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Show HN: C8lore – Discussions from Slack, Discord, Telegram Communities in LLMs

Hi HN,I use ChatGPT and Claude daily for research and coding. I often wish they had direct and fresh access to discussions in the private product, marketing, ideas, and engineering news communities I’m part of on Slack, Discord, Telegram,...So I built c8lore.com (for "community lore" :) that connects and indexes many communities once — it indexes the discussions (near real-time) and LLMs can...

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I agree this is one of solutions. However, it doesn't seem to scale very well, based on my experience observing companies with 100 to 300 eng teams.

The problem doesn't disappear though, but shifts to other people. Unless you have seen it differently - can you tell me more?

Ask HN: Does "semantic sync" pain resonate? Looking for examples

Hi there!I am trying to validate a problem I keep seeing at bunch of mid-size companies that run on Slack, Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Docs, often Figma, email, ...The pain isn’t search. Tools like Glean are good overlays for discovery.The pain is drift: decisions or clarifications made in one place don’t get reflected in the others, so truth diverges and teams lose time reconciling.So what...

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Re:Show HN: Turn emails into PDFs (as easy as it gets) on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:45AM (#38557637)
(1) is fair point. Use at your own risk. This tool is transactional and stores nothing.

(2) that’s a different use case. This tool is for automation, something that is not being done manually. I do agree there are lots of options to do this on your computer. This tool is for somebody who has emails going and forth and wants an easy PDF copy.

Re:Show HN: Turn emails into PDFs (as easy as it gets) on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:19PM (#38552773)
Not sure if I understand, but you can forward any email and it will reply back to you with PDF version of what you’ve sent. Hope it helps.

Show HN: Turn emails into PDFs (as easy as it gets)

Our customers (mostly B2B) have been asking for PDF version of invoices, receipts and whatnot instead of the ones sent as email.Tapdone, my side project. It's like a PDF agent listening to your emails. `Bcc` the service when you send out an invoice, and it flips that email into a PDF and shoots it back to you and your customer.Zero fancy stuff, just a neat trick to keep the PDF-demanding crowd...

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Ask YC: tracking events platform and no-code workflow

Hi -I have an app. Certain stages of the funnel require some action, like send text, send email, call certain endpoint.Instead of building everything in code, and for the sake of quicker experimentation (changing copy, adding notifications, etc), I'd like to use some "out of the box" solution:1. A platform that I can send events to. I anticipate about 1,000 events per day.2. Be able to create...

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Ask HN: Multi-tenant headless CRM with workflows and automations?

We are working on a product that could benefit from basic CRM functionality, like Leads and Contacts records, Marketing workflow automations (like webhooks, events), templates (emails, text messages), report, etc. Also, multi-tenancy, as I'll need separate namespace/environment for each customer of mine.I prefer not to build it myself, but focus on a product where we actually can add value...

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Ask HN: Do you log your customer activity data?

Do you log your customer activity to any of the log management platforms, like Splunk, Datadog, Papertrail, Sentry, etc?We do, and most of that data is focused on errors (eg., already registered, bad credit card, etc), although we do about 30% of events like "quote requested", clicked "sign up", etc).We ended up creating a "sidecar", that processes the event, checks again our CRM in place...

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Interesting you bring this up. Actually, our implementation was intentionally de-coupled from the product and it's based on auth API endpoints. (So yes, for something beyond basic conditional logic, this needs to be enabled first.)

Before a call, this diagram comes with manifest of what data has to be supplied into it. So once it's called, all prep data is there. Whatever happens inside is data manipulation and some basic operations. The output of it is also described in the contract.

Very similar to how customized pricing/rating engine might work (as, in fact, I was PM for one of such).

Your project seems fun, too. I'm pretty sure you are going after some specific use cases.

Ask HN: What do you think about business logic to code execution?

We've built an internal tool that allowed our business owners to create and edit the logic, that becomes executable, and no longer depends on engineering resources to modify.Here is an example of what we use for business logic on selecting a driver for delivery from the pool (it is slightly simplified - it's essentially the set of basic operations, ifs, cycles, and set of input data, process...

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Thanks for responding.

What is custom NTP in browser?

And what do you define as “first access” problems ?

Ask HN: Do you spend more than 2 hours per day in any SaaS or Web service?

Does your work need you to spend more than 2 hours per day in SaaS or Web-based service (either commercial, open-source or proprietary)? Dashboard, CRM, CMS, SIS, etc.Any role: marketing, sales, operations, product, project, support, etc - all of you are using some form of SaaS product.I have built a prototype of a service that might save you 5-25% of your time, service-agnostic. If we can't,...

