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3 months after launching chatbase, some guy offered to wire me $1M to my account after I send him the source code. I ignored him and now he sent this 🤡

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I spent the last 48 hours building on top of the new ChatGPT API. You can now create a custom ChatGPT from the content of your website using ! You can then take that chatbot and add it to any website as a chat bubble. @pinecone @LangChainAI @OpenAI

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“I am gonna build a SaaS tool that lets users build a custom ChatGPT for their data”

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One year ago I launched Chatbase Today it broke $3M ARR Intensity wins

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Built a that lets you create a chatbot from any PDF document. This Demo shows a chatbot that was trained on a document explaining how chatbase worked. @LangChainAI @pinecone @OpenAI Deployed to @vercel inspired by @steventey , @nutlope , @itsandrewgao

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6 Months ago I got my new grad offer from my "dream company" rescinded with tech layoffs. This had a big impact on my mental health and I was about to fall back into depression. I always knew that I want to build a side project to make money online, so I decided that I won't

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Built a that lets you create a chatbot from any PDF document. This Demo shows a chatbot that was trained on a document explaining how chatbase worked. @LangChainAI @pinecone @OpenAI Deployed to @vercel inspired by @steventey , @nutlope , @itsandrewgao

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My goal for 2023 was to hit $10k MRR just surpassed $220K MRR The goal for this year is $1M MRR, here is how I will get there

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@amritsub Yeah i might reply tbh

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1 year

Officially launching ! 🚀 🚀 Create a custom ChatGPT from your website content and add it to your site as a chat widget! Live on product hunt!

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5 months

you wanna see some real speed?

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you wanna see some real speed?

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7 months

Chatbase just crossed $1.25M in life time sales. A year ago I was devastated I didn't get a return offer from Meta. This was the best thing to happen to me. Thank you @sama , @gdb , and all of @OpenAI for building an amazing platform that enables devs to create great products❤️

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1 year

3 months ago I launched to my 16 twitter followers. Today, I have 1,800 customers paying between $10 and $399 every month. It's been such a grind that I didn't have any time to celebrate this or even process it. But here's how I believe I got here:

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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1 year

✨ Sold $135,000 (USD) in "custom ChatGPTs for your data" with since launch! AMA!

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1 year

I spent the last 48 hours building on top of the new ChatGPT API. You can now create a custom ChatGPT from the content of your website using ! You can then take that chatbot and add it to any website as a chat bubble. @pinecone @LangChainAI @OpenAI

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now supports more file types! (.pdf, .txt, .doc, .docx)

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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1 year

just broke $60k MRR! After my new grad offer was rescinded, my target for 2023 was $10k a month. This is crazy. New goal now is $1M ARR, let's see how it goes.

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5 months

Signed our first enterprise client at Chatbase! 🎉

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1 year

Here is a full walkthrough of ! Chatbase lets you create a custom ChatGPT from your data, customize its UI, and embed it on your website as a chat bubble or an iframe! Here is how I created the chatbot for Chatbase! Chat it on

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We don't have a single sales person

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8 months

Tomorrow's @OpenAI event is both exciting and scary for me. Leaks show that they added a bunch of features to ChatGPT that compete with Chatbase. If that's the case, the obvious reaction would be to panic, and maybe I should. But I am optimistic and I think this will just

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1 year

You can now create your custom ChatGPT with your data on , then send it to someone to chat with it without requiring them to login!

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1 year

Introducing Naval GPT: Chat with @naval about health, wealth, and happiness! This was created by embedding Naval's ideas and storing them in @pinecone then using @OpenAI 's GPT-4 to get the answers. @LangChainAI Built using

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3 months

Very happy with my wrapper today

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People who say this never built businesses themselves They're right that the technical part might not be the hardest in AI because models are trained already for you to use But the difficulty lies in distribution (getting users), user experience/interface (do ppl like to use

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Never thought @OpenAI 's announcement will have this effect on Maybe OpenAI didn't kill all AI startups after all. They just gave them the tools to create amazing products that will feel like magic to use.

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7 months

every ceo should strive to be loved by his employees so much that they’re willing to quit their $1m/year jobs to support him how did sama do this?

