shpran

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by shpran 2mo ago
A blog post reviewing brain computer interfaces, succeeding and failing BCI companies, and timelines for commercialization
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by shpran 3mo ago
thanks! I tried writing a program where if it can't find the runway online, then it tries to guess by using other values, clerk is not really in risk of ever running out of money, and so it juste ended up outputting a really high value
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by shpran 3mo ago
good idea, I will roll out tomorrow.
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by shpran 3mo ago
no scraping the yc startups is easy, I've already done that, its just writing and researching the actual profiles uses an internal tool (built into the website,I can trigger it from an admin dashboard) which uses tokens.
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by shpran 3mo ago
Thanks, this is all really interesting feedback, I'm mostly free right now, so il definitely try to roll out these changes soon. probably will announce them on website blog.
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by shpran 3mo ago
I just approved a whole bunch of micro businesses! I do not get payed for this, and these aren't ads, instead I do it so people can find under the radar early companies.
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by shpran 3mo ago
I fixed it
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by shpran 3mo ago
acessing crunchbase even if its the free version with AI agents is illegal since they have a paid API, so I need to manually get it, which is fine for now, but I eventually need to improve the pipeline.
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by shpran 3mo ago
This is pretty early stage, I'm planning on adding more startups every day, il Luma and Saronic soon.
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by shpran 3mo ago
this is pretty early stage and so I didn't want to make a ton of profiles only to have to update them later because of an issue int he generation pipeline, Im planning on adding about 800 startups every day.
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by shpran 3mo ago
just fixed it
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by shpran 3mo ago
hey just checked the pipeline after running, the anthropic profile looks better now. (I will roll out more updates in the next few days to keep improving accuracy)
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by shpran 3mo ago
micro companies aren't added by me, people submit their own, then I go in and approve, haven't gotten any submissions yet, when I do I'll add them in.
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by shpran 3mo ago
just added a agent ledger, it shows exactly what the agents were doing during the pipeline, u can find it at the top of the sources tab. (it truncates part of the ledger sometimes though, working on fixing that bug)
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by shpran 3mo ago
I got the agents to cite sources, there's a bug with fetching the urls from the DB, the way it should work is when you hit verified it leads you to the source, working on fixing it now. Also I will try to add an agent ledger tab soon,
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by shpran 3mo ago
just launched the button, click it, fill out form, il manually go in aprove, and write your profile.
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by shpran 3mo ago
just added roughly 20 startups, focusing on biotech
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by shpran 3mo ago
AI agents have to cite sources for each thing (there's a bug with displaying sources, it should let u click a fact and send you to where the agent got it. I'm working on fixing that right now). Users can also flag errors, and I&#x
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by shpran 3mo ago
Sounds good! its just I used up most of my API key limits in development, and I'm keeping some so I can run improvement pipelines or fix errors, so il batch the YC companies day by day, there's 5000 companies, so il do about 800
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by shpran 3mo ago
AI agents have to cite where they get stuff from, also people can flag issues, and I'm gonna run pipelines periodically to fact check pages. But yeah, with this kind of site I do agree accuracy is gonna take a lot of engineering to imp
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by shpran 3mo ago
yeah, just spotted the error, AI agents seem to be searching for news without adding keywords like "latest", I'm updating that, and changing some system prompts, also adding a fact checking agent, and restarting the server to
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by shpran 3mo ago
As far as I can tell from FAQs on hacker news, if your previous post failed to gain significant feedback (in this case, only 1 user interacted with my old post) you are allowed to repost in 36 hours.
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by shpran 3mo ago
sounds good! il email you soon
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by shpran 3mo ago
that sounds great! would you be more interested in commercializing or making this open source, or a hybrid of the 2
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by shpran 3mo ago
that's a great idea! Il try to add that as a source.
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by shpran 3mo ago
Thank you! I made like an internal admin dashboard where I can send agents to collect tweets, blog posts, articles, etc. about the company. Then using this I can cross reference info, so for example if the CEO tweets they did 5 million in r
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by shpran 3mo ago
right now I haven't added that many profiles because tokens are expensive lol, so please hit the suggest button on the site to suggest a startup
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by shpran 4mo ago
cool idea, adding some more detail at the beginning might be nice, but overall this is awesome.