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Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

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post #11

This is what I'm using Hacker News for. It doesn't require an app, it's super fast, the curating is done by real people (not by AI), and often the comments add a lot of value to the discussed article.

I tend to find substantially more value in HN comments than in the posted articles.

Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

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post #25
post #11

This is what I'm using Hacker News for. It doesn't require an app, it's super fast, the curating is done by real people (not by AI), and often the comments add a lot of value to the discussed article.

We check hackernews every day too but often have a hard time exploring specific interests that are not currently trending. You're right though, the community/comments add a ton of value and its something we're thinking on.

the tool should be on the open web as a primary, not closed off in a walled garden mobile app.

Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

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I really like this concept. What's the advantage of using your app instead of using ChatGPT etc to surface this kind of content?

I get you have this 'curated' dataset but how much better than a good prompt for ChatGPT do you think this is?

(not intending to be negative, I'm genuinely curious)

Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

#35

I've wanted something like this for a long time! Waiting for the android /browser release!

I'm sorry we don't support those yet! Can you send me an email @ jeremy@browserbuddy.com so I can shoot you an email when we have a browser version?

Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

#36

I really like this concept. What's the advantage of using your app instead of using ChatGPT etc to surface this kind of content? I get you have this 'curated' dataset but how much better than a good prompt for ChatGPT do you think this is? (not intending to be negative, I'm genuinely curious)

Our goal with our dataset is to only focus on the personal web. The search APIs that LLMs use rank a lot of SEO/commercial content highly that we were not interested in

To measure that we do better here, we made evaluations based on how real people recommend websites on their blogs/writing/articles. For example, we tend to surface https://every.to/p/invisible-details-of-interaction-design rather than https://userpilot.com/blog/interaction-design-principles/ when searching for advice on getting better at interaction design.

Re: Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

#38

Browser* Buddy *Not available in a browser.

We're working on porting the recommendation system to the web but our landing page now has the "essay search" part of the mobile app for you to try!

https://www.browserbuddy.com/

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