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aschiff1

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    Comment #45093743

    Channel3 | NYC | $120–200K + 0.5–1.5% equity | Full-time Channel3 is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build a database of every product on the internet. Our API lets any AI ap…

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    Comment #44973166

    All in-house! We don't visit sites with paywalls, but we do take lots of measures to avoid rate-limits.

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    Comment #44973158

    Yes, but something like Stripe Order Intents ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQwIZYk9UM ) would obfuscate this poor UX and make it really easy!

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    Comment #44973126

    Would you share more about what data you'd be concerned about here?

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    Comment #44973121

    Thanks for the feedback. We felt that $7 is reasonable. With an average online order value of $180 and average commission of 5%, you need to make just 1 sale in every 1000 to earn.…

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    Comment #44973097

    Exactly! We hope to be able to do this soon.

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    Comment #44973093

    We've spoken with many merchants who are super excited about this use-case, actually! We think the web is opening up – e.g. Exa, Parallel, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, etc. all d…

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    Comment #44973082

    Oops! Responded to the wrong comment. It's just two of us and we're working 120 hour weeks... don't have time for everything! We love feedback, it's super helpful.

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    Comment #44973070

    Yeah, physical products for now. No groceries! We also use vector search + lots of LLMs, but not surprised you'd see funny search results here. We're working around the clock to ma…

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    Comment #44973051

    Thanks for the note!

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    Comment #44967503

    That's a crazy coincidence! Had no idea.

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    Comment #44967499

    Thank you for the feedback. I tried "dog collar" and see what you mean -- looks like the blurry photos are super-zoomed-in headers from the website. For this product (trychannel3.c…

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    Comment #44967471

    Hi, we just pushed up a fix. Looks like our vector results were acting up. Please let us know if you're getting better results!

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    Comment #44967461

    Hi, we just pushed up a fix to search. You should see much better results for "red high top sneakers under $40". The price errors stem from a bad sync between our product database …

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    Comment #44967448

    Hi, we fixed this bug and you should see better results now. I'm getting good results for "men's wallet" and "plain white pillowcase". Try it out and let me know what you think!

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    Comment #44966844

    We love to support our developers! Excited to see your progress

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    Comment #44966833

    Too handsome?