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murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
- Form filling is actually what my cofounder Rahul is working on right now. Automating scaled form filling in different languages with LLMs is something we're building for a customer.

- We know the founders at AgentGPT, they're from Vancouver Canada as well! But no we don't actually use any Agentic frameworks at all. There is no autonomy in AgentHub automations. Rigid automations like we provide were the only way we could find reliable and cost effective value for our early users.

- Yea your spot on, showing people what this can do is our single biggest challenge. We tried the approach of making tons of templates but for a template to be good it has to be general but when automations are general, they seem useless. We've narrowed in on a few ICPs but even then it's hard to know which is the right one to go after. Right now we're just throwing things at the wall, seeing what sticks and tending to our power users.

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
a run is a workflow run. The demo video i recorded for example would be 1 run.

This way of measuring things is kind of falling apart because people can nest automations and loop them to run many times on many values. One 'run' of a heavily nested automation could actually lead to hundreds of runs do to nesting.

My co-founder and I have debated this at length and the only way we see to solve this is to add a credit based system and stop caring about runs altogether. Each node would have a credit cost and each plan would have monthly credit alotment. If you can think of a better way we're very open to suggestions!

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
Oh great point. You're definitely not doing anything wrong. I built our template search to just keyword match the query and the name/descriptions of the template. So if your searching for scrape and the description says scraping or 'read website' you'd have no matches.

Here's an example of an automation that scrapes job postings to generate cover letters. The web scraping node here is the part reading the web page. https://www.agenthub.dev/pipeline?agent_id=cLsmah3zRHunw9SaL...

Thanks for calling that out. I'll fix this within the next 24 hours.

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
Thanks! The more we grow the more we find ourselves diversifying away from the OpenAI api. Our core AI node used to be called 'ask ChatGPT' because it felt familiar to users but we changed it to 'ask AI' because users wanted google gemini and perplexity support.

We really shouldn't be even mentioning the OpenAI calls in pricing since we equate Gemini-pro calls and perplexity-70b to GPT-3.5. We need to come up with new categories for the AI calls included in pricing that make more sense.

We also notice that the bigger our users get, the more they want to consider open source models and fine tuning. Open AI will be removed from the pricing description in the next few weeks once we come up with a better way of equating AI costs between models with a credit based system.

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
Ah yea, very good point. When i first built it I didn't know how design anything so our branding was just a blinking cursor. You can see a screenshot of the first UI (the dark mode one) here https://www.agenthub.dev/blog/why_agenthub_exists

I thought it was cool because it was similar to ChatGPTs cursor and was the only non static thing i was capable of building in terms of react components :)

Never considered the IP clash with Zapier until much later. Will definitely consider that with the rebrand.

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
Thanks! We've put a ton of effort into the look and feel. Two of our biggest power users are founders building their apps on top of AgentHub. One is doing mass data extraction from documents for research institutions in Australia.

The other built a cascading prompt engineering pipeline that iteratively tries to improve on it's output in a series of nested steps. They're the ones hitting 5k runs per day because they've nested their automations so many layers deep.

murb··on Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
I agree the name is a bit of a blunder. Non-technical users aren't all that familiar with agents and read the domain as d-e-v. We own Agenthub-ai.com as well, should probably start using that or rebrand to a simpler name all together.
murb··on [dead]
I have a 0.25 kdr with YC. Take these tips with a grain of salt but thought I'd share!
murb··on LLM Powered Twitter Account
They support easily switching to your other accounts in app. Elon himself got his alt account exposed a few weeks ago. Doesn't seem to be any rule against it.
murb··on LLM Powered Twitter Account
Automated tweeting is allowed as long as it's not spammy or harmful. I think the bots the normally refer to are those that auto-like posts and retweet peoples content for a fee

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom...

murb··on LLM Powered Twitter Account
You're totally right. I'll switch over to that now
murb··on Show HN: AutoGPT Made Easy
I built an AutoGPT web app that hosts agents for you in the cloud. The link I shared is preloaded with 300 free agent runs so have fun trying it out!
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