Hub Nexus Pitch Summary

Elevator Pitch

Funded, versioned, collaborative and free open source content creation and sharing platform

Demo

Pitch Deck and Founder Introduction is at the bottom

• Website Walkthrough and Examples - Video
• Hub Nexus Pitch Deck and Founder Introduction - Summary, Document, Video

Product

Hub Nexus is a public funded, version controlled, creator-and-public collaborative and free open source content creation and sharing platform

• Creating and updating each version of content nodes through collaboration among creators, maintainers, and public
• Adding value to content nodes and supporting creators to make better content from public likes and donation

Hub Nexus each content is considered as a node

• Unique, supports any forms of content
• Connective, able to connect to other nodes as a content link. Multiple links is considered as content sections
• Manageable, quorum could invite potential contributors. The management system is concise and intuitive, including invites and cancellation, demotion and promotion, and author transfer.
• Free and open source, public could enjoy any content nodes
• Version controlled, the public could submit edit requests to any content nodes. Node quorum could review, compare and vote on edits. Approved edits could be committed to publish as node next version
• Valued, public could like and follow, or donate one-time or continually to support the node

Hub Nexus content create editor

• Preview as you edit - what you see is what you get, auto layout, intuitive and hands on
• Drag and drop any forms of multiple media
• Built-in audio, video, screen recording

Hub Nexus aims to let creators produce unique, valued, high quality content. While the public enjoys the content, they could interact with creators by liking, donating, and collaborating to improve content. So that each content could constantly absorbing nutrients to perfect, and to live with time.

User Acquisition

Hub Nexus target users could be divided in 2 types

• Creators
  Content producers, e.g. media freelancer and professionals, elites from universities, organizations, companies and industries, and public.

With Hub Nexus providing free, powerful, and intuitive content editor, concise content review, compare and vote system, easy management system, and straightforward donation tool, hopefully the platform would attract media people to join.

• Viewers
  Content consumers, supporters, and updaters, i.e. public
  Having high grade content plus on-point and smooth user experience Hub Nexus provides, hopefully the platform would attract the public. While the public consumes the content freely, they could like and donate favorited content, or improve content along with creators.

Granted with financial support in the early stage, stimulation like rewards of 10 to 20 dollars for each content created in the first half or first year of joining. The following related users might be suitable to join Hub Nexus earlier.

• Universities

• Courses - syllabus, content, audio and video recordings, and student notes

• Thesis, papers, research

• Tests preparation summary, key notes, past tests examples

• Common knowledge and academy

  • Wikipedia
  • Media, books, music, movies, pop cultures, and others
  • Not well-known knowledge, trivia
  • Bizard, interesting anecdotes
  • Unsolved myth
  • Each language represents its own view of the world

• Experience sharing

• Industry and profession

• Parenting

• VC and startups

• Cooking and eating

• Exercising

• Health

• Tips and tricks

• We media

• History archives of each sectors, e.g. every game intros, lores and reviews, every electronic manufactured

• Vlogs

• Podcasts

• Other

• Petitions

• Votes

In the mid and latter stage, while Hub Nexus provides content as free and open source, funded and collaborative, and constantly created and improved, on sufficient financial basis, we could invite celebrities, elites to share key contents of education, profession, technology, science, experience at each history stage, so that those highest grade content could be preserved with time. Public could then quickly ramp up field expertise to better serve and contribute to society. In the meantime, the public could collaborate with elite creators to improve each content node to live with time.

The ultimate goal is to let everyone be able to easily access, create, improve, support any content, and let each content be continually supported and improved.

Progress

I’m currently a full time employee. In April 2023, I spent every possible free time and launched Hub Nexus in 6 months. If supported financially, I will surely be devoted to my idea full time.

Since Hub Nexus launched in Oct, 2023

• Product, all functionalities a mature website should have, are developed and user experience improved
  • Content creation
  • Content review, compare, and vote system
  • Content management and invitation
  • Content connectivity
  • Content uniqueness algorithm
  • Content version control
  • Content search
  • User account and identity
  • Like, favorite, watch later, follow, share
  • Donate
  • Tutorials
  • About of intros, terms, and playground
  • Email notifications
• User acquisitions, mostly friends and relatives, MAU 5, 20 users in total with 3 user increase per month
• Profit, zero

I’m currently contacting media people, academic people, researchers, professionals, elites, fans and tech enthusiasts to join Hub Nexus to share their high grade content

Business Model

Hub Nexus content nodes are free and open source for content viewing, creation, and updating. When a node is donated by the public, Hub Nexus would subtract 14% as platform fee, and distribute the rest among current authors with 2 shares and contributors 1 share.

