langtang1996

Hi HN,

Two things inspired me to build this: Andrej Karpathy recently talked about going back to RSS feeds — "higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke" (https://x.com/karpathy/status/2018043254986703167). Around the same time, Marc Andreessen shared his information source: 25% X, 25% podcasts with practitioners, 25% conversations with AI, 25% old books (https://x.com/pmarca/status/2030949039345467570).

This made me realize how much it matters to control what you let in. But I've used to the feed-style reading habit (each social media does like this). I just don't want a random meme or rage bait to hijack my attention out of nowhere.

So I built FeedSense — a private recommendation system. You pick your sources, and it builds a "For You" feed from only those sources. The system takes content quality, publish time, and your read history into account (still tuning it), but it will never surface anything outside the sources you chose

TestFlight beta on iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/56VPEeeS

https://feedsense.cc

Happy to talk architecture or the recommendation approach if anyone's curious.

I'm trying to do email marketing and I have deployed AWS SES, is there any open source project or SaaS to help me send/track my emails? I have over 5000 audiences and it's expensive if I use other SaaS to send/track my emails (e.g. MailerLite)

I developed a SaaS software, which uses Stripe for receiving money and manage subscription, however I found that many users create a checkout session, but do not complete the payment, only about 30% of the users who create a checkout session complete the checkout.

The question is: Is this proportion (about 30% finish the checkout) normal? My app is a web app and only card payment is supported now (My PayPal hasn't been approved for recurring payments). Should I support more payment methods? Are there any recommended payment methods? Or is it that my product isn’t that appealing?

I developed a saas software (https://www.chatpapers.ai), aim to improve reading experience, which has two main features: chat with pdfs & generate mind maps. The question is: Most of my users are interested in mind map generation but not chat with pdfs, many of them type commands in the input area (which is designed to ask questions about the pdf) and try to generate a mind map according to their commands, but this feature has not been developed. How should I improve it?

I have 3 options:

  1. Add intent detection to the chat module, support both mind map generation with commands & retrieve information from the pdf in a same input box, which may increase the latency and take wrong actions.

  2. Remove the chat with pdf feature and turn the product to mind map generation, which mignt strange because the product name is chatpapers.

  3. Design a new product to focus on mind map generation, and keep this product as it is.

Which could be better? Or any other suggestions?

I developed a saas software (https://www.chatpapers.ai), aim to improve reading experience, which has two main features: chat with pdfs & generate mind maps.

The question is: Most of my users are interested in mind map generation but not chat with pdfs, many of them type commands in the input area (which is designed to ask questions about the pdf) and try to generate a mind map according to their commands, but this feature has not been developed. How should I improve it?

I have 3 options:

  1. Add intent detection to the chat module, support both mind map generation with commands & retrieve information from the pdf in a same input box, which may increase the latency and take wrong actions.

  2. Remove the chat with pdf feature and turn the product to mind map generation, which mignt strange because the product name is chatpapers.

  3. Design a new product to focus on mind map generation, and keep this product as it is.

Which could be better? Or any other suggestions?