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QueensGambit commented on Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets promptrepo.com/finetune/... · Posted by u/QueensGambit
this is great, and right up my alley. i built a customer support chatbot using a google sheet for our CS folks to input & structure their question/answer pairs. that is auto xformed into markdown and fed into the bot for context. it works fairly well considering how simple it was to do. i'm really intrigued as to what promptrepo can add to that. will definitely give it some R&D time!
Yeah, Google Sheets is a surprisingly powerful interface for business teams, especially when they’re the ones curating the data. Curious to see how Promptrepo fits into your workflow. Happy to help if you explore finetuning on top of your existing setup.
When I see a product — especially an early-stage product — trying to funnel me into a yearly subscription, the signal I get is that you think I’ll quit in less than a year which, in turn, implies that your product isn’t very good. It just makes me trust you less.
There's some truth to that. Early stage products often start out rough and part of the journey is finding early users who believe in the potential enough to stick around while we improve.
That said, in our case, the switch away from monthly plans wasn't just about churn. We actually got shut down by GoDaddy due to phishing abuse [1], which forced us to rethink our approach. We've since added a flexible trial extension to avoid punishing genuine users, but I’m open to feedback and willing to change if enough people feel strongly.
honestly i like seeing tools get simpler like this, makes me wonder though how much of the real value comes from the tech itself vs just making everything less scary for folks who aren't engineers. you think easy interfaces actually help people get better results or just get more folks trying stuff?
Depends on who’s using the tool. Developers might be fine coding a form into their app, but an HR person needs a form builder. Similarly, the data for training models usually lives with domain experts, but they don’t have a tool to actually do the training. That’s why, in this use case, a simple interface makes sense, IMO.
Why Google Sheet though? Why would you want your customers to give their training data to Google?!
Don’t want to sound like a shill, but Google doesn’t use data from your Google Sheets to train its models or for advertising. By default, your data stays private and is protected under Google Workspace’s privacy policies.
I don't like the pricing. $38 a month headline much smaller billed annually with the price more than doubling. This is the trick your customers strategy and hope for no chargebacks.
I understand your concern. We’ve had cases where short-term users abused our product for phishing, which led us to remove the monthly plan initially. To address that without locking out genuine users, we’ve added an option to extend the trial for up to 3 months before choosing a monthly or yearly plan. Feel free to message me if you’d like more time.