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Hey folks, CEO/Founder of Contentedge here - you have it totally wrong. :)

It seems like you equate SEO with blogspam, which is just false!

We help businesses create more useful content and get it to the right people. Google is the gateway to the internet. I don’t view it as gaming the system; we’re trying to empower smaller businesses and writers to get found.

Give Contentedge a try and see if we're just building a spam machine like you contend! (no credit card required) https://secure.contentedge.com/users/signup/free

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I clicked through to your website and I didn't sign up, but I did watch the video on the front page.

What's the intended usecase for creating AI content other than blogspam-style bait and switch? Shouldn't these businesses already have content of their own?

It would make more sense to me if your product was aimed at helping websites SEO-optimize the content they already have, as I can't see how a human would ever find your AI-written content useful.

Blogspam is a subset of SEO, for sure.

This comment does nothing to convince me that it isn't the subset you're targeting, because that last sentence sounds a lot like you're describing blogspam.

(parent comment was edited after I wrote this, read "last sentence" as referring to the paragraph beginning with "We help businesses create more useful content and get it to the right people.")

There are a thousand services exactly like yours trying to get rich by letting people generate spam with GPT-3

I’m frankly shocked you’re YC funded…. I’m guessing a pivot from what they originally funded you for

Thanks for the kind words!

You should feel bad about your life choices.

Are Shutterstock, Zapier and Airbnb really using your product? If so, in what context? I’d love to see some examples.

Highly, highly doubt it

You are a clearly a very cynical person! €:

Hi Ryan - I created an account to give your free trial a shot.... it required me to enter a credit card ... which I reluctantly did. Now I am going to cancel and it won't let me. It asks for my password, which I don't have, because I created my account with SSO. There is no support menu / phone / email anything to request help. What kind of half baked crap is this?

Sorry about that - not sure what happened here. Sent you an e-mail so we can resolve this for you.

SEO garbage is destroying the internet and google's complicity or indifference is forcing even legitimate content creators to turn their pages into mountains of meaningless duck speak that makes you feel like you're having an anuerism just long enough for the visit to count as a view rather than a bounce.

Totally wrong? Geez, no thank you.

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