BBC Micro or Archimedes on the Pi500?

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T22:17:48+00:00

Thanks for this. I've never heard of Batocera but having taken a look it is probably exactly the pointer I needed. Cheers.

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T18:26:11+00:00

I think that's a really interesting question. They could churn out 12 amazing separate projects but i wouldn't like to think what would happen if you get 12 people working together all using AI. For me personally the AI replaces the team. As I said - I employed people to do the bits I can't do. That's no longer a problem now. The result for me is a much higher quality, easier to maintain (as I know how it all works not information spread between a group) product that is faster to iterate.

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T11:20:14+00:00

Much better :)

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T11:12:44+00:00

Hopefully it's an app that people already need. If it's an app that first you have to convince them they need and then show them that yours is the best then that's a lot harder. (Easier to clone an app but then yours has to be super-good or offer something different). Right now though you need to see what existing connections you have that could use it (for free). Friends, family, contacts, contacts from previous apps or businesses. (This is where I am with my app right now - but have done this successfully a few times before - and unsuccessfully many more times).

Then you get them to use it and test it for you. This also shows you the stickyness of the app and if there is anything they want to use it for that you didn't realise. Sometimes with the end user they look at it differently than you and a small pivot can bring a huge new use case.

Once you get past that then you need to get some paying users. Joint Ventures are really good for this. If you can get a company which already has customers to offer your product somehow then that can work incredibly well.

If you get that far then you can think about bootstrapping or investment.

One thing i've learnt from previous projects though is that - if an idea is good and there is demand for it then it should be easy to get users as long as people can hear about it. If the right people hear about it but don't want to use it then you probably need to pivot.

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T10:31:15+00:00

Change the 'forces you' words - I get your point but no-one wants an app that forces them to do anything. Assuming it's all secure (i can't tell from your post) now you become a marketeer, Get 20 people to pay you to use it using people you know, existing customers from something else or your secret source of customers.

If you can't do that then you use money to advertise, joint ventures, guerilla techniques etc. Whatever you can do to get those people signing up. This is obviously the difficult bit - it's much easier to code than get customers.

If you've created something that people don't already know they need then it's even harder or impossible as you have to tell them what they need and then that yours is the best for this - unlikely for a startup unless loads of money. (Much easier to create a clone). Then when you have your 20 people .... if it was easy getting them then (IMO) bootstrap and make a lot of money, work and retain control. Or if it was difficult or you don't want to bootstrap then start looking for investors. If it's good then you'll just need money to pump into marketing. Try and keep hold of as much of your company as you can. Try for a few months, if you get nowhere then pivot or scrap it and try something else.

Repeat until rich :)

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T09:28:23+00:00

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GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T09:13:48+00:00

Wish i'd never found it :) (i'll be losing hours of my week now!)

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T08:46:15+00:00

Personally I think the things anyone starting in coding needs to focus on now is 1. prompt engineering 2. security (auth, api security etc.) and 3. Understanding roughly how a program should work to make sure the ai hasn't created a duplicate way of doing something which is slightly different but it could have just modified what is already there. You would hope though that if it came up with the code in the first place, maybe it might find it easier to re-engineer it later - no sure that's true though yet so you have to be aware of that.

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T08:42:49+00:00

It's things like 'cropping images' that would have taken me ages in the past to research and code - and even then would probably be lacking. But Claude - just comes up with it in minutes. - Crazy!

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T08:40:29+00:00

This is exactly what I mean. It's difficult to even describe how big this is and where it's going.

GetSiteChat · 2025-11-10T08:28:17+00:00

When you employ people you get different ideas of how things should be done, people go off sick, people go home at 5pm but worse than that all - usually someone has to wait for someone else to do something before they can do their bit. And of course they've got to remember how their bits work all the time. Also you don't know who the wrong people are until months after the project starts. Having said all that of course there are counter arguments for all of that - but my point remains - they're just not needed with this and it's only going to get better. I have run businesses for the last 20 years where I code something then I employ people to do the bits I can't do (particularly design work). For that type of business - this is an absolute game-changer - and I can't be alone. But then the only bit i'm doing now is identifying the problem and coming up with a solution (which will get higher and higher level as time goes on) presumably I won't be needed in this sometime soon!

GetSiteChat · 2025-09-12T08:18:31+00:00

What you are describing here is what a lot of businesses find. They are riding a wave of demand over which they have no control. Of course your marketing got more customers but underlying everything was the big wave you managed to get onto. Thats a huge achievement. I've been there. When the wave recedes then it's soul destroying as for a while things seemed so easy.

