Nice article and PostHog is one of my favourite startups to look for especially on the culture side. Your careers page and compensation calculator is a breath of fresh air.
Wow, reading your interview session feels like a knowledge base in itself. Thanks for sharing!
Perhaps these mock interview can be a resource in itself later on?
We're looking to further optimize the prompt and definitely to cross check the facts that ChatGPT spit out (since its notorious to state false information as fact).
Yeah, these interviews can be a knowledge base. You could have links to past interviews by category for people to read through. But do give people an option if they want their interviews publicly listed or not. Great for practice and clarity of thought.
Edit: Just read my own chat again. I did the "interview" quite hurriedly. I can't believe how far we have come with these tools. I think a lay person who is not aware of this technology would not be able to discern that the interviewer is not a human and that's saying something.
Thats a great idea. I'm thinking there's a lot we can do with the idea. Especially through this layoffs season, might be a valuable tool for many.
Re your edit:
I know right! I've built a few thing with GPT-3 before but the ChatGPT API somehow gives a totally different result. Especially in regards to tone.
Slap Whisper API to this, you can practice with your voice and not only via typing.
you could link the knowledge base to ways to answer questions with context or create a fun gamified way to study for interviews, like leetcode but for general interviews
we are on the mission of AI-generated lessons for most content at revision.ai if you are interested in hearing more - you could upload that interview session as a PDF easily
I’d really like to know how much money can be realistically made. I have a niche price comparison website getting around 300k page views monthly. Would it make sense to bother with Adsense at this point since other attempts at revenue have not worked out.
Yes, I’ve seen $2-$20 CPM depending on the niche. I once ran a site for furniture manufacturer part specifications and we were getting $50 CPM. Lasted about a year, was over a decade ago.
It’s relatively easy to setup and monetizes much better than a lot of things.
Thank you, I appreciate your reply. I didn’t expect it to be this much either. Even at the lower end of that range, that’s like USD 500 which goes a long way and will definitely help.
Yeah, there's a reason why AdSense dominates. If you are focused on optimizing your revenue, pretty sure Google dominates.
One other hack - AdSense may limit the number of ads per page, but you can also add in niche networks to increase your ads / page. This was 10 years ago, but I found the best option to be 2x AdSense per page, + 1 niche network. The niche network gave about 25% as much revenue as the 2 AdSense units combined - lower return but was still free money.
Thank you for your suggestions. I will definitely give this a try. Any recommendations for niche network. I keep getting mails from linkbux folks but I have no idea if they are legit or not.
Making simple games (board or pc) for my kids and playing games with them. Knowing that your parents think of you as a good person. Being helpful to others above and beyond. Those are mine that gives me an immense sense of content.
OP, you should charge users a small amount ($24-50 a year), after a trial period. Keep it simple, free of ads and keep the timeline algorithm free.
I’m sure there are many who would love something like this and be willing to pay enough to cover costs and maybe generate a full time income for you. Good luck!!
I wouldn’t pay that much for what this is. I’m sure most of my friends wouldn’t. It’s a neat enough idea that I’d try the free tier, but it doesn’t offer anything compelling enough to make me want to pay for it. I’m not trying to be mean or dismissive; it’s a genuinely cool experiment, and I’d honestly love to see a social network where people actually said longer substantive things rather than low-effort shitposts (or, more and more, just sharing somebody else’s low-effort shitposts).
I don’t like the idea that people can’t see my earlier writings. That’s important to me, especially if I don’t share stuff often and I put effort into it. I don’t see the benefit in hiding that from my friends.
What I’m looking for these days is actual community, conversation, and connection. I think the effortless posting on Facebook/Twitter encourages kneejerk garbage (and blogs, sadly, have fallen into decline) so I really like the more “slow down and make something meaningful” philosophy here. If you can turn that into an actual community—one that offers something Reddit doesn’t—I’d pay for that.
IMO, building a social network is quite difficult nowadays because you can't monetize it right away. So you either have to bootstrap as a side project and build a community for years or getting paid by VC money early on.
We tried something similar [1] a few years ago. The limit is 5 posts per day. Our approach was minimalistic in a sense as you could post links only and no text, pictures, or videos.
We named it Turtle, symbolizing the opposite of the chatty twitter bird. It wasn't so clever from an SEO point of view though.
If target userbase is HN like crowd, charging a small fee is fine. However, I feel this model won't be scalable to general public. Hybrid model (make payments or see ads) might also be worth exploring.
What does HN think of web scraping for the purpose of price comparison?
I’m asking this because I run a small side project to show prices across retailers for a very small niche. The users are very very happy. Even the vendors started contacting to be listed on the comparison.
But I am unable to make a business out of it other than few affiliate commission.
I worked for a company that did exactly this many years ago. (They were even able to parter with some retailer). Their product worked well yet they still went out of business long ago.
To be honest, I don't see much value in such a service, not that it doesn't exist, it's just hard to justify paying for this data.
