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2 questions... why AI free? Is it only pulling from reddit, hacker news and stack exchange? I find a a lot of tech discussion has moved to discord, which makes

2 questions... why AI free? Is it only pulling from reddit, hacker news and stack exchange? I find a a lot of tech discussion has moved to discord, which makes it very hard to find... just even looking at your search samples, kubernetes and react both have official discord servers, and i'm sure there's talk about them in countless other servers.

andes314 2y ago
I can implement Discord threads! If anyone has any suggestions of what other threads to aggregate, let me know. The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once. Additionally, I chose to avoid AI as I have picked up from a lot of people that Google’s AI features have more or less ruined it. Do you think there is a way that I could use AI here that wouldn’t ruin things?
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- metadaemon 2y ago
  You may have to start building your own reverse index if you're polling API's at query time
- winddude 2y ago
  "The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once." The solution for that is maintaining and updating an index. (Although that drives up costs.) Google has done a terrible job, but perplexity has done a pretty good job. I think there's quite a bit to be gained by summing/extracting desired information from threads. I'm thinking opinions on choosing tech stacks (eg, "should i use sql or nosql", "fastAPI vs supabase"...), or even fixing bugs (on that note, if you're going after tech, github might be another to look at). I defitley agree there's a ton of noise in discussions, I think LLM's are the current best way to cut through that noise.
  - andes314 2y ago
    I had no intention of making a search engine, I really just envisioned a place to combine threads from different platforms and figured out along the way that it looked exactly like search. This seems to be an overcrowded market so I would be afraid to just "make a search engine". It seems difficult to me at the moment how exactly I can make ThreadQuilt a unique value proposition if I take that route. If AI is the differentiator, then I would absolutely want to integrate it.

andes314 2y ago

I can implement Discord threads! If anyone has any suggestions of what other threads to aggregate, let me know. The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once. Additionally, I chose to avoid AI as I have picked up from a lot of people that Google’s AI features have more or less ruined it. Do you think there is a way that I could use AI here that wouldn’t ruin things?

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metadaemon 2y ago
You may have to start building your own reverse index if you're polling API's at query time
winddude 2y ago
"The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once." The solution for that is maintaining and updating an index. (Although that drives up costs.) Google has done a terrible job, but perplexity has done a pretty good job. I think there's quite a bit to be gained by summing/extracting desired information from threads. I'm thinking opinions on choosing tech stacks (eg, "should i use sql or nosql", "fastAPI vs supabase"...), or even fixing bugs (on that note, if you're going after tech, github might be another to look at). I defitley agree there's a ton of noise in discussions, I think LLM's are the current best way to cut through that noise.
- andes314 2y ago
  I had no intention of making a search engine, I really just envisioned a place to combine threads from different platforms and figured out along the way that it looked exactly like search. This seems to be an overcrowded market so I would be afraid to just "make a search engine". It seems difficult to me at the moment how exactly I can make ThreadQuilt a unique value proposition if I take that route. If AI is the differentiator, then I would absolutely want to integrate it.