January 5, 2022
An online sound generator series concept for odd, uncomfortable, and perhaps provocative scenarios. Designed to generate media/social attention, scalable profit model, and most certainly produce scarring mental imagery. (Your welcome AMHCA.)
Invention idea #03147.1 pulled from my notebooks to share.
Build it for fun & profit.
Explore the interactive blueprint.
Click/Touch & drag to pan, Scroll wheel/pinch to zoom.
Some products purchased through links may earn me a small commission to help fund further inventing to share with you. Thank you for your support.
Overview of the concept:
As I mentioned in the commentary, the Chili Feed idea is really just a starting point for what can be all sorts of spin-off scenarios. Sound generators are not new, but generators for more "colorful" topics are. Here are a couple to review:
Many simulators can be spawned across different subjects. That is, subjects (in my mind) are collections of sound effects for a niche. The collection could be a thing like animal noises or a situation like a party. I visualize the background environment track collection could be the same across all simulators, only the subject collection changes to let users focus on a niche. The "mash-ups" people create would be interesting and fun.
DESIGN:
- I'd try to keep the generator as random as possible when dealing with sound placement and timing, but add controls for the randomness (EG: seed, amplitude, selection curve, etc). This makes every generation of the track unique with unexpected results.
- Using a collections of sounds in a category to randomly pull from would also add additional variance.
- Sadly, I did not find a good open source code library to get you started. I mostly found tone generators. If anyone knows of any, or wants to take a dive to find some code treasures please let me know.
MARKETING:
- I like the sharing model Giphy uses. Helps organically propagate the site content.
- I'd consider subscriptions being simple and cheap as dirt (though lately dirt seems pricey...I digress). Consider 1 years access for $5-12. Paypal or even something like BAT (Basic Attention Tokens).
- If you like the video clip idea I mentioned, take a look at the Shia Labeouf Just Do It meme/campaign, etc. It was brilliant and generated 1000's of mashups of his green screen original. (I think it was a collage project of some sort...not sure). Same thing could be done with a clip that people swap in their own audio tracks made by the generator. Ideally it would be edited on the site/app to avoid people mixing their own sounds off-site.
