I'd say go where your users hang out. For me it was LinkedIn and reddit. Don't spend money on ads, it's simply not worth it at the beginning. Cold outreach works, the not so secret is that the message should be appealing. If you get bored reading your own outreach message, there's a high chance your audience will be too and you'll end up in spam as fast as I eat a chocolate tablet.
Now that's a fantastic piece of content. I have a Tually just launched a Claude wrapper that provides a voice interface to Claude. Definitely not as good as sesame so I'd dive again into your article to better understand how you got there, thank you so much for sharing!
Had the exact same thought some time ago now, even proposed it internally at my company. What makes me doubt this will work eventually is that scraping has been going on forever now and yet no standard has been accepted (as you noted robots.txt serves a different purpose, should have been called indexation.txt)
I was discussing this some time ago with a friend, I get the feeling that error messages these days try too much to apologize instead of providing the user with hints and clear explanations to solve the issue. It's all about emoji faces crying "boohoo there was an error" with a childish tone.
Can't wait to see AI avatars crying in front of you for failing to summarize an article.
I have started working on that idea for a little more than a month now and it's been constantly amazing to feel how fast I can build and deploy my ideas on the cloudflare stack (using Pages, Workers and D1) for now.
For now it does not have millions of websites available to search through but still 250K and growing fast (crawling constantly through a cloudflare worker)
Your content really helps me move forward with my project, thank you for that Max. Being back on twitter after six months, I get the same feeling. Cool and exciting to get retweeted and to see the followers count ramp up. But it does not necessarily translate into dollars at the end of the day. ROI is hard to see, at my level. Reddit feels more like an investment due to the SEO and hyper targeted niche audience on some subs.
Interesting! At the same time, HN current design already looks kind of brutalist to me, it's crisp and sharp without fluff. That's what makes it intemporal and easily readable on every devices.
I have learned something today, thank you for that! The pitch is clear and the fact that you put so much work in open sourcing it is really impressive.