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Re:What Is ServiceNow? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @09:48AM (#42194359)
Has anyone worked with ServiceNow before? What's the most interesting use case you've seen?
Re:What Is ServiceNow? on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:01PM (#42185606)
The CERN one is a classic. 4000+ apps for managing everything from vacation requests to particle accelerator access

https://indico.cern.ch/event/587955/contributions/2937853/at...

We evaluated most of these (minus Workato) and landed on Nango. Was by far the most flexible and having the source code available was a big plus (vs. the closed-source alternatives). The team is also reactive to feedback in their Slack community, they even added a few new endpoints for us in < 24 hours
Nango is awesome. I've used it across several projects and it's sped up our "time to live integration" significantly + reduced maintenance costs. Congrats Bastien, Robin and team!
Re:Show HN: Free "GPT" to make interactive quizzes on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:21PM (#38976409)
Very cool. I was initially confused since I expected the questions to be multiple choice, but then I realized you're evaluating whether the answer is correct or not using AI (so I can type "Obama" or "Barack Obama" and both are correct). Haven't seen that approach before!
Re:AI has killed software switching costs on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:58AM (#38558753)
(OP here) Bit of a controversial take I wrote about. Most people think that AI benefits incumbents and LLMs deepen software moats.

But for the first time, we have an intelligent, format-agnostic file converter. Give ChatGPT an export file from one app, and seconds later you get an import file ready for another tool.

We've seen the benefit first-hand at our startup with our "AI Form Importer". It's now easier than ever to demo and migrate to new software solutions.

I think this is largely a good thing for the ecosystem.

Re:Show HN: Nango – Open unified API for product integrations on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:18PM (#38211482)
We use Nango for https://fillout.com and it's been a great addition to our tech stack. Has made it much faster to add new integrations without having to navigate OAuth docs each time
We do at https:///www.fillout.com (online form builder).

Free plan includes 1000 submissions per month and then we offer discounted pricing plans for startups

Re:Show HN: Retool AI on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:15PM (#37424132)
We give 2-3 examples and find that it works pretty well (few shot fine tuning) but haven't tried actual fine tuning yet so I don't have a 1-1 comparison.

We also have other spam filters that are not LLM-based. One of the main benefits of the LLM-based approach is that it's good at catching people who try to avoid detection (e.g. someone purposefully mis-spelling suspicious words like "pa$$word")

Re:Show HN: Retool AI on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:59PM (#37422967)
It outputs both - { isLikelySpam: boolean, reason: string }

Then we have an inbox app (also made in Retool) that our support team uses to manually review any submissions that are isLikelySpam = true. The <reason> helps to understand why it was flagged.

Our use case is for a form builder (https://fillout.com) but I imagine this type of use case is pretty common for any app that has user-generated content

Re:Show HN: Retool AI on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:41AM (#37420620)
We've been using the ChatGPT API from Retool Workflows (for spam detection) and it's been valuable for our business. The built-in vector DB looks interesting

Show HN: Email Enricher, a Free, Offline Clearbit Alternative

https://github.com/dominicwhyte/email-enricher

At my prior employer, we got Slack alerts for big company sign-upsI wanted the same for my new startup (https://fillout.com) but quickly found that Clearbit would cost us $7,000 / mo...Instead, I made this free npm package `email-enricher` the returns if an email is likely from a Fortune 1000 companyHope it's useful to someone else!

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Re:Database Wars 2.0: Why Everyone’s Building a Database on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:15PM (#37253313)
Seems like every big tech company is building a database product: Zapier Tables, Microsoft Lists, Retool DB, Google Tables, Monday WorkOS...

Feels like a return to the Database Wars of the 90s

Re:Show HN: PDF to Form Converter on Thursday July 20, 2023 @02:01PM (#36804257)
Thanks. We've got a lot planned on that front - like auto-translating templates to different languages, generating themes with GPT, etc.

So many possibilities!

Show HN: PDF to Form Converter

https://www.fillout.com/ai-form-builder

Hi HN,A friend and I hacked this together to turn PDFs, docs and raw text into an easy-to-fill online form.The hardest part was getting the prompts to work reliably. We're using PDF.js to parse the document, asking OpenAI to extract the questions and calling the Fillout API to create the form.Let me know what you think: https://fillout.com/ai-form-builder (free to use + no sign up needed)

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Re:How not to add AI to your product on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:44PM (#36035788)
Hi folks - sharing my mistakes and learnings from how we added AI to our SaaS (and what we're trying differently now).

I'm around if you have any questions/comments.

Dom

Re:Show HN: Build auto-updating dashboards in a spreadsheet on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:09PM (#34810596)
Big fan of Equals. We use it at our startup to track cohorts (using live data from Stripe)
Re:Show HN: Browse Popular REST APIs on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:26PM (#34644448)
We have Twitter already! https://tryapis.com/twitter

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