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Local LLMs sound so cool but I know they won't be easy to setup or use for common joe like me.

- You're right about the confidence coming from investor expectations than actual enforcement experience. Startups avoid falling into patent litigation cycles as at early stages their primary goal is survival and gather funding. Health-tech requires heavy funding similar to industries like energy, or pharma. Having a patent secured innovation gives a positive signals to both potential partners and investors - that this startup has invented something new, and that their innovation is protected from being infringed. Whether a startup will actually enforce the patent in future highly depends on specific situation of their market. I have seen many startups (specifically the ones working on drug development platforms) more open to license their technology. Patents make that a little easy as it is a well known industry practice.

- It's mostly attorney driven as most founders who are working on their first or second ventures are not familiar with patent laws that well (unless they come from that background). This strategy is also only applicable in specific scenarios where it makes sense to keep the innovation hidden from competition (where you have lots of competing companies or where your work is catching lots of media attention).

- I haven't specifically seen this being discussed or got a chance to talk about it with a founder but I can share my experience here. AI/software patents are still surviving and only obvious patents are facing difficulties. You might have heard about Zoom vs Apollo dispute recently where court dismissed Apollo's motion against Zoom patents being invalid under Alice (My team is working on a story on that case separately). The patent has explained the inventiveness of the innovation being covered in a way that it is not abstract and actually showcase the improvement over prior art. If an innovation's inventiveness and improvement can be described in a non-obvious way (avoiding 'intelligent parser' and writing '0-5 point scoring system based on 5 parameters'), the patents can work.

Final thought about the last point: A patent's worth and cost is directly proportional to how important that innovation is for the industry (not for the startup patenting it). If a solution has multi-industry applications, it is not an incremental innovation but actually goes beyond SOTA, then a startup should opt for multi step protection, not just patent. Copyright the code, maintain trade secrets wherever possible, and patent the processes (if they solve the technical problems).

Feel free to share more questions or contact me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/b2b-marketer/

Another strategy that I have seen experienced founder following is keeping their patent under examination for longer. They either respond late to the examiner's questions, purposefully opt for GAUs (Group art units. Different GAU reviews different tech patents) where the prosecution timeline is slower. This gives them extra time to keep their innovations hidden while still protected, until they are ready to enter market with viable products.

For AI based, software patents are a tricky game with many getting rejected under Alice 101 rejections. The drafting and prosecution methods also change a lot when dealing with software patents about AI.

I can share more in-detail if you have any specific question.

Context: I am not a founder but I work in a Patent and technology consultation company and we regularly help with prior art searching, patent monetization, and large scale patent analysis on industry.

I have talked to about 200 early stage founders last year through conferences or in-person interviews and talked specifically about this topic.

How do we connect?

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I tried my hands on a few things and would like to ask / share feedback:

- Not sure if you're already on it or planning to, but target design/marketing agencies for it first. I know a few and they always have a chaos in their designing apps because they have to tell their team which brand they are designing a particular graphic for, and then find those specific templates, etc. Design process with your app starts from the brand which solves that problem.

- I currently work in a technology consulting firm and we regularly need to make multi-page reports, social media posts in carousal formats, or a series of graphics on the same topic. I noticed that currently your app doesn't support multi-page reports. I tested an A4 size, and did not see an option for social media post to generate more pages. That will be super helpful if you end up targeting individual brands for it later. Not having this could be a deal breaker.

- The design editor is really buggy at the moment. Totally understandable noting that you're at very early stages. But providing and option to "edit" AI designs and then a user really struggling to edit is counter productive. It did what MS word does to design when you try to resize and image and the element actually goes missing. I wasn't able to freely move elements on the page, or when I tried to resize an overlay element, it teleported to another dimension.

Overall, really great initiative and refreshing app. For generic usage like a single page social media post, a poster, or a featured image, this works amazingly well.

Widgets are and always were a gimmick. User behavior won't change without a strong need. I don't think anybody need any widget. Nobody will miss them if they are gone.

My content is not mindless however, it is highly specific to R&D folks, coming from annual reports, sustainability filings, and a company's public announcements. It is something not easily found outside but AI is helping me publish things on Scale.

The point is, AI or not AI doesn't really matter if your content fulfils a need, a purpose of your target audience. Google doesn't mind if it brings new value to the table.

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Me and my co-founder has built a platform - SqlSafekeep ( https://sqlsafekeep.com) which is a row-level database data monitoring tool (not traditional database activity monitoring (DAM))

SqlSafeKeep captures every transaction row-by-row as it happens inside any SQL Server, then raises those changes into a cloud dashboard that anyone from a developer to a compliance officer can search in seconds.

It captures every single row-level change (UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE) and writes it to an immutable, off-host log in real-time. Think of it as a perfect, unbreakable data lineage for every transaction. It's designed to answer questions like:

* "Who changed the price on this product row at 9 PM on Sunday?"

* "What was the exact state of this customer record before the production bug corrupted it?"

* "Our senior DBA just left; what kind of critical changes was she making that we need to know about?"|

It's zero-code to set up and has a simple UI (we call it the Lighthouse) so that you can give your compliance folks or even devs a way to get answers without having to give them direct DB access.

The Ask: We Need Your Brutal Honesty

We need your unfiltered feedback to help us shape the roadmap. Tell us what's genius, what's garbage, what's missing, and how it would (or wouldn't) fit into your real-world workflow.

If you feel you have more to share, I am also looking to find design partners. I would like to offer you a free, unlimited access to the platform.

The Origin Story:

My co-founder was a DBA and architect for military contractors for over 15 years. He ran into a situation where a critical piece of data was changed in a production SQL Server database, and by the time anyone noticed, the logs had rolled, and the nightly backups were useless. There was no way to definitively prove who changed what, when, or what the original value was. It was a nightmare of forensics and finger-pointing.

He figured there had to be a better way than relying on complex log parsing or enterprise DAMs that cost a fortune and take months to deploy.

In case if you have more questions or want to talk in person, let me know in comments.

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Just added layer of AI chat to negotiate to engage the users and give a sense of power over the price while there's already a cap at how low the AI can go.

- Manage your activity on Gemini : https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

- This page has most answers related to Google Workspace and opting out of different Google apps : https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104#:~:text=Turn...

- Manage your activity on Gemini - https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

- This page has most answers related to Google Workspace and opting out of different Google apps - https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104#:~:text=Turn...

I could not find a direct link to Google account settings to control these. If someone else has any other helpful links to better control these settings, please share.

I believe that capturing your ideas, presentations, and tutorials using a screen recorder should be accessible to everyone on the internet!

This should be as free as the air we breathe. Checkout the app here - <https://gan.ai/videorecorder>

Major features available in Gan.AI app are - * Record 30 minute long videos completely free (Loom only allows 5 minutes) * Unlimited recordings and transcription (Current tools cap it at 25) * Free customizable landing page with each video (Add your brand logo, colors, links) * A simple editing interface to trim and crop * AI based subtitle generation * Option to add background music / sounds * Access individual-level video analytics

This is a part of my bigger project but mainly I wanted to make screen / video recording free and available for everyone. Future features that I plan to work on:

* Record longer than 30 minutes video * AI based video editing (removing hmm.. , filler words automatically) * AI based video trimming and stitching as well * Reel / Youtube Short styled subtitles

Open to hear more suggestions and any feedback from the HN community. We also launched on ProductHunt today, so if you like the initiative, please upvote here - <https://www.producthunt.com/posts/studio-by-gan-ai-recorder>

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