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You’re about to get ragged on because you posted this to a site full of people who know the limitations of your technology. But that said, assuming this was a
by swatcoder 4y ago
You’re about to get ragged on because you posted this to a site full of people who know the limitations of your technology.
But that said, assuming this was a low-cost/low-risk demo project for your firm, it’s a classic entry in building a little carriage store on the gold rush routes. People (but not HN people) are looking for stuff like this and will have fun with it. It’ll help people better understand the limitations of the technology themselves. If all goes well, you’ll make a little money entertaining curious people and then it’ll dry up. It’s good work as that.
- pksebben 4y agohonestly, the $20/month subscription fee made me raise an eyebrow, especially considering that the likely implementation is "add a prompt that took 5 seconds to write and 20 seconds to tweak to the top of every request".
- toxicFork 4y agoIf the bot needs to retain conversation memory, it will cost around 4 cents per message once the conversation gets long enough. I guess they are also inspired by chat gpt plus prices. Source: I am building a competitor
- pksebben 4y agohow long is that? back of the envelope suggests that breaks even around 500 messages at max price
- toxicFork 4y agoIt's a statistical play - if on average, subscribers send less than 500 messages per month, it's profitable.
- toxicFork 4y agoRegarding how long: it depends on length of messages. But let's say when there are around 2000 words total in the conversation. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-... 2 cents per 1k tokens
- oldlaikman 4y agoI thank for your support and comments. I do not why but people are really mean and, negative comments are okay but some of them just cruel.