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Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by quickthrower2 »

creatonez wrote: post #23

These AI chatbots on websites are beyond useless, and LLMs won't make them any better. When you go to the chat-based support interface on a website, it's usually because you've read the entire contents of the website and didn't find what you are looking for. Now you will just get a hallucinated answer, with no indication as to whether it's a human or AI you're talking to.

Those ones are using inferior models. I am using ChatGPT for a lot of stuff: personal, work, hobbies. Anything where what I say isn’t private. And it is wickedly helpful.

Extending this to sites makes sense. Eventually this service will need to compete against Google or Bing chat based search with regular indexing and it’ll probably get put out of business unless it pivots into tailor made models or something else the big guys can’t offer en mass.

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by quickthrower2 »

nemo44x wrote: post #17

This is really simple to build yourself. Just use SentenanceTransformers in python, pineconeDB, and whatever screen scrape library you line. Chunk your site content before storing in pineconeDB and then search and whatever you get back use as context for the GPT Chat API.

Same can be said about washing dishes, or growing carrots.

This is priced at about 10-20 minutes of a developers time per month.

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by abxytg »

OpenAI provides a demo to do this in their docs:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/tutorials/web-qa-embeddings

IME doing this task the scraping isn't easy to generalize. the embed / chat part is honestly low hanging fruit on top of the openAI api. if you're capable of scraping the content you want to do this with I'd say whip it up yourself. its a 15m project.

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by marktani »

pbteja1998 wrote: post #18
pqdbr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I know it hurts to offer a free trial for something that already costs you money to serve (those API calls won't be free), but it's really hard to sign up without trying it first.

Yes, I understand. I will give you the same option as the previous person. Please give me a sample webpage, just one web page and I will create a chatbot for that webpage, and post the chatbot link here.

I wonder if there is a way to let users generate this one-page demo themselves dynamically, rather than via a manual interaction by you.

what's to say you won't add specific optimizations by hand now that aren't included in the product out of the box?

edit: ah, just saw your other comment about being afraid free trial gets out of hand financially

a solution could be to only allow x number of free tokens for a given demo chatbot

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by pbteja1998 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #42

Any chance of a cheaper plan for those bringing their own api key? And maybe if you get some VC money, a free version for Open Source :-)

I am an indie bootstrapper, so no VC money haha.

Right now, there is no way to add your own API key. I will try to look into this option in the future.

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by pbteja1998 »

marktani wrote: post #46
pbteja1998 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I understand. I will give you the same option as the previous person. Please give me a sample webpage, just one web page and I will create a chatbot for that webpage, and post the chatbot link here.

I wonder if there is a way to let users generate this one-page demo themselves dynamically, rather than via a manual interaction by you. what's to say you won't add specific optimizations by hand now that aren't included in the product out of the box? edit: ah, just saw your other comment about being afraid free trial gets out of hand financially a solution could be to only allow x number of free tokens for a given d…

I understand. In that case, the only way is to subscribe to the $19/month plan and try it out for yourself. You can cancel anytime you like with the click of a button.

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by Syonyk »

That pricing is... yowch.

> Please try it out...

No, thank you. Not for $100/mo without any sort of trial!

It would be marginally interesting to play with it on my ~8 year blog (https://www.sevarg.net), but I have ~300 posts and ~900k words written.

Dumb question, though... if I put all my content into a single page on a subdomain (easy enough to do, I use Jekyll to render my stuff), would the free plan barf on a 900k word document, or would it happily ingest it?

Also, what does "One chatbot" mean? Only one person can interact with it at a time?

Re: Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content

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Post by nemo44x »

camhart wrote: post #39
pbteja1998 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, my target audience are no-coders or anyone who just wants something ready to integrate on their website without handling any infra on their own. Some of the customers I got are non-technical people. So it was perfect for them. They get a very good chatbot even if they don't know how to code.

Any business/website owner who deals with customer support will like it (assuming it works well). My guess is the people on here poo pooing this idea are programmers who don't deal with customer support. Don't let their negative response deter you. Let them be fools.

I’m not poo-pooing it. It’s great to see someone take initiative. I’m just saying if you’re wondering how to use GPT to do this, this is how. Build it yourself in a couple hours or buy the service, I don’t care.

Just sharing the details for those that are curious in how to make their own chatbot on their data.

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