are you referring to this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831177
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As a small company, we currently need to sacrifice the first reader's experience for the sake of spreading out the costs over time. But every subsequent read is cached!
On-the-fly/cache: Yeah, I agree. We're only four months old—the number of on-the-fly summaries will go down significantly over time.
85%: What could make it 100%?
Pricing: I think that's fair. But considering Blinkist charges for $100+ for yearly, the $80 lifetime deal isn't that bad.
Legal: We actually drive a decent amount of traffic to Amazon, Audible, and Kindle. We're hoping to partner with the publishers and authors in the future whether in the form of revenue sharing or licsening.
No, we generate summaries on the fly, too. Why would you generate all the summaries in advance when you can summarize real-time when a user clicks on it?
> What is with sloppybros and thinking quantity is more desirable than quality?
Have you read any of our summaries? Go ahead and read a summary of a book you've actually read and let me know what it's lacking. IMO, our summaries are way more thorough than human-written counterparts. And the structure is consistent across the entire catalog. In other words, we offer both quality and quantity.
> What motivated you to “remove” this fact from your website? Legitimate criticism?
No, just a matter of branding. We thought "AI" might add a cool factor, but everyone's AI nowadays, so we're just differentiating. Also, we didn't care to buy the ".ai" domain either. Most people already know it's AI-powered without us letting them know.
EDIT: just added a help article saying that we use ai
Once you scale to ~60M characters per month, it's 50% cheaper. In other words, if you're at a stage where you spend $1,000/mo on text-to-speech, you'd spend $500/mo instead.
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I'm seeing if immortality could be enabled via generative AI. I think this is the closest thing to uploading a brain to a computer.
What do you guys think? I'd appreciate any feedback.
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Bringing others down will never be an antidote to not building or achieving anything in your life. Your time will be better spent if you focus on bringing yourself up and others around you.
I think you want to get a rise out of someone over the Internet, with your identity hidden, to get attention. Hence, this will be my last comment-- but if you want to turn it around, I'd be down to help.