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by logicalmonster 1254 days ago
> We're building a service that scrapes the internet for data on how others have built successful businesses and uses AI to filter through the information and find the most practical insights.

Are you talking about essentially creating a blog, possibly with a paid member's only section? Not sure that's worth paying money for, but I think that close to 100% of people here would check it out.

I'm skeptical about your comment about using AI to scrape/find/filter the stories. It's going to find a lot of shitty and boring SEO content without intense human curation (probably).
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BerkLee19 1254 days ago
Normally we positioned our service as "our team finds the content and goes through it to find relevant insights".

We only recently started incorporating AI to our pitch but seems like it wasn't a good move.

I really appreciate you taking the time to reply tho!

What are you working on btw?

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logicalmonster 1253 days ago
Personally I'd say to not give up on the idea of creating your own site with these stories. I'd find it useful, particularly with a bit of categorization and analysis, and would check it out. I could be very wrong, but I'd just express a healthy bit of skepticism about it directly being a monetizable business through people giving you money for access or if AI is the right tool for gathering these stories. Indirectly though, there are probably ways to make money off of this such as turning the stories into a nice book with easy to digest chapters on each story or theme.

I don't want to dox myself, but I am working on an online store, hacking away on my main startup idea, currently searching for some kind of full-stack engineering role, and amusing myself (and hopefully others!) by shitposting on the Internet. Thanks.

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