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I built my first indie hackers project ❤️

Aimply briefs is a free personalized AI newsletter than improves as you use it. It takes in a text a description of you are and the kind of content you want to bootstrap its content. It's also hand-checked by humans for factual accuracy.

I'd love any feedback on the product! ❤️

It's available at briefs.aimply.io

on December 22, 2023
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    Congratz man! I build my first one recently too, waiting for IH to verify my account and share my journey with the community!

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      Nice! It didn't take long for me: best of luck!

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    It's a wonderful idea, I love it.

    Wish you success on this

    And make sure you make it affordable for we baby in tech to enjoy too

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      Thanks! It's free so not a problem there

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        Oh that's awesome 👍

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    Nice job, Evan! It sounds like you've ticked all the boxes. I'm sure your project is going to be a huge success!

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      Well I don't know haha - it's B2C so I think most people would tell me it's not great for making money. Solid chance I just lose cash on it

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        At least you're aware of now. Keep on that way

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    That's cool, wish I could join the discussion, but clicking on join the beta just jumps to a banner on the home page, didn't make the signup

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      Ah I pushed a change yesterday that I think broke on a couple of browsers :( thanks for calling this out!

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    interesting, does each user have a model or algorithm that updates based on their preferences?

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      Nope, the ranking is done with a normal recommendation engine ranker, but I did bootstrap the data with an LLM. It's neat how LLMs make traditional ML more possible in interesting ways (played around w/ a 0-shot ranker too but not much luck there yet)

      Honestly the recommendations still aren't great but they'll get better as I get to the 100s-1000s of users range

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    This is cool, great idea

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      Thanks! If it seems useful to you, would love to add you to the steering group to help dictate the product direction

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        Yes please, would love to join! Thanks.

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      Thanks! Be sure to sign up & check it out! :)

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    Very cool stuff Evan! There's like a thousand bajillion newsletters out there now so having one curated for the user seems like a nice idea.

    This is different from what you guys have worked on but it would be cool to have it synthesize a couple creators' newsletter together for the user.

    (Also the email beta button probably need some padding 😅 I'm on mobile safari)

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      Ooo thanks for the tip, I just changed the button and forgot to give it a multi-browser pass!

      I know Tibo's newsletter product aggs newsletters. I was more interested in normal news/web sources, but maybe I'll add newsletters in the future too!

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    this is interesting, i was working on an AI news product previously also. i signed up, but i was concerned about the typeform form. like i want to see more stuff before investing in filling out a form with info.

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      Thanks for the feedback. Yeah totally! I think I'll invest in sending a sample brief to people once the backend is all set up

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