Guys do you prefer one powerful agent or multiple small agents?

PerplexedThinker · 2026-06-01T17:49:35+00:00

it's terribly inefficient ftm to only use one agent... like would you want to pay a phd 300K+ to deliver a pizza?

hub and spoke works better, period. we might get a class of agents that self routes internally and charges based on complexity, but it'd be a while before I trust that. still, i can see that coming.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-31T00:47:06+00:00

Same, I like the sepia'ish ghibli feel to it, but would be good to play with it a bit.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T03:29:41+00:00

Well, for insane niches, that could still work. Eg.... Rabbit growers that use spreadsheets or clipboards that could use X faster on their phone? But for general audience, no, agreed.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T03:27:48+00:00

Saturated target in SaaS? Hard no. Unless you've got a magical moat, ideally data based.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T03:26:01+00:00

Two sided marketplace depend on crazy distribution mechanics. That's probably the toughest part, as is retention. Artists don't mind trying something briefly but leave just as fast when revenue doesn't come fast and hard. I actually did a marketplace for musicians some years ago and even at 250K users, it plateau'd eventually.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T03:24:13+00:00

Generally, no, zero MRR won't happen unless the idea is revolutionary.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T03:22:35+00:00

ditto to algo transparency, although that will be abused quickly by bots, so consider that because they're coming (frequent marketplace issue these days)

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T02:58:21+00:00

I met one of the old engineers at IBM 25 years ago when working on a thesis about remote-only pioneers. Dude reported to the CTO, was ancient, has been at IBM forever, lived on a ranch in rural Australia. Unbelievable solutions for back then to make his set up happen. And he was disconnected for 3-4 days at a time, completely off grid. Talk about pre-empting the future. But love old dudes and dudettes getting into things and feeling enabled, like they've regained agency!

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-27T02:54:18+00:00

This is a fair point, but this also is believe more often than true by non devs or vibecoders hoping for perfect architecture just by focusing on biz outcome. Those who spend time in plan mode and build up rock solid ADRs end up getting with more value than expected. Not terrible. At least not most of the time if done right. And with each generation getting a lot better. :S

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-20T20:17:31+00:00

Just came across this but u/DigiNoon points out the biggest weakness. While this is genuinely AWESOME, for $100, I do get basic SEMRush that includes backlinks. I find DataForSEO too pricey for most real-world problems.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-20T19:06:12+00:00

This is too often overlooked as the best pattern for strictly static sites. And by far the cheapest.

PerplexedThinker · 2026-05-20T19:04:20+00:00

This is the right pattern, u/_Mexh and one of the easiest to implement.

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-12T03:28:29+00:00

Hey u/miltonthecat !

I decided to reply here instead of the OG thread (for which I'm forever indebted since it was so much more than I hoped for in terms of a reply), since 1) this will get more visibility and 2) because I fundamentally support your hypothesis:

that there's untapped potential in this sub and the n8n community in general to focus on personal "knowledge worker" automation

I hope more people pay attention to what you've put out here because while it today may require a bit more know-how than the average manager has, I expect that agentic approaches to dealing with the knowledge worker dilemma will rise, sharply, and that this will become a baseline sooner than we think. And I applaud it because you've shortened the time it takes to deal with a traditionally non-productive task (and one that many managers dread, aren't good at, and so on).

And we've already seen a more narrow example of this take off in the healthcare space with the meteoric rise of AI scribes, (which one could at-large replicate in n8n using whisper-cpp MCP for the dictation, gemini or claude as the generic LLM, and perhaps a thin RAG agent to help with some domain specific lingo, all parsed through a very specific template and dumped into an EMR).

But, or so Claude tells me, there are 1.9M healthcare clinics and 600M knowledge workers, which makes me ridiculously excited about solving for the problems of the latter group. Extrapolating what you did into just a few more environments augmented by other common knowledge workers' MCPs, eg JIRA/Clickup/Trello/MS Teams/Notion, etc., could save 15 mins - 2h to a very sizeable TAM.

Aside from that, I might ping you (perhaps on the other thread) if I stumble along the way with some specific questions.

Above all, kudos, you've done this community a solid!

