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Building a self-maintaining brain for your business. Previously (acquired).

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@celispj @judgeme great stuff. how have you marketed it so far?

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i'll play devil's advocate: we've had cartoon characters in advertising for donkeys. familiarity breeds trust more than "realness".
AI characters with heart and consistent personality can do the job of a human, and i'll think we'll see more AI celebrities, but these will be obviously AI generated with a lot of effort spent developing their personalities

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@thesamparr the last time i looked into oxytocin taking it as a "supplement" didn't work, body only "accepted" naturally generated oxytocin. know nothing about peptides or how that alters oxytocin intake though

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@immad this is the trillion $ question.

reason for 2: agents switching costs are already low

more likely: 2-3 general agents for most things, with lots and lots of vertical agents for specific things. this is kind of the apple/android analogy for mobile

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@arvidkahl @podscanfm @audiohook congrats Arvid, been following the journey for a while well deserved

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@wickedguro @yongfook yeah or multiple products that focus on the same user

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@oldstackjournal build from scratch, we can do that now

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@JoshARosen Postgres for retrieval

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@binji_x The gentlemen s2 so much fun. Guy Ritchie take on breaking bad

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@mewwts I propose we settle this like gentlemen - with a duel

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@wickedguro people forget writing code and engineering are different disciplines. AI solved the first, the second is still pretty hard and can't be prompted into existence without thinking hard about it

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@ElitzaVasileva i know this is purely engagement bait, but it's actually a good question product makers should themselves

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@flexaboiL @nizzyabi i'm building a company brain product and this is the conclusion i've arrived at. i would also give ceo/management their own org brain to help keep eye on things from org level

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@matt_teeixeira @nizzyabi doesn't self organise or maintain itself

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@eptwts still can't fix its bugs without me intervening

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Reading both sides of the Goodreads debate is fascinating for product makers.

My take is Goodreads needs a small update - list building, search, some kind of AI integration as @thesamparr says.

Core is already solved - community, trust, vast reviews. Tinker not overhaul.

[Ayushi Mona Singh @TheMonaFactor]

The only reason I love @goodreads and have spent 17 years on it is because it's protected from product guys with an addiction to changing up things and actually has major league readers.

The last bastion of community, consistency and safety among social networks.

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@HireFireTeam love this and i bet there is going to be value in reusing characters across campaigns. familiar faces people remember across a brand's socials.

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@bscholl Enough space for a 16” MacBook Pro

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@eriktorenberg these things exist as verticals already and that's prob the right shape. it's the sort of thing YC calls a tarpit idea - sounds good on paper but wouldn't work in reality