The ultimate market desirably sums up all media creation sharing platforms.

Origin

Like other 90s, I played video games in early age, go to exam-oriented educations. I was always told by parents and felt for myself that after the advance exams, I will different. Especially after entering the college, my mind was so void and lost. It was not what I thought of and kept telling of.. For those students who get top grades or make breakthroughs in science or engineering, I just admire them and admit what I was. In terms of advanced academics and events abroad, I was just listening to friends or relatives talking about what they thought about. After study and work in US for over 12 years, I realized that changing perspective is crucial that my past passivity and timidity forms a thinking barrier. Now I realized every stage in life, there’s no right and absolute answer. Every road leads to Rome. It got me thinking that becoming a much better person in every aspect is not going to a better school, but proactively self improving with independence.

Also the fact that universities, organizations, and companies tries to sandbox their own high grade content and that media people due to financial reasons, advertise with free content and put high grade behind pay walls as paid courses and channels make me keep thinking that those high grade content, from education, science, technology to industry profession and entertainment should be free, accessible, valued, constantly improved with collaboration with creators and public. Thus everyone in this world could experience every aspect of the world at an early age, constantly learning, breaking perspective barriers and inertia, improving expertise to contribute back to the high grade content and society.

The content social media produced nowadays are fast-food like, shallow, incomplete, repetitive, but addictive. A book I read once says to keep a person addictive requires two conditions, with one to make action low cost, and the to keep produce prompts. In reflection of current social media, easy design and constant notifications let many keep consuming those fast food content unhealthily.

Maybe because of my programming at an early age, I always thought that besides code, that everything could be version controlled, free and open source, valued, having life to constantly absorb creators and public provided nutrients, and able to live with time.

Hub Nexus is then created from those phenomenon and my thoughts, to let high grade content in this world created, improved, and shared with colloboration between creators and public. Everyone could based on their interests, keep learning, breaking barriers, improving expertise to contribute back to content and society.

Differentiation

Hub Nexus as a content creation, sharing, development and funded platform features that every content node is valued, connective, free and open source, able to be funded, version controlled, able to be improved with joint effort between creators and public. Hub Nexus also features that node content could be anything, e.g. education, science, technology, engineering, profession, industry, academy, knowledge, news, entertainment, etc. And node content supports any combination of any form, e.g. text, image, animation, chart, formula, code, audio, video, screen recordings.

Hub Nexus has built-in audio, video, screen recordings, what-you-see-is-what-you-get intuitive editor, and supports uploading any form of media. Its goal is to become a cloud platform for conveniently creating, improving and donating any form of content.

Platforms in the market

• Github, version controlled code iterations, each repository could be donated
• Youtube, video sharing website, no version control, part of videos could be donated one time
• Zhihu, question and answer website, no version control and donation
• Xiaohongshu, experience sharing and online store website, no version control and donation, DAU 160M
• Wikipedia, academic encyclopedia, its company could be donated, DAU 250M
• Fandom，lores of books, music, movies, and games, no donations, DAU 10.8M
• Twitch，opnions of current news, no version control and donations, DAU 31M, profit 2.6B

Timing

People’s spontaneity nowadays are increasing drastically globally. Many people began to question education and work system, thinking past are wasted partly due to blindly follow other people to learn and do things. Many people, instead, begin to proactively think for themselves what is their ultimate passion to live their true life.

After pandemic, many university and company began to adapt remote, and many past systems begin to not make sense. Especially the knowledge sandboxed or behind a paywall begins to endure financial loss, due to content sharing via peer to peer, groups, or forum communities. Hub Nexus on the hand while providing content as free and open source, funded and collaborative, and constantly created and improved, on sufficient financial basis, the platform could invite celebrities, elites to share key contents of education, profession, technology, science, experience at each history stage, so that those highest grade content could be preserved with time. Public could then quickly ramp up field expertise to better serve and contribute to society. In the meantime, the public could collaborate with elite creators to improve each content node to live with time.

