Kevin Rose

These are the crazy ideas that we had.

Or some of it is even richer now that we can bolt on AI and make it cooler and different in some unique way.

So there are a lot of things that I feel will see the light of day again, but slightly modified because the cost to do so is next to nothing, which is great.

So what wasn't possible back then was real-time video compression in the browser.

And the reason I say that is the prototype I built 12 years ago

the issue would have been that you uploaded raw video to the site and then you blurred it after the fact, which meant a user could go trim away the CSS and actually see that person in a very awkward kind of position or whatever, and maybe an environment where they were looking for a little bit of blur privacy.

And so now this is all done in real time.

So what you're seeing now is that it's actually recording me.

It's like, hello world, this...

is a test.

And then I can just kind of move my arms around like this a little bit, get a little movement, and please, this is the V.01 alpha of this whole thing.

And then hit submit, and it's doing some horrible broken math here.

But you see that's actually me in the background, and that's not me now.

That is the blurred version of me

And it's a horrible interface.

I would never release this interface.

But see, that was me when I was waving my hands a second ago.

But I could do all of the compression now on client side so that I do preserve privacy and put this up in the background.

And so you can imagine these little slivers and this little visibility into people's world as they're kind of blogging.

And in my head, I'm like, okay, well, maybe this should just be my blog and I'll release this and I'll just open source it and give it away.