This looks great and congratulations on the launch.
I am also building in this space and wanted to get your views on a few things.
1. Are you building your own connectors to 3p systems?
2. How are you finding the sales motion? I found people to get the problem fast, but actually converting them seems rather slow.
Great read, I feel many of the topics discussed firsthand.
It gives me some relief to know there are others out there who struggle with some similar issues, but I was hoping the piece may offer some guidance, but sadly I do not feel it has.
I love this and wanted to build this - but https://www.alphaxiv.org/ already exists, and it gets no social action (hardly any papers have comments), so this makes me doubtful about this.
I am interested to hear if anyone knows why the format may not resonate with researchers or those reading papers in general?
My own reason is that to get value from a "social" site the number of interactions has to be high and of a fast speed for people to continue to engage, which is maybe not possible to hit on research papers.
This is a fair question, but not one I feel we can let people self answer.
I doubt many people will honestly admit they did no design, testing and that they believe the code is sub par.
It does give me an idea that maybe we need a third party system which can try and answer some of the questions you are asking… of course it too would be LLM driven and quite subjective.
I think this used to be the trick, but now with AI it is such a general purpose technology I am not sure that makes sense. Users can “niche down” in a generic app, using prompts and configs.
Fair play for launching this, it looks like a neat project.
However I feel it will be an uphill battle competing with OpenAI and Anthropic, I doubt your harness can be better since they see so much traffic through theirs.
So this is for those who care about the harness running on their own infra? Not sure why anyone would since the LLM call means you are sending your code to the lab anyway.
Sorry I don’t want to sound negative, I am just trying to understand the market for this.
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