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1 year

You can now chat with books! In this Demo I upload @naval 's book to and ask it questions. Try this chatbot here: I want @thesamparr and @ShaanVP to see this

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5 months

doing my part to get @sama his $7 trillion 🫡

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1 year

My setup to get to $60k MRR

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1 month

POV: you're a 1 year-old bootstrapped startup with a $150B company targeting your keyword

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1 year

I have been working heads down for the last 2 weeks on . Now you can add multiple sources (documents, text, websites) to one chatbot! Here I add 'A Dance With Dragons' the book (1040 pages) and the wikipedia page. Stay tuned for more features!

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1 year

Today is my birthday. Today is also the day hit $12K MRR. My goal for 2023 was $10K! 🥳

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1 year

I have been working for 2 days straight to add this to Chatbase! now lets you create a custom ChatGPT for your data, add a chat widget to your website, and customize how it looks!

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@yasser_elsaid_

8 months

It's now been 1 week since @OpenAI announced GPTs Here is how it affected Chatbase in the short term, what my plan is in the long term, and advice if you want to build an AI wrapper startup.

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1 year

now has an API to create chatbots and chat with them! You can give the API a URL or text and Chatbase will create a chatbot for you based on that content. You can then use the API to chat with it! @LangChainAI @pinecone @OpenAI

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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1 year

I built a GPT-4 PaulGrahamAI to give you startup advice! No sign up required to use it! The chatbot uses the content on @paulg 's website plus GPT-4 to provide answers with the sources. Built using

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@yasser_elsaid_

4 months

-> Vercel -> Stripe -> Supabase and now -> Chatbase

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1 year

You can now create a custom ChatGPT for your website with without worrying about usage! Chatbase added bot detection, rate limiting, and an unlimited plan where you can add your own OpenAI API key.

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1 year

A group of UC Berkeley students copied the frontend of word for word at a hackathon. They were top 10 finalists and then got caught. If they had won, they would've gotten $200K in investments! Here are some screenshots:

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@yasser_elsaid_

6 months

How to get 1k followers in 1 day: Say MRR 3 times in one tweet

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My goal for 2023 was to hit $10k MRR just surpassed $220K MRR The goal for this year is $1M MRR, here is how I will get there

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My story of building Chatbase is featured on @indiehackers ! The indiehackers community inspired me to start building side projects and it's an honour to be featured! This is my interview with @ChanningAllen :

How a college student reached $64,000/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover

Just a few months ago Yasser Elsaid was in his 4th year of college, interning at FAANG companies like Meta and Tesla. Then he placed his side hustle in...

www.indiehackers.com

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5 months

❌ $5000 MRR ✅ 5000 paying businesses

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11 months

is a rocket ship. it just crossed 2M visitors! I added a lot of highly requested features recently, like: . Slack integration . Collect leads and customer info . Export conversations and leads . Better results with gpt-3.5 and gpt-4 More to come!

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1 year

You can now create a custom ChatGPT from you website content on and customize the chat widget by adding a logo and a name! This is me customizing the chat widget for Chatabase! #openai #llm #langchain #pinecone #GPT4 #ChatGPT

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1 year

✨ New Feature ✨ You now control what pages to include from your website in your custom ChatGPT! Chatbase will crawl any website for you and show you the links it found. You can then add or remove links to control what your chatbot will learn!

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7 months

Made this notion board exactly 1 year ago for my 2023 goals. Crushed the first 3 goals. Made some progress on the last 3 but not enough. Will aim higher for 2024 and post about it.

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1 year

New feature! Add a sitemap and get a ChatGPT-like chatbot that can answer questions about the content of your site!

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8 months

I am ready 💪

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1 year

Here is how you can turn any website into a chatbot: 1. Go to 2. Enter the website URL 3. Profit?? In this demo I turn @naval 's website into a chatbot and ask it some questions. Chat with it here:

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9 months

Chatbase's growth was very overwhelming. 5 months in we were doing $1M in ARR. I have been doing 10-12 hour days for the last 8 months just to keep up. But it's the most fun I've ever had. It's even more fun now that I was able to hire amazing people. This insane growth made

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8 months

Here is my product launch strategy that got me over 220,000 sign ups: 1. Build hype: This is easier said than done. Easiest way to do this if you don't have an audience is to ride an existing hype wave. In my case that was AI and LLMs. Riding the wave means building a product

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11 months

Tweets from 3 months ago made it sound like AI agents will be running the world today. I don’t think I saw a single practical application of AI agents so far.

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1 year

just added a Zapier integration! You can now connect your custom ChatGPT on Chatbase to 5000+ apps on Zapier (Whatsapp, Discord, Slack...) I just used it to add ChatbaseAI to discord!

