How I Turned My SaaS Newsletter Into An AI-Powered Product
Intro
"Is your goal to write, or is your goal to inform?"
As an author of a newsletter, I often struggle with this question.
I found there is a balance between writing new content and actually informing a reader's decision.
To achieve the latter, I'm focusing on decreasing the "time-to-insight" for my audience.
Here's how I'm doing that using generative AI.
Running a SaaS newsletter:
For context, I run a curated newsletter called SaaS Weekly.
Every Friday, I package strategies from operators and investors on how to grow a B2B SaaS company into an easy-to-read email.
Simple concept. But I wanted to take that one step further.
The value I provide through curation is surfacing the signal (information that is impactful) from the noise (fluff pieces that add little value).
I also provide short summaries that highlight the key takeaways that I think are relevant to founders and marketing executives.
Here's where things get interesting.
Newsletter 2.0:
I had a simple thought: “What if you could ask questions directly with the articles I curated?"
In my perspective, words are the vehicle to transfer knowledge to the reader.
I just want to speed up that process.
So I built a Chatbot called "Chat With SaaS Weekly," with a single goal: help my audience make decisions quicker by decreasing the time-to-insights when reading new content.
Instead of reading an entire article, readers can ask questions against a selection of them to find the information they are looking for.
Here's how it works:
I took the 1,000+ articles I curated for SaaS Weekly and embedded them into a Pinecone vector database.
Then connected it with the OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 API.
And used ChatGPT to build a React frontend hosted on AWS.
Once a user asks a question, the site queries the DB for relevant articles, then uses them as input to generate an answer.
Want to try it for yourself?
Click the link below and get answers to your most pressing SaaS questions!
This is still the beta version, so would love to hear your feedback.
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