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#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
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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.
Hit 50 DR #watchdog
Ship "channel selection mode" dropdown to let customers customize which channels are included/excluded from rule enforcement: www.linkedin.com/posts/benmak… x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog
Automate fetching channels for discord servers (no more manually importing them for every new customer) #watchdog
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