Cut costs massively by switching to 2 new specialized AI models to replace the baseline model I was using: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog

Continue benchmarking various AI models to replace #watchdog's primary model and see several "top tier" models show a high error rate, bad latency, poor moderation ability vs. open source models that are supposedly "less intelligent" - exactly why I decided to run my own benchmark instead of trusting artificialanalysis #watchdog

Add ability to delete knowledgebase entries because a customer asked, and fix a bug causing old entries to not be auto deleted when the refresh job runs nightly #watchdog

Push several landing page updates: - Upped the pricing for the scale plan from $59/mo to $79/mo - Show a starting price for enterprise plan and remove automated Q&A as a feature for launch plan customers to try to anchor people to the scale or enterprise plans. - Overhauled blog post list to show multiple posts per row with tags shown instead of 1 post per row - New blog post about impersonation scams: watchdog.chat/blog/how-to-aut… #watchdog

Fix issue where contact cards were not getting analyzed on telegram to close yet another vector scammers use on TG (telegram offers WAY too many options for different types of messages to send, which makes it easy for scammers to try different attack vectors) #watchdog

Activate first Saudi Arabian customer who runs a big padel group, interesting use case #watchdog

Add impersonator detection as a key selling point on all plans #watchdog

Statically link timezone data to builds to fix a customer issue where their timezone was not recognized (because the distroless image I'm using for my container only had a minimal set of timezone data) Increases the binary size by 500kb but a worthwhile tradeoff to not have this bug #watchdog

Deploy regex rule analysis support because @marc wants to block certain crypto websites and doesn't want to fool with AI prompt wording #watchdog

Use `USERNAME` instead of `USER` to fix all email sending 🤦‍♂️ #watchdog

Deactivate, cancel subscription for a scammer who signed up for a Watchdog trial for some reason and report him and his network of scam groups to Telegram's abuse email #watchdog

Wake up at 5 AM and get all prepped for the enterprise sales meeting, only to realize the guy moved the meeting at the last possible minute to tomorrow at the same time 🫠 Accepted the new time + time to go back to sleep #watchdog

Prepare for first ever enterprise sales call that I booked from a cold email (not through any kind of referral) for 5 AM today 🤞 Created a list of questions to ask them, set up a demo server + rules to show them how the product works, and created a financial model spreadsheet/calculator that I will fill in live to help inform the pricing I give them at the end of the call Here goes nothing! #watchdog

Detect when scammers change their global display name instead of their per-server display name for Discord #watchdog

Land first ever enterprise sales meeting by sending a cold email and name dropping @marc ‘s Build in Public community #watchdog

Ship temporary punishments with configurable durations in #watchdog x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… and www.linkedin.com/posts/benmak…

Send $1,500/mo "long term partnership" agreement to existing customer and pray for a positive reaction 🙏 #watchdog

Write up scope doc for customer who I'm trying to upsell to enterprise pricing because he's asked for several medium/large projects #watchdog

Decide to make automated chat summaries a Scale and Enterprise only feature for better anchoring + update pricing section #watchdog

Ship automated community summaries www.linkedin.com/posts/benmak… and x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog