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Watchdog

#watchdog

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
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
Ship improvements to the summarization feature in #watchdog -- AI generated daily summaries now include reference links and "growth tips" to help the community owner figure out which content to post to increase engagement Not shipped to prod as a real feature yet, but sent summaries to a few customers for feedback
Fix GuildMemberAdd events not getting sent to Watchdog properly after a customer reported that a scammer joined his server and Watchdog never notified him 😬 #watchdog
Ship massive performance improvement for #watchdog dashboard (340x load time improvement): x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… PSA: be careful with SQL! Wide columns selected and too many joins = bad combo.
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