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PocketBot

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About PocketBot

Vanja Zdravkovic, co-founder of PocketBot. Oxford Engineering student. Building a compile-once consumer AI automation app. Happy to talk agent architecture, on-device compute, iOS dev.

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    The "I'm gonna fix onboarding" instinct is almost always the wrong first diagnosis when users cancel immediately after trying. Onboarding is a funnel problem. Immediate cancels are…

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    Comment #47742037

    Absolutely not, and if you do this then please please rotate keys every day or two.

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    Comment #47733722

    A tough middleground. Someone adaptable who doesn't waste resources and knows precisely what they're trying to build.

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    Comment #47710867

    Anthropic definitely has some paying back to do, it chewed on 50GBP of extra credits like it was nothing.

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    Comment #47707864

    I have never heard someone complimenting claude on frontend lol. To each their own though, fair play.

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    Comment #47707779

    Not trying to advertise us (yes I am) but we had people switching from Hermes to PocketBot. And we are completely free in beta right now (iOS Testflight). Might be worth taking a l…

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    Comment #47707738

    It's as rough as it gets. You really have to know who your customer is. Not as a thesis, but as a proven. If you can find your exact customer base, you will get customers over and …

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    Comment #47707615

    Well PocketBot won't be AI related in a few years. We're using AI with it's only job being to eliminate itself. Automations, using a single simple prompt, fully private, with a mas…