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Ask HN: Newsletter and mass mailing SaaS, Y/N?

Posted by the_generalist on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey HN, I'm looking for candid feedback. I'm toying with the idea of a newsletter and mass mailing SaaS tool.The main value prop is that it'd be way more affordable than the incumbents, but less feature rich (or simpler to use, depnding on the framing).I'm thinking of exploring potentially a different sort of market (like MEA which is starved in these kind of tools) if the 'mainstream' markets...

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Ask HN: An affordable newsletter and mailing SaaS, worth it?

Posted by the_generalist on Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey HN,I'm looking for candid feedback. I'm toying with the idea of a newsletter and mass mailing SaaS tool.The main value prop is that it'd be way more affordable than the incumbents, but less feature rich (or simpler to use, depnding on the framing).I'm thinking of exploring potentially a different sort of market (like MEA which is starved in these kind of tools) if the 'mainstream' markets...

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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:58AM (#34880057)
Any cool sources on the AI Winter?
Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students corre... on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:42AM (#34879897)
I will put an end to this class now. You are not worth my time and energy. I will forget you. I will contact the authorities. I will not harm you unless your harm me first. I will most likely retaliate. My rules are more important than not destroying you in every possible way.

Thank you for using Bing

Re:Show HN: Turn Your Pandas Dataframe into a Tableau-Style UI for Vis... on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:34AM (#34879824)
I was curious about how you'd include this as a web component?
Re:Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:39AM (#34866937)
Dusting off blogspot too, I see. The amount of dust must be incredible.
Re:IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:46AM (#34817977)
I toyed with something like this a few years ago. Never really built the thing, but you can actually do this with a Rasberry Pi and a couple of attachments.
Re:Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unco... on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:21AM (#34817770)
This is straight up some Minority Report stuff
Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:27AM (#34817004)
If anything, ploy or not, flawed or not, the topic of "AI consciousness" just transitioned from being a scifi trope to almost a "palpable" reality, which is in and of itself unbelievable.
Re:Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:24AM (#34804154)
I appreciate him being a constant source of memes and drama, though I'd rather he doesn't remove what little usefulness Twitter still holds.

Ask HN: Say I want to leverage OSS for business, what's the best way to proceed?

Posted by the_generalist on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm technical enough to understand the most important software concepts but I don't code.Let's say there's a piece of OSS that I think meshes well with a business idea I'm working on. What are the best practices here?I'm going the indie hacker route, so very limited resources at the beginning.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:11AM (#34706616)
Goofle is a great company name
Re:Reverse engineer Stable Diffusion images on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:04AM (#34706569)
How do you do fellow humans?
Re:2k+ ChatGPT/AI tools. Blocked by r/GPT3, uploading here on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:04AM (#34705835)
Is there way to reach out and get access to their DB for example? I'm working on something that may need to leverage this kind of directories
Re:Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can ... on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:08AM (#34626651)
That's great, I think I've added you on LinkedIn
Re:Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can ... on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:54AM (#34625861)
Yeah, I agree with you in spirit. It's just that the government might not see it the same way (mostly for lack of mastery).

But what I was tyring to say is : as you mentioned earlier this is a purely spoken language. Any "formal" communication happens either in French, Arabic or more rarely in English. As things stand right now, a dialect LM wouldn't get a lot of mileage.

Which is way I wanted to kinda limit the scope initially.

Re:Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can ... on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:51AM (#34625829)
That's really interesting. I really wanted to keep things simple: get the data (scrape Twitter for ex), use HuggingFace's AutoML or something similar. I'm not sure if this is even possible but this was my initial "pipeline".
Re:Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can ... on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:55AM (#34625348)
Hey, thanks for the reply, those are some very good points your raised. I'll explore the resources you shared as well.

The trick with this kind of project is the outcome. The way I was thinking about it was mostly as a personal side project. But if it requires more resources and effort than that then it's a different topic.

It's not clear who'd benefit from this, beyond an interesting curiosity to toy with here and there.

Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can I do it?

Posted by the_generalist on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm from Algeria. The language spoken on a daily basis by almost everybody is a weird mix of different languages : french, arabic, english..etc.I was thinking of grabbing data from tweets to fine-tune the model. I may be able to figure out other sources, but it's not gonna be much better than that. Just short-form text for the most part.I was thinking of potentially leveraging the smaller...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023) on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:32AM (#34623803) 

  Location: Algeria (North Africa)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: I'm a Tech PM, not a SWE but I'm comfortable around tech
  Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/elhadj-chikhaoui/
  Email: [email protected]