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altdataseller··on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
Replace “Medium” with internet. Otherwise this is just a paid promo piece for Medium
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
Its a pain in da arse to support brotli decoding in Ruby (not sure about other languages) so when I send http requests, i just omit it in the request headers
altdataseller··on Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life
1. How does it know how/when to reschedule that doctor's appointment that you need to call to reschedule? How do you know that receptionist won't hang up on your "AI agent" who tries to call them, b/c they think it's some sort of scam bot?

2. How does it know which contacts to contact? Does that acquaintance you talked to for some professional reason need to know your flight got rescheduled? What about that travel agency you talked to last night to confirm the flight?

altdataseller··on Ask HN: Why aren't we fighting email spam more effectively?
Mark them as spam and it will affect their deliverability rates

I highly doubt any agency will enforce violations since there would be thousands of companies in violation

altdataseller··on Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market
This. If something "worked", then nobody would share it, or it's so popular that everyone has everyone applied it, and it doesn't work anymore.
altdataseller··on 5.6M vacant homes and counting: There's a housing crisis brewing in the US
so maybe just lower the price some more?
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?
Just because there hasnt been a story doesnt mean its not important or critical
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?
That, and when people ask me about my problems, i tell them about it. But then i realize they want to know about problems that have a scalable or easy solution they can build.

In other words, I gave them my damn problem but they arent interested in solving them.

So no, i aint talking to you about my problems anymore

altdataseller··on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?
Exactly, if you are waiting to make something that very very few ppl are doing, you will be waiting a lifetime. That or the market is extremely small to be profitable.
altdataseller··on Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
Throwing away old code and rewriting it in a sexy, new language also takes time away from projects that are actually meaningfully innovative: ie projects that help customers do more, or be more efficient
altdataseller··on Rewrite cname uncloaking code to account for new ipaddress= option
Does this affect extensions that know every website you visit even if it doesnt need to know, and has nothing to do with the extension’s functionality? (ie the ones that Similarweb buys)
altdataseller··on uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address
For those unaware, what is uBO and how would it affect most extensions?
altdataseller··on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims
Shockwaves? yawns it doesnt affect me, my bank account, my family, my health or my happiness. Who cares?
altdataseller··on Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)
How is this different/unique than the thousands of other competitors that pretty much promise the same thing? sorry if it sounds dismissive of your product, but that's my first impression, and probably a lot of other ppl's too, so would be good to get a good answer...
altdataseller··on Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)
That’s not a bug. Thats a feature. When I request desktop view in my iphone, it should just treat me as a desktop user. I know its buggy. I know its a horrible experience but I just wanna see what its like.

Now I wont even check it out because I didnt get that first impression on my phone. I will just forget it.

Just my 2c

altdataseller··on Ask HN: 1000+ visitors but 1 customer, how to get more conversions on your SaaS?
You are basically asking a $1m question. And expecting someone to answer it for free.

And you aren’t even sharing your product with us.

altdataseller··on Ask HN: How to market a tool built for B2B?
I am not helping a random person with such an open ended question without at least knowing what this tool is. So share the tool.

Otherwise good luck finding what you need.

altdataseller··on Show HN: I built a chatbot to converse with 3M SaaS product reviews
The problem is I don't trust all those SaaS reviews in sites like G2, TrustRadius, Gartner etc. A lot of them are paid, and incentivized. Heck, I personally wrote a few nonsense ones just to get free gift cards. But I know some people give our free credits or discounts if you write a review for them.

Even a lot of "free" reviews on Reddit are secretly posted by the company, or someone who got paid by the company.

[UPDATE] Just tried the tool. 7 of the 8 bullet points your tool gave me was also given to me by Claude. I think both are using similar data sources, so I fail to see what differentiates this tool

altdataseller··on Tell HN: Never trust logos in SaaS sites
Unfortunately those are the same people in charge of buying decisions in big companies…
altdataseller··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
If you're not paying, you're the product.

If you're paying, you're also the product.

altdataseller··on Ask HN: Are you making money from LLMs? How?
What % of your reveneue goes towards LLM costs?
altdataseller··on TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast
I pasted a video link and it says “Not Found”. Absolutely not the best first impression.
altdataseller··on Launch HN: Marblism (YC W24) – Generate full-stack web apps from a prompt
How did Marblism know what external APIs were available when it generated those search volume charts? (or is it mock data?)
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Who Is OpenAI's O1 For?
ChatGPT has got to be the worst debate partners to practice with. They will give up so easily and tell you “you have a good point and are right.” as soon as you refute them.
altdataseller··on Ideas to make money as solo dev
That or integrations/apps for SaaS app stores and marketplaces. Think Salesforce apps, Shopify apps, etc
altdataseller··on Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
Wouldnt there be slight differences in different Unix flavors so that the script couldnt run in all of them? If it only worked on Solaris, what would happen if Solaris retired? (Like what happened to Centos)
altdataseller··on Sony Turns to AI to Tackle Rising Animation Costs and Animator Shortage
Its the same thing as people claiming there’s an “accountant shortage”. Both are nonsense. There’s a shortage of people who want to do the job for pennies
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
"data are aggregated anonymously".. that's what almost every data broker with a security breach also said at one point in the past.
altdataseller··on With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes?
Maybe its just me but every single time I really needed a past snapshot of a webpage, they never ever have it. Or they do and its a loading GIF because all the content is loaded from JS.

I think the fact a lot of sites are SPA or similar, and have bot blockers like Cloudflare is slowly killing their usefulness.

altdataseller··on Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation
How is Clay expensive? Their pricing seems quite complex, but to get say a list of 500 companies enriched with data, how much it it ballpark?
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