The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
We're back for the third episode of today. Lots has been done today. A few things I forgot to mention: on the 31st of last month I applied for a trademark. I looked into that whole thing. I'm one of those people who's like, leave that stuff for a bit, just get your idea out, prove your idea, get customers, get payments, and then if you really need to, look into that stuff. But something inside, a bit of an instinct, just said this time get your trademark first. So I did that.
Today I looked into getting a patent. I think it's different laws, obviously, in the UK and Europe, but I actually started the process of applying for a patent in the US today. Not for the app, not for just the idea, but some of the unique mechanisms that I use. I put that into ChatGPT today and it seemed to think we could patent that idea, so that's a work in progress.
Today I've added quite a few things, so there's a few concepts I want to show you right now. If you watched the other episode you'll notice that I tried to show you a walkthrough of setting up an episode and I couldn't show you the starting aspect of it. So this is what it looks like. When you click make my episode, this is the first screen you see. First you pick the shape, so it's video podcast, or if you can't be on camera, walk me through it. So what I'm showing you right now is walk me through it, where you share your screen.
Then we go for length, so it's short, standard, about three minutes, five at most, and then you've got long, which is up to 10 minutes. And this is why I'm recording because you've got to record your actual life. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Then you choose frame, so portrait and landscape, so obviously I'm landscape right now. And then from there you can type in anything that's on your mind. You can click read my day instead, where it's going to take that context from your day, what it's connected to, or it can suggest from what it remembers. So now it's got this backlog of what it knows about me and what's happened on all these episodes, so it can move that conversation on.
Let's look at archive. Archive is where all of your episodes are going to sit. I'm just showing you the bare bones because lots of things are going to improve and change in here. One thing I'll say is you'll notice episode three here and episode three here. So it's got a repeat, and this is because this is a take I didn't use but it still put it in the archive, which it shouldn't. Another thing is I've got an episode four here which should show a different kind of title screen.
Also at the top of your archive is the week. What we can actually do at the end of this week is cut the week, so it'll take all of those episodes and put a long form montage together, which is quite cool.
The other thing I want to show everyone, it even says this, two episodes are both numbered three. Both have been cut, so renumbering one could change a number you've already posted under. Pick which keeps the number. So just because it's in your archive does not mean it's live, does not mean it's public. In another video I'll go over stealth mode, which is just being private, building in public but in private, and then going live at some point you want. So whilst it's in archive it's private.
You can click on one and this is what you'll see. What's really cool is you can publish a new version. The cut changed since the file was made, so making tonight's episode renders as it is now, publish again picks it up. What I actually added today, which is quite cool, this is a seven minute 19 second video, so it's a long video. I added this thumbnail ability today. You can type in what you want on your thumbnail, you can suggest other words, you can click use this cover and then it will just apply to your screen. I can go in now and publish this new version.
Publishing means it goes into the directory. The directory is public, guys. These are going to be businesses being built right now in public. My goal here is to have tons and tons of businesses, kind of like a Netflix type thing, where investors or just the public can go in and see what's being built and see the origin stories of all of these companies. Obviously right now it's just me, and it's underway.
You've got episode 0 here and you can scroll this way. You'll see episode 4 has the thumbnail, so it's the first episode with the thumbnails, and these ones were just candid, and these ones have a title screen. The funny thing is you'll see episode 4 has a thumbnail, but if I go back into archive, episode 4 does not have it there, so I might make that change and apply it. Let's apply a new thumbnail to episode 3. You see it's already there, I've already clicked use as cover, I've already done that before this. Now I can publish this new version.
I won't let you guys wait, but what I can start to do now is make sure all of the ones in the directory, public facing, have thumbnails. It's kind of like YouTube. But yeah, that's it. Tomorrow I'll show you some more features.