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8 months

This OpenAI update might even be good for . The market for “Chat with PDF” just blew up with this change. Many people didn’t know chatting with PDFs is possible but now they do. Some will be happy with OpenAIs implementation, but power users will be need

PDF.ai | Chat with your PDF documents

We built the ultimate ChatPDF app that allows you to chat with any PDF: ask questions, get summaries, find anything you need!

pdf.ai

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I'm optimistic about ! Because I don't think ChatGPT will ever implement small PDF-related features that customers desperately ask for. Sure, I believe small players will go away or not even want to get started, and big players with VC money will die once

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9 months

3 months ago I did my first hire for and I stopped being a solopreneur. Today, Chatbase has 5 full time employees and we're planning to add 2 more this month. All bootstrapped. Working with people that are better than you in what they do is great. Much

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1 year

More than 400,000 people have visited since launch 3 months ago. 1,800 are now paying customers. Crazy.

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1 year

Major update to fight hallucinations! You can now revise wrong answers provided by your chatbot. Go to the dashboard, then click 'revise answer' on the incorrect response and change it to the correct answer. Now it can answer the question correctly!

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1 year

I disappeared from twitter for a week to focus on integrations. Now we have a WordPress plugin and a Zapier integration Slack, Shopify, Messenger and Whatsapp integrations are coming very soon!

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1 year

One of the most requested features on is finally ready! You can now manage the data of your custom ChatGPT by adding, removing, and replacing sources. Here I add The Black Swan by @nntaleb as a source!

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5 months

the characterai subreddit is a glimpse of a very scary future

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1 year

Just realized that just blew past 1M pageviews! 🤯

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8 months

AI founders convincing themselves this is good for their business (I am one of them)

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6 months

We need a new 22 year-old steve jobs because all these AI launches are not it

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1 year

I made several posts about on r/saas that are in the top 10 most upvoted posts of the year. Here is how to market your products on reddit:

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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OpenAI's DevDay was the biggest ad for Chatbase. It introduced the concept of custom AI chatbots to a huge market. Many people wanted to use GPTs on their website and have customer support, lead gen, and user engagement features. They then found

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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@yasser_elsaid_

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My goal for 2023 was to hit $10k MRR just surpassed $220K MRR The goal for this year is $1M MRR, here is how I will get there

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1 year

Celebrating passing 2000 paying customers who used to build a custom ChatGPT for their data! 🥳

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1 year

First paying customer 20 min after adding paid plans on 🎉

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1 year

Created a page for feature requests for ! I will do my best to work on the most upvoted requests. You will also find the roadmap on the same page. Feature requests page:

Feature Requests | Chatbase

chatbase.canny.io

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Chatbase logo makes an appearance at @vercel Ship!

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1 year

So, I just created a custom ChatGPT for using . Chatbase just crawled the website and created chat bubble that can answer any question about the content of futuretools! Let me know if you want this @mreflow !

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1 year

You can now create a custom ChatGPT for your data with , add it to your website, then see how many people use it and the conversations they have! If the chatbot doesn't know the answer to one of the questions, just update the data it was trained on!

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8 months

When I first launched 9 months ago, it was a very basic (and probably the first) "chat with pdfs" app. I knew there will be a lot of tools like this coming up and I decided to build a more complete tool that handles customer support and lead generation

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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@yasser_elsaid_

1 year

Built a that lets you create a chatbot from any PDF document. This Demo shows a chatbot that was trained on a document explaining how chatbase worked. @LangChainAI @pinecone @OpenAI Deployed to @vercel inspired by @steventey , @nutlope , @itsandrewgao

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Holy shit this took longer than expected. Chatbase is now fully GDPR compliant and we now have a trust center: Next stop is soc2 compliance

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1 year

One of the most requested features is ready! You can set your chatbot to collect customer emails! You will see their email with their chat in the chatbot dashboard.

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@yasser_elsaid_

9 months

Churn for all the new AI startups is brutal. Many are just excited about AI and just want to play with it for a few weeks. Churn was at 22% in the first few months of Chatbase. Now we're down to 13.5% as we are trying to not be a 'just a ChatGPT wrapper' and add more features

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1 year

Just hired someone to help with ! Chatbase is now my first project to grow beyond 1 person🥳

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now stores responses to common questions in a cache store. If a question was asked to your chatbot before, the bot will respond very fast and it will not count as a message credit!

