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by Evan-Almloff 1070 days ago
Currently, I'm hoping to find more developers who are interested in contributing to the project (specifically building plugins).

Once Floneum is more complete, the target users are any non-develper professionals with repetitive tasks. It should serve to automate tasks that are difficult to monetize either because the task itself is too specific to you (like cross refrencing your Google calendar with any events discussed on your corporate slack channel to see if they conflict or watching for any new novels that are about magical worlds by authors that have a terse writing style) or tasks that are too small to pay for by themselves (for example searching a schools class listing and finding the teachers that fit best with a specific students needs). The first example would also benefit from the fact that Floneum runs models entirely locally. (You wouldn't want to send your corporate chat to Open AI)

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What are examples of automation tasks that non developers need to do?
There are a bunch of tasks that require some minimal level of language processing/reasoning that people do that are repetitive. I mentioned a few in my previous response:

- Cross referencing your Google calendar with any events discussed on your corporate slack channel to see if they conflict - Watching for any new novels that are about magical worlds by authors that have a terse writing style - Finding classes with teachers that fit best with a specific students needs

Each of these would be difficult to monetize, which is why Floneum is targeted at consumers directly with sharable workflows.