In my opinion this is a transitional niche.
Soon websites/apps whatever you want to call them will have their own built-in handling for AI.
It's inefficient and rude to be scraping pages for content. Especially for profit.
Soon websites/apps whatever you want to call them will have their own built-in handling for AI.
It's inefficient and rude to be scraping pages for content. Especially for profit.
It is like every website having search engine vs google.
I would guess the hardest thing by far in developing the advertised product would be user management, authentication, payments and wrapping the subscription model's business logic around the core loop. And probably scaling, as running embeddings over hundreds of scraped pages adds up quickly when free tier users start hammering you.
My question when deciding to sell something I've built is, if building the service model is harder than building the actual service, where is the value add?
My take on the natural evolution is that collating and caching documents, websites etc for search (with source attribution ideally) is a problem that will I think ultimately be solved by OS vendors. Why sign up for SaaS and expose all your content to untrustworthy 3rd parties, when it's built right in and handled by your "trusty" OS.
In the meantime, I reckon someone more dedicated than me will (or probably already has) open source something like I built but better, probably as a CLI tool, which will eventually reach maturity and be stolen cough I mean adopted by the top end of town.
Ethically I think nothing's changed for centuries in regards to plagiarism and attribution. It gets easier to copy work and thinking, but it also ultimately gets easier to acknowledge sources. Good folk will do the right thing as they always have done.
Regarding efficiency, I think tools like this have a place in making access to relevant and summarised knowledge during general research more efficient, when doing the broad strokes to find areas of interest to zoom in on, when more traditional approaches take over.
Interesting times anyway. I have to give credit to people that try, but I'm taking a back seat in thinking of ideas to productise in this space, as by the time I've thought it through, something new comes along that instantly makes it obsolete.
This isn’t “niche”, it’s a pretty cool thing OP has built.
How about instead of commenting and trivialising what people have done, you say something positive
Lmfao. God bless HN for keeping this meme going for decades by now.
Nobody cares how you would build it because you haven’t. At least not in any form that we can see.