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Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

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Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

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You should put a video on the homepage, front and center, of the product in action.

Thanks for the suggestion! Just updated: https://www.getsidekick.ai/

Appreciate how quickly this was done. When I visited the homepage there was already a video, and it made it really easy to understand the product.

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#12
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Interesting you’re using discord instead of Glitter. I’d think an open protocol would help your seo footprint. The only devs I know on discord are crypto and AI generators.

Discord is huge. My experience is that it's way more important than Glitter or Slack for open source development. Even if the platform itself is closed and inaccessible.

I see it used in Rust, Gamedev, AI/ML (as you say), DevOps, JavaScript, ...

Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

#13
post #6

Interesting you’re using discord instead of Glitter. I’d think an open protocol would help your seo footprint. The only devs I know on discord are crypto and AI generators.

Most of Unity Asset Store publishers/devs have Discord communities. I'm the author of OneJS [1] and 90% of my support takes place on Discord. =)

[1] https://onejs.com

Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

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post #3

Wow dude, read the room[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181139

AI is going to eat the world. It's software + functional metahuristics, which enables it to automate an order of magnitude more than we ever have in the past. Any problem we can describe seems tractable in time.

Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

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The point about chatbots lessening the shyness barrier in a public forum is very interesting.

I think just like (imo) much of the value of the data science craze of the last 10 years came not from the final analysis of the data but from inducing businesses to start measuring and storing operational metrics from every corner of the company in a structured way in the first place, much of the business value of ChatGPT will come from things like forcing businesses to start writing and maintaining good quality internal documentation.

The journey of getting your business to a point where AI can be useful for you is itself just as valuable as what AI will do for you.

Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

#16
post #9

Very interesting features! I'm not sure why it needs to be focused on developer docs vs all docs - any reason you decided on that niche? I'd suggest creating a "demo" slack AND discord to try out. Is the demo slack working as intended? I see "Hey there! Looks like I'm not set up yet for this Slack workspace. Please send over a link to your documentation to founders@getsidekick.ai and we'll get you set up!"

If they want to make Unicorn status ; make this for legal.

And even better - make it so individuals can use it for legal documents.

Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the suggestion! Just updated: https://www.getsidekick.ai/

Appreciate how quickly this was done. When I visited the homepage there was already a video, and it made it really easy to understand the product.

It was great feedback. We've been deep in the weeds building so it's hard to pull ourselves up out of the weeds, but for something that reads from and updates documentation it's probably easier to see it in action than than to read about it.

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post #6

Interesting you’re using discord instead of Glitter. I’d think an open protocol would help your seo footprint. The only devs I know on discord are crypto and AI generators.

A lot of rust communities use Discord. Nix community uses discord. Espressif, JetBrains, Blink (ipad terminal app), large FreeBSD community, Planetary, QMK (keyboard firmware)...

I rarely see alive Glitter community, but I see plenty of active Discord communities, so active that I have to leave some of them. Every time I see "ask us on glitter", I'm already made peace with never getting an answer.

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