[1] Surveys. Thinking about how to tighten up the onboarding experience, improve brand awareness, improve in-app data analysis, and how to integrate AI in new and exciting ways... and handling customer support tickets!
I've been working on Zigpoll as a one-man project for a while now: https://www.zigpoll.com/ it has traction and solid growth (~100% YoY for the past 3 years) but the larger the numbers the harder it gets to double each year.
In a past life I would have thought this would be the easy part given the product market fit but it's hard to figure out growth channels that are scalable and cost-effective at this stage. Burning what would otherwise be a large salary month on month in search of growth is mentally taxing when it doesn't deliver. Metrics across the board only seem to tell part of the story so it's tricky to figure out what needs changing and what's worth doubling down on.
If anyone has experience doing this sort of thing - please get in touch!
Yeah, I love this stuff! Compiling data from multiple pages into a single paragraph in the time it takes to read one page? Great stuff. I can't imagine living without Perplexity.
Oh, sure, it hallucinates a lot, and in dangerous ways, but even if I have to manually corroborate all the citations, I'm still saving time, especially insofar as it reveals whether or not I'm barking, broadly, up the wrong tree.
It's especially good for comparisons, because the results of two disparate search terms can be collated into the results.
Could this be done without LLMs, but only vector embeddings? Hm, maybe. Algolia is maybe the 80 for 20, but does Algolia have a web index?
Not when it's code that was only hard to write because you needed to know the right incantations to pipe data between different services.
Now you see the incantations that mostly work and the job of transforming it is easy.
Java's Bouncy Castle crypto library is a good example of this. The thing you're trying to do might be simple, but to do it, you might need to instantiate 8+ Java classes. It doesn't mean it's complex to read or hard to debug.
> The thing you're trying to do might be simple, but to do it, you might need to instantiate 8+ Java classes. It doesn't mean it's complex to read or hard to debug.
I’m skeptical that code that needs to instantiate eight separate classes will remain easy to debug in the general case.
LLMs give you a lot of false confidence, just because something looks right doesn't mean it is.
Especially with cryptography you should NEVER use LLMs. Read the docs, write down some notes, and make sure you properly understand everything before you use it. You need to really think it through before you end up leaking user data or worse.
Not 100% on the nose with what you're looking for but I built Zigpoll (form builder for on-site surveys and forms) that may useful: https://www.zigpoll.com/
This is really well made - thanks for sharing (and Merry Christmas)! Small thing: I didn't understand the difference between the white and black options at first. For some reason white was pre-selected so I got confused when nothing was cutting out while drawing for the first time. Maybe a label on hover would fix this while still keeping the clean look?
A label on hover would be nice — or even persistent labels to the right of the circles. I also wonder if instead of black, a dashed outline with a transparent center would make more sense, since you're cutting.
I run a survey platform[0] and I use an LLM to generate insights from open-ended response data. Using it for open-ended response classification as well.
[1]https://www.zigpoll.com
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