Idea Maker AI

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What is Idea Maker AI?

Idea Maker AI is a mobile app in two halves. The first is a conversation with the AI model of your choosing — typed or spoken out loud. The second is a marketplace where the prompts you write, and the things those prompts produce, can be published, priced and sold.

Most AI apps stop at the first half. You ask, it answers, and whatever you made stays in a chat log nobody else will ever see. That made sense when generating something took real effort. It does not any more — and the interesting question stopped being can you make this and became who wants it.

What does Idea Maker AI actually do?

It puts the models in one place and then gets out of the way. You pick which model answers — the ones that write, and the ones that draw, animate, and design. You can type to it, or press the call button and talk. You can hand a question to a research assistant that searches the web dozens of times and cites every source it used. You can download a model onto the handset and use it with the aeroplane mode switch on.

Everything a model makes for you lands in one gallery, rather than being buried in the conversation that produced it.

Which AI models can you use?

All of the major ones, swapped mid-conversation without losing the thread. You are not committing to a vendor when you open the app; you are choosing per question, the way you would choose a tool.

What you wantWhat answersHow long it takes
A written answerAny frontier text model, your pickSeconds
A spoken conversationA live voice model, 24 voicesAbout a third of a second to reply
A picture or a videoThe current image and video modelsSeconds to a few minutes
A part you can printA model that outputs real geometryUnder a minute, STL in the chat
A researched answerA research agent, every source listedMinutes, not seconds

When making the thing is nearly free, the scarce part is knowing what is worth making.

What is the marketplace for?

For the half of the work that has never had anywhere to go. A prompt that reliably produces something good is a real piece of craft, and until now the only thing you could do with it was paste it into a thread and watch it scroll away.

  • Sell the instructions. Publish a prompt, price it, and let people buy a few runs of it or buy it outright to keep.
  • Sell the output. A picture, a video, a printable model — the thing itself, not the recipe.
  • Sell something you post. Not everything is a file. List a real object you make and ship, and the app works out the postage from its size and weight.
  • Get paid properly. Sales settle into your account and you withdraw them to a bank. Setting that up is a one-time thing.

The feed that surfaces all of this is weighted toward people you follow and things you have been looking at, with work nobody has seen yet mixed in — read more about how that works on the blog index, or look at the marketplace section of the site.

What does it cost?

Credits pay for the AI. Every message to a model, and every picture and video, comes out of a credit balance. Top it up a pack at a time, or take a monthly plan instead.

When the balance runs out the AI stops until you fill it. Nothing bills you by surprise, and there is no usage bill arriving at the end of the month.

Payments run through Stripe, and the models come from the providers you would expect — Anthropic among them. The Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy that will apply are already published, so you can read both before anyone asks you for an account.

When can I get it?

Not yet. Idea Maker AI is built and running on iPhone and Android and is being tested privately with a small group. It is not on the App Store or Google Play, and there is no download on this site. If you want to know the day it opens, email us — we use that address for that message and nothing else.

Idea Maker AI is in private testing on iPhone and Android. Everything described here is a screen in the app today.

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