1. Pick an existing problem with existing customers.
Look for time sinks, spreadsheets, and hacked-together workflows that people already pay to solve.
Don't try to invent smth never seen before if this is your first startup. You're either a genius or it's not going to work, and it's most likely the latter.
Nov 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
When I saw @sama announce GPTs I didnt know what to feel and how this would affect Chatbase.
I knew Chatbase had some differentiating features which make it tailored more towards customer support and lead generation, but:
May 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I made several posts about Chatbase.co on r/saas that are in the top 10 most upvoted posts of the year.
Here is how to market your products on reddit:
1) Avoid the 'Here is a tool I built' posts.
This might work if your idea is super creative and you're lucky, most of the time you will just get downvoted to oblivion.
Expect many comments saying: "How is that different from ...."
May 2, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
3 months ago I launched Chatbase.co 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 was one of the first 'Chat with your data' tools.
So LLM hype + good video demos (screen.studio by @pie6k ) meant there was a high chance of going viral even with no audience, which is exactly what happened to my first 4 tweets about Chatbase.
Feb 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 chatbase.co
Soon you'll be able to submit a link to your website and make a chatbot trained on all the text on it.