glawrence13

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by glawrence13 1y ago
Sorry to hear that! We're working to make search better, but we still have a long way to go. I'm curious where you felt the biggest pain points with search.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Yep, I should be more precise > If i’m building an ecommerce website, why would I need your API if I’m just selling my own products? You're right, Channel3 isn't for existing ecommerce websites. Channel3 let's anyone build
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We're working to improve search results right now. Bummer the price filter got ignored, we rolled out natural language filter extraction recently, clearly we have a bug there :(
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Developers! Anyone who wants to add shopping to their platform, build an e-comm website, or monetize their agent can use Channel3 to earn commissions on the products they sell. Totally see how that could get lost in this post, we tried to f
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by glawrence13 1y ago
This is definitely one of our hard problems. There are some optimizations -- e-tags / last modified headers, comparing page content hashes -- but there's also only so much you can do before you just have to check the page again.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
All good, not the space we're targeting
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by glawrence13 1y ago
We're adding millions of products every week, so hopefully if you don't see your girlfriend's handbag there today, you'll see it soon!
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Rye is an awesome company! They're in the universal checkout space now, stay tuned for a Rye + Channel3 demo in the next week :) We think the combo of product discovery with Channel3 and universal checkout is the future of commerce. To
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Love this! This is one of the key painpoints we're trying to solve. It takes building in the space to know how hard (/impossible) monetizing products on your site is, but we think once people try to do so, they'll end up buil
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Releasing early vs releasing a polished product is always a tough balance to strike, and I'm grateful for insights like this. Do you have specific queries that missed the mark, or specific problems with the res
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Thanks for the comment. Will shoot you an email!
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by glawrence13 1y ago
haha, no, hadn't heard of them until now. uncanny resemblance though!
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. There are a bunch of challenges with that approach that my co-founder experienced first-hand (actually, that exact workflow is why we started Channel3!). To get up-to-date info, you'd need realtime webse
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by glawrence13 1y ago
We don't currently surface that info
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Appreciate it. FYI, for the specific bugs you flagged, looks like Nintendo was improperly named (reindexing products with that name now), and sounds like the pain point you felt was extraneous search results that really didn't belong.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We're working on improving search, and it's helpful to hear the different ways it's currently coming up short.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. Always a fan of standardization of information online.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Certainly, for end users, foundation model providers (just ChatGPT right now) will be a great option for shopping. But, we don't believe it'll be the only place people shop. With Channel3, developers can build their own agentic sh
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Certainly! Feel free to reach out to me directly at george@trychannel3.com with specific vendors.
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Regarding payments, your understanding is correct. We have and manage our affiliate partnerships, all you have to do is drive sales and we forward on the commission to you. We're working on improving signal into the range of commission
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by glawrence13 1y ago
Not yet, we're working on it though
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Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
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