Gnod is still my main project. Combined, the Gnod projects for music, movies and literature are used by about half a million users a month now. I just closed the discussion boards because they caused so much work.
Other projects are Product Chart, which is a new type of product discovery tool, and illubots, which is an illustration agency where all illustrators are neural networks.
That makes sense re: discussion boards. Moderation is a tough problem. Years ago I worked at a regional newspaper and had to deal with the comment section on news articles, total mess. They eventually shut them down.
How did you get started, anything come before Gnod?
How do you plan to monetize illubots? Could see a use for that as an api for e.g. "generate collection of random but similar avatars"
The idea of illubots is that it provides the same service you would normally get from an illustration agency. For example a book cover. That means that the human work of selecting from the robot output, inpainting, outpainting, upscaling etc is included in the service. I am still fine-tuning the concept.
And what are your plans with sqwok? Feel free to shoot me an email or connect on Twitter if you like.