Social media nowadays are scattered and specialized but limited in its own form of content and features. The content produced are mostly fast food like, expired quickly, shallow, incomplete, repetitive, and limited to one or two form of content. Hub Nexus is projected to be the ultimate terminal, a one stop platform for converging all world content for the public to freely access, create, improve and support, to let every content to live with time.

Milestones and Hiring

Product features

• Content editor, currently based on third party open source editor. We aim to develop own world best, most intuitive, most smooth with least lag and most powerful editor
• Content version review, the basic functionalities are developed. We aim to develop the best review, compare, vote system, by improving algorithm of content version differetiation, especially to make non-text media differentiation more intelligible. It might need the help of AI. Inline review commenting also should be developed. And each edit request should have its own edit reviewed versions
• Notifications, currently only supporting in-app and simple email. We aim to provide push, mobile, rich and complete email notifications
• Identity Security and Personalization. We aim to enhance account security by changing passwordless email login to mobile verification. For personalization, preference settings for privacy, notifications, and others are to be implemented. In addition, profile pages with personal avatar and personalized intros need developing.
• Payment system，now using stripe api. We aim to develop own payment donation and payout system

Hiring seasoned engineers

3 Frontend engineers

• Content editor, to make better user interactivity and experience, smooth with least lag preview-as-you-edit rendering, support more complex formulas and charts, enrich built-in recording tools functionalities
• Content review, compare, vote system, to add inline review comment, non-text differentiation rendering, edit version switching
• General, like account and profile personalization, notifications, frameworks, and migrations

3 Backend engineers

• Payment donation and payout system
• Identity security and Personalization
• General and algorithm，to improve node version control, add edit version control, enhance differentiation algorithm, add non-text differentiation algorithm

1 Reliability engineer

• Backend general and cloud infrastructure，to add or update system components in cloud architecture, profile auth with mobile validation service, notification pub-sub service, database security, CI, CD

Founder Intro

Experience

JP Morgan Chase

• Lead 3 teams to develop Chase Travel with airlines, railroads, and hotels. Planning initiative of full stack framework migration to Next.js with Prisma, ensure tech compatible of multiple system components, reduce tech debts, merge cloud infrastructure, milestone plannings
• Discuss with tech lead and manager of each team with weekly reports of each epic progress
• Ensure blockers removed from each team, prioritize stories and make dues, and backlog for current 2 sprints
• Hiring senior engineers and architects

Meta

• Responsible for generating ads data and labels for machine learning of personalized ads, from user events, e.g. clicks, views, purchase, and intent. Rearchitect entire system components, scaled to multiple data pipelines, migrate off gRPC communication, changed to micro service architecture, like raw data storage, user feature extractions, decouple with pub-sub, solved intense increase in big data. After solving the ad-hoc memory in previous system, the data consumption and feature output increased from 500M to 1.7B
• Drive initiative to enforce user privacy, lead a team of 5 enforce every system component is privacy enforced, architect infrastructure to support basic ads

Epic Games

• Lead Ukrainian team of 30, delivered gaming development platform, from architecting game products life cycles, designing continuous delivery platform, and stage review and censorship

Stories

• I like programming since little. When I study embedded design in college, I self made a custom communication protocol with zigbee. I then spent 3 months and designed heart rate bumper and detect device. Through my mom referral, a medical instrument company in Shanghai inclined to purchase the design schematics, the code and request for a software to view and manage the detected heart rates. After spending 2 months of self learning and making, I delivered the software along with hardware design and embedded code for 15K RMB
• My graduate final is CPU design. I very interested in designing my own CPU, so I browsed a lot of thesis and papers, while the other teams were just referenced and followed what the professor outlines and do the design step by step just like previous lab homework. I then self made a lite version of combined algorithm from thesis, verified from self learnt simulation in perl and matlab. After the parameters match the design requirements, I began to design schematics, and then do the actual VLSI layout of MOSFETs. At last, our teams won the 1st prize, outperform the second team by 4 times the CPU speed, and half the chip layout size

Ideas

Event planning and marketplaces

Intro

Event marketplaces of product lending and purchasing, property leasing, service ordering, and event planning system

Competitors

• Airbnb，DAU 150M, profit 8.4B
• Eventribe，DAU 100M，profit 260M
• Meetup，DAU 12M，profit 280M

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