Viewing profile — acobb99

Hey HN, I was spending about 30 minutes every morning scrolling through Hacker News, opening dozens of tabs, reading comments on stories that weren't even that relevant to me. So I…

This made me laugh. I was thinking more social matching with people not already in your network. For example dating or finding a roommate.

True, but if the dataset already exists, why not use it to benefit you?

Didn't know this but super interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Not that I'm disagreeing with your first line, but is there any business that doesn't exist to separate people from their money?

Some nice ideas. I think recommendations (health, products, news etc.) would be really useful. But you're right, none are as big a market as ads.

Yes I agree. An issue I have is hearing about a future event that has now sold out of tickets because when I heard about it so did everyone else. It's a catch-22. Are you suggestin…

Interesting ideas. So you're learning more towards the recommendations (and eventually agent) use-case. I find having to provide ChatGPT / Claude with context before prompting to b…

Yesterday I had an interesting chat with a friend who works at Facebook. He explained how the company builds a detailed profile on each user based on their activity and then uses t…