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Telemetry and intent analytics for AI products using natural language

Hey all. About seven months ago, I was building a monetization/adtech tool for AI products. To support it, I built a small telemetry layer on the side mostly for internal usage.I know it's a tired story for many here but .. I never thought it would happen to me. Our old users and most of our new users started to ignore the monetization tool and solely using our telemetry tool. Usage data,...

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Re:Telemetry data analysis for any AI product on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:39PM (#47283048)
We realized their was no good way to actually understand analyze ai telemetry data. IDK some feedback would be cool.

github docs: https://docs.atheon.ad/

THE TLDR from the podcast:

....the reddit CEO said "all the good people we know will do something in public service/run for office." "my wife said I should give back to city of SF some how..." "I have a big decision."

And he non-named how most start founders want the wrong thing from local politics.

I met Seibel once and he was the nicest person I ever met formally associated with the big orange YC.

Re:If the AI bubble does pop, what happens next? on Friday August 22, 2025 @03:02PM (#44988474)
the .com bubble feels like a soft landing
Re: on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:21PM (#43498324)
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Hi hackernews;

My friend and I built Arcana (https://github.com/arcana-ad) to solve the critical monetization challenge facing GenAI developers today.

While GenAI applications are seeing explosive adoption, developers struggle with a fundamental problem: traditional ad models destroy the user experience in AI-generated content.

Our solution: ●AI-based contextual analysis that understands the intent of AI-generated content ●Seamless integration of our Codex SDK into your stack in less than 5 minutes ●Non-disruptive, native ads that feel like a natural extension of AI interactions ●A revenue-sharing model with no monthly fees for Publishers

We've already onboarded 8 publishers with 150+ advertisements in our network, and over 50 developers have scheduled integration meetings in just two weeks.

If you're building in the GenAI space and looking for sustainable revenue without compromising user experience, I'd love to connect. We're particularly interested in feedback from the HN community on our approach to privacy-first, contextual advertising.

thanks Hackernews longtime reader first time poster

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There are such products. Outside of America whatsapp is a dominant social app but its use internally is almost mute despite being an american social app.

Tiktok america is over 50% of tiktok revenue I think that more than anything else would choke out growth world wide.

Does the wider start up economy still look positively on pivoting?

"Does the wider start up economy still look positively on pivoting?"yeah that's the core question I guess.A little background; my cofounder and I have a good start up but we're struggling to accelerate growth and raise capital because our current product is a simple Saas company.In our frustration we started a side project. We started working on a "cynical ai pivot" and after 2 months of work...

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Re:The man who killed Google Search on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:51PM (#40138761)
Long long time ago; youtube "staff" would manually put certain videos on the top of the front page when they started. Im sure there we're biases and prioritization of marketing dollars but at least there was human recommending it compared to poorly recorded early family guy clips. I dont know when they stopped manually adding "editors/staff" choice videos but I recall some of my favorite early youtubers like CGPGgrey claim that recommendation built the career.
Re:The man who killed Google Search on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:48PM (#40138735)
Well thats grim
Im depressed to know several areospace family members who have joked the commercial airline industry can be an open door soon
Re:Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:52PM (#38371668)
Its do depressing how much better everything runs ad free
Re:Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:58PM (#38370907)
If you're a duel monitor nerd it feels required if you want to do something besides internet surf on one monitor and stream something on other.

I dont have the most powerful computer but if I want to play baldurs gate 3 on one monitor while stream something on the other monitor it has to be in firefox over chrome.

Re:Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:55PM (#38370864)
Business wise makes sense google's cashflow is based on shoveling mostly shitty ads at people and youtube allows people to self select for more profitable ads.

Longterm will continue to harm google's product of search and youtube media products as it will motivate some people to figure out more ways that are more costly to google to dodge ads.

Human side wise this is starting to feel like the strangest form of corporate bullying. I want to believe that the motivation is to push up the demand for the strange mix products that is youtube premieum.

Re:Kart: DVC for geospatial and tabular data. Git for GIS on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:47PM (#38074706)
I wish all the success for this project, GIS is an under-valued and under served technical system.
Are Genshin Impact microtransactions a tax write off?
Re:The Social Radars: Conversations with Startup Founders on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:21PM (#35174201)
start up founders suffer from a sophistic case of protagonist syndrome.
Re:Ask HN: Have IRL tech meetups rebounded in your area? on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:24PM (#34269704)
In Los Angeles its super mixed, crypto people powering through likes the grateful dead, alot of promotion for various brands of mixed quality, every shared workspace/club claims to have high quality ones I just dont think 2k a quarter is worth the cost.

Im looking.

Im genuinely surprised they didn't lean harder into the hobby shop/coffeeshop/beer-wine angle every indepdent bookstore didnt lean into as community space. The B&N stores typically have so much space they could stock some model kits, some DND manuals and a more robust coffee shop and knock out the average understaffed and under equipped hoppy shop or independent wine bar that has books for sale.
Next up Renaissance style guild wars between rival companies Amazon endorsed candidate vs Walmart endorsed candidates
Re:Legal Support for Substack Writers on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:35PM (#23851335)
This is very interesting. A decentralized media platform company.
Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:44PM (#23836783)
I think a key to streaming is balance of audio and visual "stimulation." If you're not "doing" (as captured by OBS) something stimulating then you need to be saying something engaging. Some in theory if you're coding in python you might need say something to engage your; teaching, explaining your methodology or talking about current events around technology. If you're confident your audio stimulation will not be as strong you need to visualize something engaging. Sometime I did once via youtube was streaming myself writing a research paper creating maps in arcgis.