matt_holden

Interesting point. OpenAI has said they don't train on files uploaded via the API (like the Assistant API), but unclear what the policy is for documents in GPTs.

Either way, the signal they could get from understanding what KINDS of documents builders/users want to do better retrieval on is probably quite valuable.

I also wonder how user file uploads will interact with copyright law and the new Copyright Shield from OpenAI.

E.g. if a user uploads the full text of Harry Potter to a GPT, you could argue the model output is fair use but unclear how courts will interpret that.

LLMs are already a sort of "copyright blender" that aggregate copyrighted inputs to produce (probably?) "fair use" outputs. With the foundation models, OpenAI can decide what inputs to include in training. But with custom GPTs, users can now create their own personal copyright blenders just by uploading a PDF :)

Cool, makes sense!

It seems like you're heading in the right direction on packaging/pricing.

Charging for services you manage, more team members, and security features bigger cos care about all make sense to me.

I previously looked at your Pro extensions and some seemed nice to have (UniqueId, emoji), but it wasn't enough to get me to pay, and I rolled my own versions of those instead.

Building multiplayer sync is really tricky, so providing that as a managed service seems valuable and worth paying for. I have no problem paying for services like Clerk.com or Liveblocks.io that involve managed "servers" I don't want to build/run vs a purely client-side library.

I recently discovered Liveblocks, and think their positioning/marketing/docs are great -- the fastest way to turn any SaaS app multiplayer.

I wonder if you could do something similar but focused on all the complexities of text editing (esp since it's such a core primitive for LLMs now). Just a thought - excited to see where you take it!

Comments like this remind me of the old-timers from IBM saying "but wait, we invented the PC! and the cloud! and..."

Gotta put products in the market, or it didn't happen...

Also: Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack, Superhuman, Pitch, Loom. All Electron.

I’ve never understood the hate Electron gets on HN, when it powers so many great products that users love.

When I was a product leader at Dropbox back in 2015, we chose to build our Gmail integration on the InboxSDK and we're generally happy we did.

It let us focus on our core user experience, without worrying about all the DOM hacking, Gmail variants, constant version updates, etc.

If you want to build cool experiences in Gmail, highly recommended.

Is this true though?

I can send $1000 USD to someone in France who wants EUR for $7 with Western Union.

How does Bitcoin or Ethereum let me do this for less?

The 2015 federal transportation bill allocates $48B to transit over 5 years and $205B to highways.

I've never understood why people frequently describe transit spending as a "government subsidy" but would never say the same thing about the much larger highway spending.

If you don't insist on adding tolls everywhere to make highways break even, why hold transit to a higher standard?