What is the countdown for the missions?
I interviewed Tom Shapland, product manager at LiveKit, for the Agents at Work podcast.We talked about how LiveKit’s open-source infrastructure became the audio transport layer for ChatGPT’s voice mode, and what it takes to build reliable, production-grade voice agents.Topics include: – Voice vs. text pipelines (cascade vs audio-in/out) – Turn detection and latency problems – Ambient computing...
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I think the paying approach is superior (after all you make money out of people using your service) but Cloudflare is a straight forward/simpler one.
"Hey, we'd happily give these companies clean data if they just paid us instead of building these scrapers."
I think there is a psychological aspect that made micropayments never work for humans but machines may be better suited for it.
It seems like a good fit for micropayments. They never took off with people but machines may be better suited for them.
L402 can help here.
I keep seeing people claiming that SaaS is dead, they are wrong. In fact, SaaS isn’t dying, it’s evolving. The users are changing though. AI agents are becoming a new kind of user, and SaaS volumes will skyrocket because of it.As LLMs improve, AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of reasoning and executing complex tasks. While agents might be brilliant at reasoning, they can’t currently...
One of the biggest blockers for AI agents is the inability to pay for services programmatically.We build an end-to-end demo for AI agents showing how to solve that. It has two components:- A simple API that provides stock price information, paywalled with the L402 protocol- An AI Agent that autonomously pay for and consume the API, performing complex tasks like comparing stock pricesIn just a...
> Consumers also want to pay in local currency. Taproot Assets will bridge this.
In Fewsats for example the user prices the services and gets the payouts in $ by default.
We're the team behind Fewsats, a serverless platform that allows developers to easily deploy and paywall their applications using the L402 protocol with just a few clicks. Currently, we support STaaS (files) and DaaS (databases, in beta), with plans to expand to video streaming, APIs (FaaS), and more.
We would love to see L402 ecosystem. To that end, we've released some handy open-source tools, including the L402 Python library (just `pip install l402` or check the tutorial from the L402.org page) and Pillbox, an L402 credential manager.
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about Fewsats or L402 in general. We'd love to chat!
Platform: https://fewsats.com
Tutorial: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MLZy1g6-lFqbRAfFOxR...
Pillbox: https://github.com/Fewsats/pillbox
Built on top of the `HTTP 402 Payment Required` error, L402 brings built-in payments to the HTTP level.
The protocol defines a clear flow for servers and clients to process and verify payments automatically, making it a great solution for machine-to-machine interactions.
L402 is currently being used in production by companies such as Lightning Labs, where it was developed, fewsats.com or sulu.sh.
Addressing some misconceptions from previous Hacker News posts about L402, I would like to clarify two key points:
- L402 is not limited to micropayments. While the Lightning Network supports micropayments, L402 accommodates a wide range of payment types (one time, subscriptions, etc) and amounts, making it suitable for various use cases.
- The L402 flow is designed to be credential and payment agnostic. Although the current specification utilizes macaroons and Lightning invoices, any type of credential that can be linked to a challenge, and any challenge that delivers a proof of completion, can be used. This flexibility allows for the use of various mechanisms, from proof of work to Stripe returning the preimage of a hash.
At Fewsats, we are building a serverless platform that leverages the L402 protocol for built-in payments. However, we would love to see the ecosystem expand and flourish in various directions, with more developers and companies building upon this tech!