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Great app! I have several uses for this. Some sort of organization of queries into categories would be nice. Most of my queries don't need to be checked every

Great app! I have several uses for this. Some sort of organization of queries into categories would be nice. Most of my queries don't need to be checked every 6 hours. Some are fine being checked weekly. You could have a free tier with limited numbers of queries and 24-hour interval to attract new customers. Someone else mentioned public quereis being free. If I can still get a personal notification for those, then you only spend on sending notifications and not re-running the query for many users. If my needs are served by public queries alone I may not subscribe. I'd weight the risks. Different methods of receiving notifications are usually only needed for enterprises. I'd weight the benefits of doing that for non-enterprise customers because the cost of debugging is high (think hooking that up to AWS SQS or, worse, some proprietary webhook).

CSMastermind 2y ago
> Someone else mentioned public quereis being free. If I can still get a personal notification for those, then you only spend on sending notifications and not re-running the query for many users. If my needs are served by public queries alone I may not subscribe. I'd weight the risks. At a large enough scale I imagine you'd see a long tail effect where most of the queries will be then same and then there will be many queries by one or a few users. Having some kind of dashboard for common queries would be cool.
- gtirloni 2y ago
  Yes, totally agree. But from a business perspective, even though on the backend it's the same-ish query (if they are using a semantic cache), it could impact number of service signups and people who subscribe to paid plans. Just saying this with my amateur entrepreneur hat on.
saran945 2y ago
It's a surprise to see weekly queries. If you don't mind, could you please share one or two examples of these queries? I've added all suggestions from entire thread to my log and will prioritize implementing them. Regarding pricing, I don't know offering a free tier is right approach or not .. I believe that the queries are complex and long. not sure they could be shared among users. Anyways, for next 2 or 3 months its going to be beta. my current focus is adding value, will ask the users about pricing later. Note that, for each question, it crawls 10-15 pages, or even more if you ask to enrich a table. there is LLM cost, now a days webpages are really huge. Thank you again for your input and support. Please let me know if you have any other thoughts or questions.
- gtirloni 2y ago
  > It's a surprise to see weekly queries. If you don't mind, could you please share one or two examples of these queries? I think the one in your demo about the MacBook prices is a good one. Something that fluctuates not every hour/day or at least the user doesn't care because it's going to stay the same for a few days at least.

CSMastermind 2y ago

> Someone else mentioned public quereis being free. If I can still get a personal notification for those, then you only spend on sending notifications and not re-running the query for many users. If my needs are served by public queries alone I may not subscribe. I'd weight the risks. At a large enough scale I imagine you'd see a long tail effect where most of the queries will be then same and then there will be many queries by one or a few users. Having some kind of dashboard for common queries would be cool.

gtirloni 2y ago
Yes, totally agree. But from a business perspective, even though on the backend it's the same-ish query (if they are using a semantic cache), it could impact number of service signups and people who subscribe to paid plans. Just saying this with my amateur entrepreneur hat on.

saran945 2y ago

It's a surprise to see weekly queries. If you don't mind, could you please share one or two examples of these queries? I've added all suggestions from entire thread to my log and will prioritize implementing them. Regarding pricing, I don't know offering a free tier is right approach or not .. I believe that the queries are complex and long. not sure they could be shared among users. Anyways, for next 2 or 3 months its going to be beta. my current focus is adding value, will ask the users about pricing later. Note that, for each question, it crawls 10-15 pages, or even more if you ask to enrich a table. there is LLM cost, now a days webpages are really huge. Thank you again for your input and support. Please let me know if you have any other thoughts or questions.

gtirloni 2y ago
> It's a surprise to see weekly queries. If you don't mind, could you please share one or two examples of these queries? I think the one in your demo about the MacBook prices is a good one. Something that fluctuates not every hour/day or at least the user doesn't care because it's going to stay the same for a few days at least.