But as someone who sells Reddit leads, i can tell you first hand that Reddis has gotten more hostile to these kinds of self promotion as of late.
Here is a nice write up from one of my competitors:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1qg2f5n/im_pivoting_m...)
I guess the YC folks have not caught up yet on this.
I guess I am very atypical.
My first customer came from Reddit outreach, and also my second, and third and so on. None came from personal network (never really even tried that, maybe i should)
I know its going to stop being so effective at at some point, but so far so good.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I heard from Ed Zitron that you can't really turn off "training" on these models even after they have been released because they need continuous re-training to keep up with the changes in the world and the language etc.
Is this correct? if it is, can we even say that research can be turned off entirely?
That is a good question, and I got to say i do not know the answer.
From what i have seen Hurd's goals is to actually end up using Rump kernels for a lot of things, and i think that there is a Rump version of a file system that they might be able to use.
This again is just my thinking and I don't know what the big picture plan is.
Also I had a redis clone from before, but with AI i separated the epoll layer from the actual database engine which made it sort of embeddable.
And hooked that embeddable database into a JNI interface, and now it can run inside Android applications, sort of like a concurrent hash map, but one that lives off heap and has support for TTLs and mget, msel, mdel, hashes and all that.
I use it for some silly android games.
Looking into twitter right now, it seems like the way to do it is with headless browsers, but they usually cost money.
For reddit there used to be the json endpoints that you could just fetch, and you can batch your subreddits, so its nice end easy. They have just killed those...old.reddit still works, but i fear like the days are numbered there as well.
I guess the YC folks have not caught up yet on this.