Gamification of tipping app idea

[Kuruizuki]

Hi,

New to the forum; long-time audience from several sites.

I have an idea I would like to probe with real performers to see if there is interest in it and if you think it can be helpful or fun for you.

The app auto-covers private parts on your webcam in real time, with GPU AI detection. Black or custom PNG masks (kawaii packs included) stay glued on you even while you move. Viewers tip to unlock and reveal.
Runs 100% locally, outputs via virtual camera, so your OBS/stream setup stays unchanged. Integrated with Chaturbate tip events (more platforms coming, but CB was the easiest to implement first because their API does not require additional installation beyond the actual app)

First question, of course, is the app's real value: do you, as performers, think it can be a playful way to push viewers to tip, or just a waste of time?
I've focused heavily on anonymisation and privacy during development, so anything it sends over the internet is filtered through Cloudflare to remove IP addresses and other info, making tracing impossible. Still, I'm not sure how to make the app "trustworthy " for models.

Having been on caming site for quite some time, I have a small idea of the amount of weirdness and dangerous things a model is facing and protecting privacy is not a nice-to-have, but a real need... so I try to think about everything in that regard, but how can I gain the minimum of trust required from the community?

Won't post the site or the soft here unless people want it, but I really don't want this post to look like disguised advertising either; genuinely looking for your thoughts on the idea before anything
K.

 

[m3lissa]

Honestly, it sounds interesting--I think it could be fun. I don't know, though, how safe it'd be to use on CB because of the AI thing. It'd be great if you got Chaturbate's approval before asking any model to use it.

If you're not looking for money, then I think the easiest way to make it "trustworthy" is to make it open source.

 

[cbhours]

Black or custom PNG masks (kawaii packs included) stay glued on you even while you move.

You know what would be hilarious? an auto emoji mode that detects smiles, frowns, straight face, smile with teeth, etc etc and replaces the emojis covering the private parts automatically based on the face the model is making.

 

[rockin_rod]

I'm a viewer, not a model, but have so many questions about how this would/could work, such as:

• can the model choose which parts of their body are covered, and which parts are revealed?
• can the model decide how long the duration of the 'uncover' is?
• (above may be related to tip size)
• can the model set options for the 'uncover' - example, for only the user that sends the tip, or for every user in the room who has tipped (a minimum amount) during that session, or for everyone?

 

[Vixxen81]

I've done this on my own with images. The novelty wears off fast and guys don't have much interest in the peep show aspect. But never hurts to try I guess.

 

[KingMarti]

I've done this on my own with images. The novelty wears off fast and guys don't have much interest in the peep show aspect. But never hurts to try I guess.

I have tried a bunch of stuff like this, and pretty much had this exact idea but couldn't work out how to actually implement it (kudos to op for working that out). But I found the same, novelty of things like this wares off pretty quick, for me at least, one of the main reasons why I stopped coding interactive stuff for cam, a week of work for 2 days of novelty as just a bad trade off for me. I can see it lasting a bit longer in rooms that have a high flow of new traffic, but when a room is built mainly of regulars the "this is cool" to "this is boring" is a pretty short time frame.

OP could expand it with other games that use the same principle, like a match 2 cards where instead of bluring and undoing some of the blur the user would tip a number associated with a card, then tip for a second card and if they match remove the cards. Plenty of alterations you can do with it to add in more variety but again for me they are too short lived to be worth making, but I do think there are rooms where something like that would be better suited.