[cddotdotslash]

I’ve seen this argument repeatedly. The example is just that - an example. It doesn’t cover anything related to productionizing the application, dealing with user management, rate limits, cost controls, hosting the service, data persistence, documentation, billing, marketing, or any of the other 100 things you need to do to turn a simple script into a product that people are willing to pay for, trust with their data, and embed into their own websites.

So sure, be shameless, but don’t be surprised when your copy/pasted version of the example doesn’t take off.

[hgsgm]

OP didn't worry about any of that stuff, which is why they got a first mover launch and quick revenue.

[cddotdotslash]

I beg to differ. They worried about marketing (this article is marketing. Their tweets about building it are marketing). And you expect me to believe that they just lumped the example from the docs straight to production? No user management? No website? No auth? Everyone’s data just commingled so the chat bot is responding to user A about user B’s website.

Why does the audience of HN insist on being so dismissive of effort. Yes they moved quickly. No, that doesn’t mean they just copied an example with no other work.

[abxytg]

theres no argument. They productionized a docs example, something I did consider too shameless to try. Wish I had tried. Kudos to this dev he is rolling in the cash.