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by sand1929 2y ago
Oh interesting, we never actually thought of it that way—we just had a friend design this logo for us and this is what he came up with. And USPTO never complained, so we didn’t think about it too hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by sand1929 2y ago
1) I don't think we'll ever primarily target non-profits (our first customer happened to be a non-profit, but there's just inherently more business in for-profit spaces), but it has been incredibly fun and rewarding to work w
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by sand1929 2y ago
Definitely many thousands, possibly the 10s of thousands depending on what you count as a source (e.g., if you get press releases from one part if an agency’s site, and speeches from another part, one could consider those separate sources I
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by sand1929 2y ago
Yep we get the sources above. We've definitely thought about contract capture--we've just been hesitant because it seems like such a competitive space. But it's definitely tempting, and it wouldn't take much to convince
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by sand1929 2y ago
Honestly, if you or anyone else has a really easy way to get all communications/publications from every government/government-adjacent body, I genuinely would love to hear it. Especially at the regional/local level, cause tho
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by sand1929 2y ago
So we actually have 2 search tools. One is the one you see here, which is made to be less precise, but returns more results and returns them faster. The other sounds more like what you are looking for. It returns a more focused set of resul
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by sand1929 2y ago
Aww, thank you! I'm impressed you even remember us from 2021 haha
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by sand1929 2y ago
Glad to hear it! If you have any questions or need anything, please reach out at https://parsagon.io/contact ! Working with non-profits has been some of the most fun work we've done, so we'd love to do what we can
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by sand1929 2y ago
Thank you! And yeah, getting specialized feeds is one of the main things our current customers do! Also, hope all is well at Laudspeaker :)
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by sand1929 2y ago
Oh whoops, that seems like a bug. We typically show press releases verbatim, but our intention is to just provide the headline, link, and extracted facts for sources like the Daily Mail. Better see what's going on there; thanks for the
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by sand1929 2y ago
Thanks! I think the best thing we do to assure users that we check everything they'd check is that we add requested data sources pretty fast. E.g., one customer wanted to track announcements from the various state/regional commiss
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by sand1929 2y ago
Oh interesting, I'll be sure to look into that! Definitely an intriguing use case
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by sand1929 2y ago
If you're talking about search-as-a-service solutions, we didn't end up using any of them. There were certain optimizations we needed to make to our information retrieval algorithms that were pretty specific to political monitorin
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by sand1929 2y ago
Thank you! It's been interesting to watch HN playing around with it. This community definitely phrases its search queries differently from how many government affairs professionals would (especially to try smoke tests like yours), so I
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by sand1929 2y ago
Yeah absolutely! We have private companies using us right now! (We might have an private NGO as a customer--I'm always a little hazy on the exact definition of NGO) I definitely think we're going to see a lot more people building
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by sand1929 2y ago
News articles, Requests for Comment and similar government announcements, speeches, parliamentary questions, government reports/statements/consultations--a pretty wide variety of sources
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by sand1929 2y ago
Absolutely! We're already doing this with PDFs from legislatures for our tool to track bills, which should be ready soon. Also, thanks, that's great feedback :)
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by sand1929 2y ago
LMAO, this is unironically the kind of feedback I love to see from HN
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Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations
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