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8 months

I should have created folder " @OpenAI gives startups 1000+ possibilities" Back to the drawing board. Agents are coming to Chatbase!

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@yasser_elsaid_

8 months

I am ready 💪

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Now you can chat with your data through an API. Just go to , upload a document with your data and get an API endpoint to chat with it and add it to your website! @LangChainAI @pinecone

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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1 year

New feature🥳 You can now choose to preview your chatbot's initial messages to your users once the page loads!

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I spent the last 4 months having on average 3 interview calls every day. Doing all of this meant that I haven't been updating our customers on our progress or sharing our build in public updates as frequently as i'd like. But now we have a team of 10 great engineers that are

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Another thing to learn from athletes is the specificity principle. When you want to get good at a specific event, your main focus in training is that event. Many entrepreneurs think that doing random things like going to networking events or doing 2 years at a corporation will

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There is so much entrepreneurs can learn from olympic athletes. In training camps, everything outside of your training is taken care of. 3 meals a day, laundry, cleaning, and a personal trainer. The only thing you worry about is your training. If you want your best

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It is really hard to keep up with all the AI hype. I spent the last 3 days focusing on making better and took a break from twitter. Expect many new features this week!

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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9 months

✨ New features 1. Answer confidence scores: Chatbase now gives every answer in your dashboard a confidence score so you can filter the low confidence answers and 'revise them'. 2. Whatsapp integration: you can now connect your AI chatbot to a Whatsapp

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

www.chatbase.co

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There is so much entrepreneurs can learn from olympic athletes. In training camps, everything outside of your training is taken care of. 3 meals a day, laundry, cleaning, and a personal trainer. The only thing you worry about is your training. If you want your best

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One of the best things you can do with your time now is learn how to use OpenAI products to their full potential. Custom chatbots, ChatGPT plugins, agents with memory. Hundreds of businesses are getting built based on these ideas. Learning this stuff might change your life!

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1 year

New feature ✨ You can now edit the chat bubble icon of your custom ChatGPT on your website!

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1 year

Back with the new features videos! Now you can set your chatbot to collect the contact info of your customers. You can choose to collect name, email, and number. You also get to customize the title and labels of the form so it can match your brand!

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6 months

Will quote this tweet January 1st 2025 with the results and learnings. Wish me luck🙏

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1 year

Watch me turn supertools (a free AI tools directory just released by @rowancheung ) into a chatbot with and ask it a few questions about the best AI tools! @TheRundownAI

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Major updates for ! The character limit per chatbot has increased for all plans to 11M characters! We now have an add-on for extra chatbots. If you already have a subscription, check your account page to see your increased limits!

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1 year

Last week I saw @dharmesh talking about vector embeddings on MFM. So I decided to use @LangChainAI & @pinecone to create a Dharmesh chatbot that can give your life/startup advice! Chat with Dharmesh:

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1 year

I should be held criminally responsible for creating chatbase 🤡

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10 months

✨ New features ✨ 1. Notion integration: You can now import notion pages into your ChatGPT-like chatbot as data sources 2. Notifications: Get daily emails with all conversations and leads collected by your chatbots 3. Better responses and reduced

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@idanmasas I will make a detailed tweet about this but the summary is: 1. In the beginning it was a lot of social media and paid sponsorships with pages on linkedin to take advantage of the hype 2. Now it's more sustainable with organic traffic from SEO and ppc ads 3. Next I am planning

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#buildinpublic stats one week after launch: 🎉 32,000 visitors 🫅 6,338 signups 🤑 72 active subscribers 💸 $1,240 CAD MRR ($922 in real money)

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1 year

GPT4 will be a game changer for "Chat with your data" apps. It is much better at following instructions to only use the provided data to produce an answer. Also much less likely to hallucinate. Expect it on soon!👀

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6 months

We're hiring a UI/UX designer at If you're interested, please send me a dm with your portfolio

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1 year

Imitation is a form of flattery

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First paying customer 20 min after adding paid plans on 🎉

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@yasser_elsaid_

3 months

We've been working very hard at Chatbase on the team accounts feature and on transferring existing users to team accounts. This will allow you to create multiple teams and invite others to your team with different user roles. This change will be followed by a pricing change to

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Yasser

@yasser_elsaid_

4 months

@sama after killing a few dozen startups and the stock video industry

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