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by eambutu 1y ago
Great question. We are actually surprised more than anything that existing products aren't better. Other companies' algo work DID get disrupted by reasoning models, because newer models don't care about what the top 3 search
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by eambutu 1y ago
2019-2020: We prototyped lots of telepresence ideas, our work shown here: https://siemprecollective.com/ 2020-2022: We built https://gather.town , which during COVID blew up across every use-case possible: confer
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by eambutu 1y ago
Ah to be clear, the team is staffed well enough on Gather that the experience will be equal, if not better, than what you've been using already. So we haven't been telling customers to migrate (and unfortunately, there aren't
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by eambutu 1y ago
Yep, the other commenter is right--85% is helpful AND accurate. I'd love for you to give it a try and see if 85% is not good enough though. There's always more to push on quality and the more real feedback we get the better we can
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by eambutu 1y ago
Yep, makes a lot of sense. We architected our system to be easy to self-host & open-source in the future for this very reason, though we decided to launch with hosted because it's easier to improve and iterate.
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by eambutu 1y ago
No self-hosted version yet. You would need to trust us in the same way you trust your other SaaS apps that host company IP (e.g. Slack, Notion, Github, etc.) I get that's a big ask from a startup. If it helps, we are a company that&#x2
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by eambutu 1y ago
The Gather work product is unfortunately going into maintenance mode. We still have a strong team working on the core AV and performance, and the business is very decent and more than supports that team (and we still use the Gather product
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by eambutu 1y ago
Our experience, especially with the most recent reasoning models, is that the LLM's are a lot better now at sifting through the garbage. So if you last gave these products a try more than a month ago, I would try them again. (Additiona
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by eambutu 1y ago
Thanks for using it! Any feedback on what could be made better? And did you guys try any of the alternatives before using Grapevine?
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by eambutu 1y ago
Fortunately, Grapevine is just the name of our system, we let people white-label their Slack bot when they actually set it up :)
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by eambutu 1y ago
I can't speak for other people, but our strong opinion about how companies should work is to reduce the massive amount of chores and tedium that exist in our work days today. With the company GPT, we want to tackle things like: 1.) hav
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by eambutu 1y ago
In terms of what businesses we're targeting: we wanted to provide either 1.) a turnkey solution for a company GPT for all the people who don't have it yet, or 2.) a higher quality company GPT for people who do have an internal sol
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Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works(getgrapevine.ai)
73 points by eambutu 1y ago|62 comments
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Grapevine (YC S19) – A Company GPT That Works(getgrapevine.ai)
2 points by eambutu 1y ago|1 comments
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by eambutu 1y ago
tl;dr, We built an internal GPT that connects to all your data sources (Slack, Notion, Gdrive, codebase, etc.) and it works remarkably well. Don’t take our word for it though, you can get set up in under 30 minutes, for free, at https:&#x2
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Loadtesting 40k CPU's in Kubernetes(gather.town)
2 points by eambutu 5y ago|0 comments
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Why the Metaverse Matters(gather.town)
15 points by eambutu 5y ago|5 comments
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Why the Metaverse Matters(gather.town)
15 points by eambutu 5y ago|2 comments
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by eambutu 6y ago
Hey Cory! CEO of Gather.Town here. Connection issues are always our top priority, and at this point, we're chasing down and squashing the last 1% of bugs. If you run into this in the future, reporting a bug will help us solve the issue
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by eambutu 6y ago
As another commenter mentioned, we support this already! It was one of the first features we built, because our first paid customers were academic conferences. You can check it out here: https://gather.town/app/p4B9DUqB
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by eambutu 6y ago
One of the most important features here for work is actually explicitly not doing always-on camera/mic. We have a setting that makes it so that when you're not looking at the tab, no one can see/hear you, but other people can
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by eambutu 6y ago
Yup! Feel free to email us at hello@gather.town , and provide these details, and we'll figure something out.
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by eambutu 6y ago
Thanks for the really thoughtful feedback. I definitely hear this, and I think it would be crazy for us to think that we can build a single tool that will be useful across all ranges of team dynamics and culture. FWIW, just like how compani
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by eambutu 6y ago
I see! I think another angle, is to first create a virtual analog of a workplace, but then since it's virtual, it's super flexible and easy to experiment with. I think there's only so far you can get with these questions, off
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by eambutu 6y ago
Good question. We have made a particular point of not involving traditional VC, at least not at this current moment (and besides YC). We're currently growing off of revenue, and had raised a small amount of money from angels only.
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by eambutu 6y ago
Oh man, thanks for pointing this out. I feel like we got an email once every month asking about something p2p, and was always confused why people kept getting this impression.
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by eambutu 6y ago
We have changed some UI issues with screenshare, and worked a ton on stability, so it might be worth another try! Thanks for the feedback too--it's very helpful for us to know where we might be losing people.
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by eambutu 6y ago
You can join Gather spaces from the phone browser, though it is missing features (most notably, you can't share your own video for performance reasons)
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by eambutu 6y ago
We posted an early prototype of this, https://theonline.town , back in March ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22818300 ). As others have mentioned though, there are a ton of people building similar things.
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by eambutu 6y ago
We're thinking of doing something like this for our team, so people can drink virtual water next to the virtual water cooler. Or, you could go to the bar and buy a drink for a friend!

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