. The reward (aside from in-site credits) can be used to calculate the amount of tokens they win on the air drop. And since this can grab a lot of attention, investors may be interested as well. This whole process needs another topic where we can discuss Generate to Earn and Proof of Generation as well. Based on what I've heard about bet platforms from my friends, reddit and messages on this forum, I guess I leave this one behind. Maybe someone else has the audacity to do that. I am familiar with DAO's, but I couldn't understand how a DAO is formed and how people can join it. I saw a youtube video where the person was explaining it is as easy as creating an NFT and just give special permissions to holders of that particular NFT on Discord or Telegram. And interestingly I found TON Vote while doing research on the topic of decentralized voting systems on TON ecosystem. But still, I don't really have any knowledge on how DAO's work, how to start one or something like that. I personally encountered CoinGate and Lasso Finance and both are on ETH ecosystem. They really grabbed my attention, because they made buying Apple gift cards easy for me, they made it easy to charge my fal AI subscription and even get OpenAI premium subscription. Basically this can be a tool of freedom. Anyway, a new idea sparked in my head, and I have to talk to a friend before just explaining it here  Jokes aside, I'm in the process of making it a well-crafted idea with the help of someone who has the legal knowledge for that kind of business. Well, the only point a crypto based OF has is that it keeps the bank history of two parties (the creator and the consumer) clean of any controversial transaction history.

If you guys have any ideas other than these, I'd be happy to hear about it.

I guess it was about two weeks I was away from the keyboard, so I am here. Let's discuss!

I did a lot of research in my AFK time, I somehow had to completely give up on web 3.0 for now. But I hope the ideas help someone at least.