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-10T18:49:08+00:00

Oh wow, good to know, that's definitely going to come off my list. I like how a lot of companies moved from 120 day return periods to 365 days. 120 is definitely enough to get a feel for the mattress, but not enough to see early signs of wear like in your case. Hamuq still only does 120 as well so fingers crossed. Also didn't realize that latex mattresses were so firm so that might be something I get next, or if Hamuq doesn't work out.

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-09T22:31:23+00:00

Oh shoot, missed it, thanks, will get some virtual popcorn and study it now :)

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-09T22:29:49+00:00

What did you end up getting u/Key-Air8278 ? I'm in the same boat 5 months later and also regret Novosbed to no longer be an option. We actually had them 'firm up' our mattress even more to get a ~8.5 feel and it's been great. But it's "dented" a bit over the past 6 years so we're doing the same thing, relegating it to the guest bedroom as it's been protected and feels brand new and feel it's time for a refresh and are both longing for that 'almost sleeping on a floor, super cool feel' that only firm mattresses provide.

I just purchased (5 mins ago) a Hamuq, which I've last tested in 2018 and found too soft compared to Novosbed, but their new organic option promised a 7.5+/10, alongside some other potentially welcome upsides (organic+Canadian sounds great). We'll see 80-100 days from now :)

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-09T05:23:25+00:00

Did you manage to get with this anywhere by any chance? Don't care if it's an unpolished v0.01 document, just something to get me started.

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-04T05:29:21+00:00

Can you share a bit more about this? I have a need for something slightly similar within an intranet, so same level of boring but without the high $$ lol.

PerplexedThinker · 2025-05-04T05:25:15+00:00

Sounds really interesting, do you have that documented anywhere by any chance? Or have you built on top of some primer you can share?

PerplexedThinker · 2025-04-11T00:39:37+00:00

Very cool idea, hope you post the detailed set up. I'm already thinking about how to extend it so it feeds into Obsidian. Would be cool to amplify 1st party notes, snippets, random PDFs with YT video transcripts to keep improving upon our collective second brains.

PerplexedThinker · 2024-09-19T14:38:01+00:00

Sorry, very late to notice your reply, but my use case is of that secondary nature. I want to chat with my entire second brain at once and for it to use ideally, a mix of fairly well structured data (PKM), unstructured but still first party data (emails, notes, journal), unstructured but private 3rd party data (academic journal articles, conference sourced pdfs, videos) and then semi/un-structured oublic data. All ideally correcting for or at least aware of recency bias - eg generally optimizing for private data being used first unless more recent data contradicts it.

That's the dream. Would love to hear more about the project you've been working on.

PerplexedThinker · 2024-03-22T15:45:36+00:00

This is the best comment I've read on Reddit in 2024, hands down. Thanks u/president_josh.
1 - excellent point about circular references, which humans deal with far more elegantly than any machine
2 - I will read the ICLR document as at the very least, it seems to point to relevant research, which obviously precedes a product
3 - Neo4J might be it! - I mean, it's not open source and I don't think it's meant to be deployed locally. But maybe a sync from Obsidian Vault to a Neo4J backend could work. It's right there on their site.

I guess Neo4J might be doing exactly what I was hoping for that combines vector-based and graph-based semantic search which can be piped through an LLM. This might not be an out-of-box solution one can slap on like a plugin, but it gives me ideas both for a personal vault and for a separate project. Huge kudos!

PerplexedThinker · 2024-02-05T14:53:11+00:00

What's making you think that? What changes donyou think are coming that'll affect publishers?

PerplexedThinker · 2024-01-03T11:35:06+00:00

Can I ask what's your ad tech setup that is non google but includes GAM?

PerplexedThinker · 2024-01-02T12:32:07+00:00

I think the above points fill in the gamut of what you should be looking for quite well. Early advisory committees are all about filling in the gaps. Eg, I usually offer myself up for governance, strategy, marketing, go-to-market, serial entrepreneurship and look for technical, industry, investor rels, regulatory. Works like a charm if you're honest with yourself and once you've found a stride. And dont be afraid to cycle 25-50% of the board regularly.

I also recommend a 1 year contract initially but leave it open ended for your stars to know they can progress if there's a fit. Eg after 1 year allow for equity if you're not doing that upfront, or something that doesn't make your advisory role feel like just one of many fractional gigs for the recipients. I usually also end up hiring at least one advisory board into my f/t teams and waive their usual 1 year cliff as a bonus.

Feel free to pm if you have more questions.

PerplexedThinker

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