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at Postman, we have a network for companies to reach developers and distribute their APIs on our platform. worth checking out: https://www.postman.com/explore.
you need to handle monetization, but the network gives you eyeballs
Not making a living, but I make about $200/mo from an API that parses recipe ingredients like "2 cups finely chopped onions" into structured JSON.[0] I put it in maintenance mode in 2019, so it's about 99% passive income, as I spend only about an hour or two on maintenance per year. I'm surprised all my clients haven't switched to LLMs, but maybe I still outdo LLMs on price/accuracy since it's so niche. I'd like to s…
How did you find your first customers?
I started as a dev shop and built 2 API products based on user demand. 1 is an OCR and document extraction service [0]. We started with three customers asking for the same services and found none that were really useful (and supported Chinese characters) on the market at that time. Lately the product pivoted to based on (fine-tuned) LLM/VLMs and focus on adding various features that LLM out of the box are missing (fi…
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The whole geo-IP space started back with my startup, Digital Envoy, in 1999 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734355 ). The way we went about it was by providing an API to clients but we actually hosted our entire database (encrypted and in a proprietary format) with clients. The reason for this was for latency (back in 1999 we could get about 0.03ms per transaction something that you can't get on any edge del…
Did running the geolocation service allow you to see otherwise hidden abuses by ISPs and other service providers ? What I mean is: did anything ever break or behave badly ... and then when you investigated you discovered "Oh, look at what these people are doing ..." ?
I started as a dev shop and built 2 API products based on user demand. 1 is an OCR and document extraction service [0]. We started with three customers asking for the same services and found none that were really useful (and supported Chinese characters) on the market at that time. Lately the product pivoted to based on (fine-tuned) LLM/VLMs and focus on adding various features that LLM out of the box are missing (fi…
Curious how you landed on the idea to partner with local GCP/Azure reps. That’s a smart move, I didn’t realize they’d be open to helping. Did you pitch it as a way to help them close deals by offering custom solutions?
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This is included in Microsoft Teams. Will even auto detected who spoke, transcribe, video records and AI summarize it (with defined actions / next steps). You can set it up to auto perform once the first person joins the meeting.
>This is included in Microsoft Teams. This, and there are also 3rd party bots that work with Teams (and presumably other video chats as well) that will join the meeting and do their own transcription. I've seen a couple of on meetings with vendors lately, it'll join and be called something like x company transcription bot .
Only read.ai has webhook support, but all these tools only post notes to integrations. we want the full transcript to generate extract of what we think is important.
Have not tried recall.ai
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Aah nice. I knew about them but did not see they have a desktop sdk
also check out Meeting BaaS (meeting bots as a service), we're an open-source competitor. We thought long and hard of creating an SDK but did not go that route for now. Our main problem is that if you have to support Windows machines you're putting the finger into something really complicated. And then depend on the end user's specs, etc. So I'm really curious, in your case are you planning on deploying to Apple mach…
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Any idea how a company like this would go about building a user base? Would love any sources of how to learn to market something like this.
The whole geo-IP space started back with my startup, Digital Envoy, in 1999 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734355 ). The way we went about it was by providing an API to clients but we actually hosted our entire database (encrypted and in a proprietary format) with clients. The reason for this was for latency (back in 1999 we could get about 0.03ms per transaction something that you can't get on any edge del…
I’m just now really trying to put myself out there and get into sales to further develop our business. We’ve been lucky with some early network sales, but for the next chapter of our business (https://resonancy.io) I need to build the sales engine and I feel very much out of my depth.
Just telling myself its a practice and trying to chip away at it one week at a time.. At this point identifying potential customers and getting meetings is a real challenge. Been trying Apollo and doing cold outreach but is a slow grind. Also trying my best in linkedin..
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>This is included in Microsoft Teams. This, and there are also 3rd party bots that work with Teams (and presumably other video chats as well) that will join the meeting and do their own transcription. I've seen a couple of on meetings with vendors lately, it'll join and be called something like x company transcription bot .
I’ve checked out about 5 of them, I like krisp.ai the best, really nice native experience on mac. We do a lot of team meetings in discord channels. Almost none of them support discord and krisp allows for discord and in person recording. However no webhook in krisp, as team admin, i dont want to have every user configure a zapier integration to get the notes out. then pay for zapier also. Only read.ai has webhook sup…
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>This is included in Microsoft Teams. This, and there are also 3rd party bots that work with Teams (and presumably other video chats as well) that will join the meeting and do their own transcription. I've seen a couple of on meetings with vendors lately, it'll join and be called something like x company transcription bot .
I’ve checked out about 5 of them, I like krisp.ai the best, really nice native experience on mac. We do a lot of team meetings in discord channels. Almost none of them support discord and krisp allows for discord and in person recording. However no webhook in krisp, as team admin, i dont want to have every user configure a zapier integration to get the notes out. then pay for zapier also. Only read.ai has webhook sup…