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use any CRM with your startup? on Thursday November 05, 2015 @03:38PM (#10515965)
How do you sync it with your service? Or do you keep copy of the contacts info in both locations?

Ask HN: Do you use any CRM with your startup?

I'm wondering if anyone is using any type of CRM with your startup/service? Would you mind sharing? Your startup, and CRM that you use, if any?How do you deal with sync'ing client data between your platform and CRM? What do you use CRM for? Email followups? Reporting?Thank you!P.S. As of myself:1. Yes, we use CRM with our service. 2. We use ZohoCRM. 3. We sync data from our system to Zoho....

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How to read Launch Ticker for free?

I personally love Launch Ticket http://launchticker.com/ however with it now becoming a paid-only service, some people might find $10-25/mo to be too much to digest.Solution? Use Google. Search for stories in the last 24 hours and sorted by date. It's missing the ease, look & feel of Launch Ticker, however still is a good source of information http://bit.ly/1u3UX0O

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Ask HN: "Fake" users and activity for your startup

Hi -I am running a service for new online communities and Web sites to "fake" users and their activity on the site. Basically, we act as content "filers" as well as early stage user study.I don't have a large team to scale, so we don't advertise, but we have quite a few requests so far.I'm wondering how many of you would be interested in getting this for your startup or community? That would...

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Re:Ask HN: have you chose HTML5 over native app? on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:16PM (#5882235)
- So do I understand you correctly, you have both the mobile friendly Web site and native app?

- Are you monetizing your native app or is it "buy 1, get 2nd free" type of a thing?

- Why do you need mobile app at all?

- Is your native app only to gain more market traction, or it actually can do something Web-version cannot?

Ask HN: have you chose HTML5 over native app?

Dear fellow HNs -I am looking for real world examples of developers choosing HTML5 over native app (or vice-verse). I would appreciate you sharing with me some of your experience with this choice.It would be helpful to know:1. What kind of an app? (Ie. game, service, standalone or extension to Web site, or existent product - anything about what is it and why do you built it.)2. What did you...

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Sure thing, I gave it a try, however you can only contact 6-7 people per day, with so far my success rate of those willing to talk is next to nothing.

Ask HN: how to do market research in the markets that you are new to?

I'm in customer discovery phase, building a product for eBay sellers, both professional and not.However, I'm struggling to reach out to them - very few of my friends do it.How do you reach out to markets that you are not in and/or very new to?P.S. And if you are an eBay seller, please, please! let me talk to you for 15 minutes - I just need your Skype or phone # http://bit.ly/X2vIMA

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Ask HN: SMB employees management, invoicing and accounting, one-stop shop?

A friend of mine runs a small shop, where he and couple of his employees/contractors do the job.He lands a client, gets himself on retainer or on hourly rate, sends invoices out every month, tracks invoices as paid or non-paid, manages his bank account and distributions - essentially he needs to have a good understanding of P&L at any given time, as while he does some work himself,...

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas? on Monday October 29, 2012 @05:10PM (#4714474)
I run a custom site that I share with a limited group of partners/friends with a rating system where everybody can rate/comment on my ideas. I'm not the only one who posts ideas though.

P.S. Wanna invite? Email me why.

Re:Ask HN: Where to get ideas? on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @10:43PM (#2469268)
Let me put it this way - a good idea is 30%. A bad one - is none. That's why there are a lot of crappy ideas, and people are constantly looking for something good.

Ask HN: Where to get ideas?

Hi everyone,I am confident that I have no problems to execute any idea. I have a team that is very engineering oriented and very responsive, and I'm engineer-made-to-product guy myself. I have a good enough networking to take of. However, I feel I lack ideas to work on right away. I should acknowledge that I'm picky about ideas. I'm looking for B2C with millions of users. (I'm not sure if...

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Re:Analytics services: should I pay? on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:44AM (#1823571)
Can't you do the same with Google Analytics?

Ask HN: Customer discovery among companies that are sending emails to costumers

Hi!I'm working on discovering the potential group of customers for the product that I'm working on. This is going to be some form of a communication platform, that is easily accessible and configurable by non-technical people, that will also provide an extended set of tools to optimize your messaging. It sounds awkward, but this is just what I'm starting from. :)http://bit.ly/bDe4n7If you are...

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