Show HN: Launching my first startup

Something was missing though… I tend to read a lot of documents and need the ability to reference that material specifically and ask my questions. One option was to copy-paste parts of a doc into chatGPT, but that's a crappy solution when the context you're looking for could be scattered across thousands of pages.

This is where our little startup, Three Sigma was born. A few buddies and I quickly realized how helpful this could be to students, lawyers, and anyone that deals with tons of documents alike. We started small by spinning up a pretty front end and tagging on a waitlist to see if there would be any traction (There wasn't). We quickly grew discouraged until one day in a last-ditch effort, I threw a post on hacker news and went to bed. The next morning was glorious. Thousands of people were trying out our demo and leaving feedback. Needless to say, I was on top of the world. We continued to do some marketing and realized there in fact was a demand.

From January -> May we built, tested, broke, and revamped our product until we squeezed every last drop of performance a two-man team could in a few months of work. All the while we continued marketing and getting people signed up for our waitlist. Things were going well.

Though ChatGPT is a fantastic tool, it's not infallible. We wanted the ability to reference what parts of the document were used to generate an answer so you could fact-check the answers without sifting through thousands of pages by hand (or dealing with a black box). Oh and one more thing. We didn't want to jump from ChatGPT to Three Sigma back and forth. Three Sigma had to be a one-stop shop, so we implemented a “Free Solo Mode” where you could directly interact with Openai's models.

On May 11th, we launched our product. Satisfied with the leaps of progress we made in the last few months. Long story short, there are tons of new AI tools coming out every day. I wanted to personally Thank Hacker News for giving us the courage to ship Three Sigma

I would love for you guys to try it out, and leave feedback. Thanks again.