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Show HN: I built a posture monitor for computer users

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Quick Thoughts on Agents

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Show HN: Autofill dates and time slots in Notion

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I launched a new “AI” SaaS a week ago. Some numbers and learnings

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Ask HN: What's a good library/command line tool to extract tables from PDFs?

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Ask HN: Ideas for offering a free trial without users abusing it?

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Show HN: Chat with your PDF (my first AI side project)

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Learning and building a chatbot from scratch with Laravel/PHP and OpenAI

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Bookmarking Is a Misunderstood Problem

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Product success without followers/audience?

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Freelancer Positioning 101

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alfarez
·last year·discuss
Hi all,

I built a simple posture monitor that runs in the browser. Why? Because my neck pain has gotten to epic proportions, and this not making me happy.

Finally put it online today, so if you want to try it out, here it is: https://posturemonitorapp.com.

No installation, no signup, none of that BS. Just go to the URL and start monitoring. Yeah, it's free.

If you do use it, please do let me know what you think. I'd love to know what I can do to improve it.

Thanks!

Farez
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
3 months ago I built and launched ClarifyPDF.com, a "chat with PDF" app, mainly to learn how to build a chatbot, and to learn what's it like to launch a SaaS around this type of GPT app. I share my lessons and observations in this post.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Thanks for that.

What about it being $2 is going to bring abusers?
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Thanks everyone for your input. More than anything, it's been really great at making look at the bigger pricing picture.

My conclusion:

I'm not going to put in a free tier, because as @brudgers mentioned below, if they can't spend $1.99 to try it, then they're not my target market.

So, in words I read somewhere else before, instead of downgrading my product, I should upgrade my customers.

I will instead spend time creating a high quality product.

And slowly raise prices as I improve the product.

Thanks again, everyone.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
This is what I'm debating too. Thanks.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Thank you. That's just an off-the-shelf template from https://tailwindui.com!
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
I like the cookie idea. Thanks.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
You've put in words what's been in my gut. Thank you.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Hmm, some interesting suggestions there. Thanks!

Captcha is a good one and easy to implement for now. Will do that.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Sorry, to be more precise, "same document" could mean the same content but in different formats. OR just slightly tweaked to result in a different hash each time. Harder to abuse for sure, but still has holes.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
BTW, the web app is at https://clarifypdf.com, if you need to see what it is first.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Thanks for that feedback.

That UX flow seems strange because the screen flow should just be: 1) upload, 2) pay, 3) chat. It shouldn't have asked you to check your email for anything.

Please feel free to email me at alfarez at gmail dot com if you're still seeing this issue.

As for handling large files, I'm using a popular method of breaking down the doc into small chunks and then just sending the relevant chunks to the AI.

How to pick the "relevant" chunks? Use embeddings and search for the embeddings that are "semantically closest" to the question being asked.

I wrote up an outline of this process here: https://farez.me/how-to-create-a-chatbot-with-openais-api-a-...
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
Only on GPT-3.5 at the moment, so token length is only 4097. Still waiting for GPT-4 API access!

But you can upload up to 10MB in file size.
alfarez
·3 years ago·discuss
A short writeup on my journey so far, on building a simple that uses OpenAI's API.
alfarez
·4 years ago·discuss
How I'm thinking about Twitter (and general) bookmarking now, after several hundred bookmarks.
alfarez
·4 years ago·discuss
A little writeup of my thoughts around collectig and consuming information. Thoughts that came out of building a bookmarking tool.