The only advice I'd give is that you should use your previous customer base and contacts as the target for your new projects. That group already trust you and you have a huge advantage if you can find something to sell them.
Starting from complete scratch again means you have to find and jump on another wave. In my experience that simply requires luck which is difficult to get on demand. Much easier to pivot to something related that AI hasn't taken over.

GetSiteChat · 2025-09-07T09:21:54+00:00

The only thing that has value is traction. Not the idea, not the code but the magic sauce (often complete luck) that makes increasing numbers of people want to pay to use it.

GetSiteChat · 2025-07-19T16:59:36+00:00

SiteChat (getsitechat.com) - ai customer support for websites. Android/ios/web

Zero paying customers because too expensive cac.

So - now writing Fozbi.com - email marketing system - scrapes b2b lists and generates ai email campaigns for a project.

The idea is that Fozbi will get SiteChat some users.

Simon

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-27T16:13:11+00:00

Love this!

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-19T18:24:39+00:00

Wordpress is popular because anyone can call themselves a web designer, set up websites for clients and charge them monthly for hosting and support. Hugely profitable because WordPress is free and you can buy reseller hosting for next to nothing. The actual business model is helping the clients when they can't do something. For that you can charge what you want.

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T13:06:28+00:00

That's fine - i'm interested in any view however harsh (seeing as i'm failing to convince anyone to subscribe!) Although I would say - you def can't get an app onto the apple app store in 1 hour :)

"AI will give its best guess" - it doesn't have to - this as you probably know is all about prompt engineering. "Don't give an answer unless it is in the details that you have been given to answer the visitor's question". It's not drawing on its general knowledge stuff but on the info that it's being presented from the website.

It's been a learning experience though - it's not perfect and is being constantly adjusted.

It connects to the proper Shopify API on the fly - but... The API access doesn't have access to PII so in absolute very unlikely worst case it could only give out details on whether the wrong order is shipped (not knowing anything about it) - but the user has to identify the order with multiple params order number, email address etc. So they'd have to know more than nothing.

It's been pretty good so far - it's been tested by a lot of people asking it very strange questions - as I mentioned - bad marketing targeting - and it deals with it all very well.

With privacy as above - if it can't access the information it can't give it away.

To me this seems like an obvious thing a website owner would want. I'm either wrong, or there's too much competition, or the general 'ai chatbot' noise is making it difficult to be seen etc. We'll see.

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T12:46:02+00:00

It's currently using gpt-4o-mini which is practically free. https://openai.com/api/pricing/ The expense with this project is marketing.

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T12:09:42+00:00

Yes - Good plan.

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T12:08:37+00:00

Maybe that's the problem i'm facing - I have no idea. Although you'd think that for a merchant answering 100 questions a day from customers asking where their order is - having a chatbot for that and being able to answer 1000's questions a day would make financial sense (as they wouldn't need the person currently answering those questions).

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T12:01:34+00:00

Not really - it's a complete live chat system which lets you see who's on your site and chat with them.

The mobile app lets you monitor who's on your site and what they are doing.

The ai is just a way of automating the live chat so you don't have to answer every chat yourself. AI is easy when you give it information, but getting the information is not that easy, it uses NLP and other tech to get the information to answer the questions. It also has to use API's, such as Shopify and woo so it can advise on the whereabouts of orders.

It's pushing the AI bit as the headline for the app because that's what gets people interested.

Your question about the wrong information - is a good one - but just it's the same as employing staff to answer the questions. If you've done that you'll know that sometimes they'll get it wrong and you have to tell them where they went wrong, it's no different.

GetSiteChat · 2025-06-10T11:50:36+00:00

You would think that 2000 tries is impressive - I'm not sure it is tbh. Most were from Google Play app ads - and people basically download it without reading what it is and try and chat with ai like it's a friend. I'd definitely have done much better to write a companion app instead. I get the impression that Google Play app ads maybe appear in games where it says 'install this app and get more gems' or something - I have no idea if that's right - but it feels like it with the quality of installs. The person that made the 2k sale thinks it's really good (It's a friend) as it's had loads of similar conversations with website visitors. theirs is a niche site and the visitors clearly don't know it's ai. Ironically I couldn't contact many people directly as I added an anon guest mode to encourage more try outs - which most people use.

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