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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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Post by lancesells »

echelon wrote: post #14
napworth wrote: 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.

We're running out of fresh, drinkable water. Fetch me the AI!

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

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Post by jasonwcfan »

ghiculescu wrote: post #26

I might be a bit confused here. Is this just for open source projects (and companies built on top of them)? Or can I use it for internal repos? I’d love the latter use case. A bot that scanned our internal engineering chat and answered our own team’s questions. I can provide many examples. The difference is we don’t have public API docs. Instead we have code comments + confluence (reluctantly) + readme files in GitHu…

We started with external docs because it was easier to ingest them add make it useful immediately, but we're definitely thinking about internal use cases too.

In theory this should work just as well on Confluence as on Github - we'd love to try it out soon.

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

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Post by jojosbuddy »

samstave wrote: post #16
tln wrote: 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.

Makes a lot of sense. But beware you're up against attorneys: no one wants putting their sensitive info in a common report for example. Paper files in a vault is "tangible".

I tried to do this decades ago in hollywood (top media company) using DAM/AssetMgt tech and ran up against the entire attorney corp being protective of their deal notes/documents both for confidentiality with the talent and to monopolize their connection to that talent (only they can negotiate) aka gatekeepers. They purposely wanted "islands" of data. Likely similar for any legal outfit in a global 2000.

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

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Post by jasonwcfan »

swyx wrote: post #31

congrats on launch! i'm exploring vector database alternatives - any painpoints/wishlist items you care to mention with Weaviate?

We actually migrated from Pinecone to Weaviate and it's been great far and I definitely recommend it. Top 2 features are: 1) the way they handle class properties is super intuitive and allows you to configure which properties to index, and 2) the cross-referencing feature which gives you relational DB like features in a vector store. Major props to Bob and the team, they've also been super helpful answering our questions.

The main painpoint is probably around the UI for their cloud version. The web interface is not great, but if you do most of your testing with the client libraries it works very well.

As for wishlist - maybe I'm biased but ironically the docs could be better haha it's a bit difficult to find what you're looking for sometimes.

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

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Post by 6510 »

gregschlom wrote: post #23

OT, but the Youtube's auto-generated captions on that video ( https://youtu.be/fPhP1325RkI ) often mis-transcribe "sidekick" as "psychic" and it's amusing that both can work equally well as a name for this product.

That should be the line -1 support with maxed out hallucinated responses.

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

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Post by samtp »

samstave wrote: post #16
tln wrote: 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.

Then you can end up like Donotpay and be in trouble for giving legal advice by a chatbot that is not a lawyer and has no obligation or directive to be correct.
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