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

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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.

What if the AI can pass the bar, such as GPT-4. When can we allow AI's to be legal experts?

When they get off the drugs and stop hallucinating.

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A quick trademark search with the USPTO suggests that this may not be the best name to use to start a business, as it is already taken in literally every single category that is applicable to this.

Good point - I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.

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

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A quick trademark search with the USPTO suggests that this may not be the best name to use to start a business, as it is already taken in literally every single category that is applicable to this.

What is more, there is already a quite popular, and beloved in the Ruby community, project named Sidekiq - https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq.

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Good point - I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.

I'll second that. Cross That Bridge Now.

p.s. we already have Sidekiq which is quite popular and beloved in the Ruby community https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq

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

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Good point - I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) found themselves in this position bad.

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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 co…

Idk, my attorney friends are pretty darn excited about ChatGPT. The killer app would be LLM + case law database to be able to generate accurate citations in briefs, locate and reason about related cases, etc.

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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 quest…

Thanks, Jason! Very soon, the public beta of the cloud version will be live with a brand new UI, and 100% self-service hosted Weaviates

Awesome! Great to hear :)

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

#79

A quick trademark search with the USPTO suggests that this may not be the best name to use to start a business, as it is already taken in literally every single category that is applicable to this.

What is more, there is already a quite popular, and beloved in the Ruby community, project named Sidekiq - https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq .

There is also another ruby gem called sidekick that I always accidentally install instead of sidekiq and spend 30 minutes wondering why my async jobs aren't running.
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