Hotpot AI

Description

Hotpot helps people create with AI and easy-to-use software.

Professional graphics, pictures, and text are inaccessible to many people, especially those in developing nations. We can change this with smarter software. Our mission is to make graphic design, image editing, and media creation 10x faster and more affordable.

For professional designers, our goal is to spark creativity and automate drudgery. For non-designers, the goal is to make image editing, graphic design, and professional writing as simple as texting a friend.

Our product philosophy is straightforward: software should be like Frappuccinos. You could buy the equipment and ingredients then spend five minutes every day mixing the perfect Frappuccino for 10% of what you pay Starbucks.

But you don’t. Instead, you happily plop down $5 and walk out the door with a smile on your face and a Frappuccino in hand. Because the convenience is worth $5.

The process is frictionless. (Pardon the VC-speak.) Order. Pay. Leave. You can create a Starbucks account; you can pay anonymously; or you could pay as Spiderman if you’re so inclined.

Software isn’t like this. For security and business model reasons, most SaaS and software providers require accounts and often monthly charges. Even if you only intend to use them once or twice per year. They want a relationship when all you want is a Frappuccino. (You heartless commitment-phobe! Get help.) Even worse, some companies charge the equivalent of $100 for a single Frappuccino.

If you’re a VC and reaching for an inhaler because this post doesn’t contain enough buzzwords, fear not: software-as-a-transaction (SaaT) is the model we’re proposing. As opposed to the software-as-a-sucker (SaaS) model in fashion today. Didn’t know SaaS stands for software-as-a-sucker? You’re welcome. This term was coined at the dawn of the SaaS boom by the prestigious research firm, Albee Esse Research Institute.

We may need to require subscriptions someday, but we will do our best to dodge and avoid that day the same way this guy hilariously dodges and avoids Ann Coulter in the shopping mall. For as long as possible, we will endeavor (free vocabulary apps FTW!) to let you collaborate with others, edit designs, and check out without requiring an account. In short, we will endeavor (couldn’t afford premium version) to put users first and investors second. Unless you’re an investor (who isn’t today), in which case, our strategy is to prioritize investors first and users second in FILO order.