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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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Take call from old coworker who wanted to catch up, which turns out he meant he wanted to start a company with me and hire me as CTO. Decided to (respectfully) decline to keep working on #watchdog and other projects
Get MRR back to > $500 after closing a new customer at $59/mo #watchdog
Force X communities specifically to use a dropdown to select rules because it's a weird integration that requires rule names to match between Watchdog <-> X #watchdog
Get good feedback from new X customer #watchdog
Ship better rules display in the dashboard #watchdog
Successful sales call #watchdog
Add docs site to customPages for sitemap generation because it's not managed by Astro and won't get picked up automatically #watchdog
Add developer api docs using redocly because there are multiple customers using this now and I want to stop forwarding telegram DMs with docs Too bad the UI looks kind of meh, may look for an alternative or try to theme it later #watchdog
Ship start and end date filtering for the community statistics developer API h/t @marc #watchdog
Make analytics page design more uniform, now to hook up data to the metrics table #watchdog
Start on analytics page redesign to include shareable, global statistics for all communities that a customer has #watchdog
Close new customer at $59/mo over X DM because he noticed the #buildinpublic logo on the landing page and runs a similar community on X #watchdog
Get nice feedback from influencer #watchdog
Pay YouTube influencer with 10K subscribers $100 as a marketing experiment for a #watchdog tutorial video + promotion on their Discord server
Move static guidelines to the the top of the prompt to try to take advantage of prompt caching for lower costs #watchdog
Ship quick fix to block customers from trying to supply youtube videos as Q&A sources #watchdog
Mark image read errors as retryable so that the retry mechanism I implemented actually works 🤦‍♂️ #watchdog
Negotiate with influencer with 12K followers for a YT video for #watchdog who seems excited about the product and agree on $100 as a test budget
Auto retry image download requests for X communities because sometimes their server times out #watchdog
See acceptable latency increase and 50% cost reduction (!) after enabling service_tier = flex #watchdog
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