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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
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Ben Katz
@ben
Ship overhauled and way more reliable logging to production and see the DB filling up as expected #watchdog
The image displays a data table with various columns related to analysis and moderation statuses.
Ben Katz
@ben
Completely rework message logging and make it way more detailed, include more messages beyond just rule violations to unblock a bunch of new features in my vision for V2 of #watchdog. Not in production yet, will be soon - despite this change looking very simple it required a huge rework of how I was logging things 😅
The image displays a task interface from a community platform showing a message log entry with punishment details. The image displays a modal window detailing the results of a punishment enforcement by the Watchdog system.
Ben Katz
@ben
Upgrade from postgres 17.6 -> 18.1 #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
rework message logging to start recording all messages, not just rule violations #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
ship “get community” api for customer who is integrating #watchdog with their platform
Ben Katz
@ben
Ship unattended activation for communities to better support customers who want to auto onboard communities using Watchdog's API: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog
The image displays a user interface for managing a community activation process. A chat interface displaying interactions related to community onboarding using Watchdog's API.
Ben Katz
@ben
Clean up code that starts a new Telegram bot for each "whitelabeled" community and avoid tying a bot to a community 1-1, as the same bot can be shared across multiple communities now #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
Ship ability to update community status via API because a customer asked who is building a platform on top of #watchdog
The image displays an API documentation interface for updating community status.
Ben Katz
@ben
Ship excluding Discord roles from moderation for #watchdog in both the dashboard and the API: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/…
The image displays a code snippet for a JSON payload related to a Telegram group configuration. The image displays a user interface for selecting whitelisted roles in a Discord moderation context.
Ben Katz
@ben
Write post about retiring the X integration (I'm not happy with the lack of post coverage due to sketchy browser rendering integration) but delete it after a customer assured me he loves the product and is recommending it to others #watchdog
A conversation in a messaging app discussing the potential retirement of an integration and its value.
Ben Katz
@ben
Update ToS to remove wording about Lemon Squeezy since I migrated to Stripe long ago #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
Work with new customer for a couple hours to figure out why tf #watchdog was not receiving messages for his group only to realize he forgot to give it view permissions to the channel. I must be sleepy today 🤦‍♂️
Ben Katz
@ben
Fix discord mute punishment to work properly, and set the duration to 7d because a new trial customer asked #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
Handle new scam where scammers forward a message containing telegram "reply markup" buttons which look super legit. Now extracting the button text and link out of the button so the AI model can properly analyze the message ✅ #watchdog
The image displays a code snippet for handling Telegram message reply markup buttons to extract button text and links. A scam message requesting account verification with a button to confirm identity.
Ben Katz
@ben
Solve customer support issue where a customer accidentally checked "dry run" on one of their most important rules then wondered why the bot wasn't doing anything 😄 #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
Fix bug on Telegram where messages from admins would fail to enforce punishments because admins can't be muted for example #watchdog
Ben Katz
@ben
Fix false positive with X posts because if someone includes an image in the post, X appends it to the message text -> causes false positives when customers have rules about disallowing external links 🤦‍♂️ #watchdog
The image displays a code snippet addressing the removal of media URLs to prevent false positives in message processing.
Ben Katz
@ben
Ship feature allowing customers to add images to their test cases (also for me, so I can help debug rule wording fast): x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog
The image displays a user interface for running a one-off test case with fields for author name, message text, photo URLs, and message type.
Ben Katz
@ben
Send trial ending email to new customers who are about to convert (🤞) because I'd rather them not pay if they're not finding value out of the product #watchdog
An email reminder about the ending trial period for a service called Watchdog.
Ben Katz
@ben
Do 10 more cold Discord DMs and get one positive reply from an AI company, seems the founder will check out #watchdog when he gets back to his office @marc your cold email strategy of showing value first (finding examples of spam before asking if they're interested in the solution) is working really well, thanks for that
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