aschiff1

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Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring(ycombinator.com)
1 points by aschiff1 8mo ago
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Channel3 | NYC | $120–200K + 0.5–1.5% equity | Full-time Channel3 is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build a database of every product on the internet. Our API lets any AI app or agent add shopping capabilities and earn commission on
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Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer, NYC(channel3.notion.site)
1 points by aschiff1 1y ago
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by aschiff1 1y ago
All in-house! We don't visit sites with paywalls, but we do take lots of measures to avoid rate-limits.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Yes, but something like Stripe Order Intents ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQwIZYk9UM ) would obfuscate this poor UX and make it really easy!
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Would you share more about what data you'd be concerned about here?
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We felt that $7 is reasonable. With an average online order value of $180 and average commission of 5%, you need to make just 1 sale in every 1000 to earn.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Awesome!
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Exactly! We hope to be able to do this soon.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
We've spoken with many merchants who are super excited about this use-case, actually! We think the web is opening up – e.g. Exa, Parallel, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, etc. all do the same, and it seems like this agentic future deman
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Oops! Responded to the wrong comment. It's just two of us and we're working 120 hour weeks... don't have time for everything! We love feedback, it's super helpful.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Yeah, physical products for now. No groceries! We also use vector search + lots of LLMs, but not surprised you'd see funny search results here. We're working around the clock to make this better.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Thanks for the note!
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by aschiff1 1y ago
That's a crazy coincidence! Had no idea.
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Thank you for the feedback. I tried "dog collar" and see what you mean -- looks like the blurry photos are super-zoomed-in headers from the website. For this product (trychannel3.com/products/6PYSvW8), looks like we have
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Hi, we just pushed up a fix. Looks like our vector results were acting up. Please let us know if you're getting better results!
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Hi, we just pushed up a fix to search. You should see much better results for "red high top sneakers under $40". The price errors stem from a bad sync between our product database and OpenSearch index. We're working on fixing
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Hi, we fixed this bug and you should see better results now. I'm getting good results for "men's wallet" and "plain white pillowcase". Try it out and let me know what you think!
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by aschiff1 1y ago
We love to support our developers! Excited to see your progress
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by aschiff1 1y ago
Too handsome?