The original note, as written at the time
A soft tool that automatically captures, documents and shares your solutions to various challenges while using a computer. It can then feed these presentations into a media channel like YouTube. This can be an auto money earner for anyone who does a lot of problem solving and yet does not have time to sit down and prepare material for sharing his endeavours.
Ongoing development
A soft tool that automatically captures, documents and shares the solutions you reach while working on a computer, and can feed those presentations into a channel — an automatic earner for anyone who does a lot of problem solving but has no time to prepare material.
The bar is time, and it is exactly right. The people with the most to teach are the people with the least time to teach it, and the reason is not modesty. It is that turning a solved problem into an explanation takes an hour you do not have once the problem is fixed.
The capture has to be quiet enough to keep working, which is the hard design problem. A recorder that makes you announce what you are doing destroys the state it is trying to record. So the tool should capture the trail — the searches, the errors, the commands, the tab history — and assemble the explanation afterwards.
The assembly is where the value sits, and it must be editable. A reconstruction that you cannot correct is worse than nothing, because it is confidently wrong in your name. So the output is a draft, with the trail attached.
Commercially, the honest version is small payments for genuinely useful solutions rather than a media business. A hundred people each solving one thing, documented, is worth more than ten influencers.
The risk is that the tool captures confidential work, so it must be local, reviewable and off by default until switched on per task.
The world loses enormous knowledge every day because fixing something is urgent and explaining it is not.