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Watchdog's AI enforces your community's rules and answers your members' questions so you don't have to. Supports Crisp, Telegram, Discord, Reddit, and X communities.
Launched May 4, 2024
Remove all mentions of the X integration in the hero since it no longer exists so that people don't get confused
Also switch scale pricing back to $59/mo because I got zero sales this month (2 trials, but no one converted at $79/mo)
Let's see the pricing change recovers some MRR
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🪦 Retire
#watchdog 's X integration because X has finally started blocking it from doing its job, and communities are getting retired in a month anyway: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/…
+ issue prorated refund, cancel subscriptions for all customers affected by this
Onboard first customer from Ukraine and decide to fix the manual onboarding experience, because:
1. I already lost one customer this month because I was asleep when their trial came in, and by the time I woke up and activated them, they had lost interest and decided to build an internal solution instead.
2. I'm very familiar with what is needed to get new customers onboarded at this point, so it's better to just ask for that info in a form and auto set everything up instantly
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Simplify top header a bit -- still way too much going on but the chat window is more minimalistic, more obvious it's a chat window and less bold now (right) compared to the old version (left)
I basically want people to go straight to free trial, so I made the other elements less visible/used more gray colors
Let's see what this does for conversion
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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/…
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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
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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…
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