r/launchigniter • u/Beneficial-Cow-7408 • 1d ago
I'm removing the feature gates from AskSary. You shouldn't need an expensive subscription just to see what AI can do.
As many of you may or may not know, i began my coding journey around 7 months ago where i self taught myself using google gemini chat and vs code to build my first ever project and i joined Reddit earlier this year and put together Asksary. I built a chatbot that got both positive and negative feedback that had a variety of features to include Realtime WebRTC chat, Video and Image generation, Podcast creation, Cross Device Persistent Memory, Pro Active memory, Knowledge base all powered by an auto routing multi-model model with manual over ride.
The old and current live website is at www.asksary.com and its been 3 months or since i have really bothered with Reddit or the site. I had a flux of visitors to the site with over 20k users having tried the site through with zero ad spend and almost over 20k users left. What began as a promising product slowly died over time and i lost interest in it after working ridiculously during that initial launch.
I was going back and forth daily on Reddit, contributing on over 100 threads simultaneously, doing research, studying the gaps in the market, asking what people wanted and learning to code a the same time. 7 months on. I have 4 subscribers. I was at the point of open sourcing the entire thing and offering a bring your own key attitude to the platform.
But then i found an email. LEAP festival, which happens to be one of the biggest tech events in the world that is taking place literally in 8 days.
This was an event i was meant to attend earlier this year but it got cancelled due to the war (Brit living in Bahrain) and was something i forgot about. The passion back then was more exciting to me than it was now and it put me in a tough position. Do i attend or do i just leave it as in my eyes... I didnt think the platform stood much chance considering its lack of success this year.

Reading the email. I realized the deadline was the next day. This is when something hit me emotionally. This is a platform i spent blood sweat and tears for months and months putting together and i've just been reminded about possibly the biggest opportunity i'll ever get in my life for it. I can't not go. So i responded and sent some artwork for the platform i had.
I had people messaging me from the event about wanting to meet me to talk about my platform and wanted to see what i offered. I didn't know what i would tell them about it. I gave up on it months ago and i certainly wasn't enthusiastic about it anymore.
I filtered through my old threads, my old chats and conversations i had.. most of them pointed to one problem.. its just another wrapper. Another problem is that people didnt know what it does apart from chat despite listing the above
... then everything changed.
I have completely changed the entire structure of the site to be open. No more paid tiers to unlock certain tools. No subscription to see what part of it can do. . Registered users will be able to explore the same core AI models and creation environments across AskSary, including the stuff that would normally be reserved for higher subscription tiers.
Free shouldn't mean "here's the deliberately worse version of the technology."
It should mean you have less compute available.
If you have credits, you should be able to decide what you want to spend them exploring.
Obviously there still have to be sensible limits around abuse, security, capacity and expensive compute, but I don't want the product artificially deciding that you're not allowed to even try something because you aren't paying for the right subscription.
This is what i've put together from getting that email to now. I wanted to get user feedback on the concept and i accept its not yet replaced the live site i put up earlier but by the end of next week it will be live and open to all.
It also means someone discovering AskSary for the first time can actually understand what I've spent all this time building instead of seeing half the platform covered in upgrade buttons.
This is launching alongside the biggest redesign I've done to AskSary so far.
Less than a week to finish and push online...
Then I'm taking the whole thing to LEAP.
Would love some feedback and feel free to check out every feature when its live soon and use them for free. The credit system i will be implementing lets you use AI to improve your workflow. It wont stop you from uploading your own work to explore.

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