I agree with the main thesis “sell the service instead of the model access” , but just wanted to point out that the Upworks page you link to says:
GoodFirms places a basic app between $40,000 to $60,000, a medium complexity app between $61,000 to $69,000, and a feature-rich app between $70,000 to $100,000.
Which is significantly lower than the $100-200k you quote for a simple app.
Personally I think even $40k sounds way to expensive for a what I consider a basic app.
On another note, I think your suggestion of building products and selling to many clients is far better than developing something for a single client. Compare developing one app for 40k and sell to one company, with developing one product that you can sell for 40k to a large number of companies.
Added footnote clarifying link (goodfirms seems misquoted and also kind of looks fake?)
I mentioned the software development firm as an intermediate step to products because it’s less risky / easier than making a successful product. Even easier would just be to hire devs, give them your model, put them on upwork, and split the profits.
I suppose the ideal commercialization plan depends on how the model works and the size of the firm commercializing it. (And for govts and universities “commercialization” is completely different.)
I agree it might be easier to start as a software development company, and then you might develop something for a client that you can replicate and sell to other.
Just anecdotal evidence, I use ChatGPT when I code, the speedup in my case is very modest (less than 10%), but I expect future models to be more useful for coding.
I agree with the main thesis “sell the service instead of the model access” , but just wanted to point out that the Upworks page you link to says:
Which is significantly lower than the $100-200k you quote for a simple app.
Personally I think even $40k sounds way to expensive for a what I consider a basic app.
On another note, I think your suggestion of building products and selling to many clients is far better than developing something for a single client. Compare developing one app for 40k and sell to one company, with developing one product that you can sell for 40k to a large number of companies.
Added footnote clarifying link (goodfirms seems misquoted and also kind of looks fake?)
I mentioned the software development firm as an intermediate step to products because it’s less risky / easier than making a successful product. Even easier would just be to hire devs, give them your model, put them on upwork, and split the profits.
I suppose the ideal commercialization plan depends on how the model works and the size of the firm commercializing it. (And for govts and universities “commercialization” is completely different.)
Thanks for the clarifications, that makes sense.
I agree it might be easier to start as a software development company, and then you might develop something for a client that you can replicate and sell to other.
Just anecdotal evidence, I use ChatGPT when I code, the speedup in my case is very modest (less than 10%), but I expect future models to be more useful for coding.