Readit Newshahnbee commented on Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs skeptrune.com/posts/use-t... · Posted by u/hahnbee
I had a call with a new user for a SaaS product that I sell recently. During the call he mentioned that he found it by typing what he was looking for into Gemini, and it recommended my app. I don't do anything special for llms, and the public-facing part of the website has been neglected for longer than I like to admit, so I was delighted. I had never considered that AI could send new users to me rather than pull them away. It felt like I'd hacked the system somehow, skipped through all the SEO best practices of yesteryear and had this benevolent bullshit machine bestow a new user on me at the cost of nothing.
> benevolent bullshit machine bestow a new user on me at the cost of nothing
that's awesome. i love this line.
hahnbee commented on Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs skeptrune.com/posts/use-t... · Posted by u/hahnbee
There was a lot of conversation about this on X over the last couple days and the `Accept` request header including "text/markdown, text/plain" has emerged as kind of a new standard for AI agents requesting content such that they don't burn unnecessary inference compute processing HTML attributes and CSS.
- https://x.com/bunjavascript/status/1971934734940098971
keep us posted on how this change impacts your GEO!
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hahnbee commented on · Posted by u/cbrinicombe
Love it - I'm one of the cofounders of Mintlify and I love the thoughtfulness and intentionality you put here. We've found the navigation and hierarchy to mean a lot.
I also love your future docs roadmap - it aligns with our roadmap and some things are already there! - API keys are locally cached across the API reference. Let me know if there are more fields you think would be convenient to cache and we can investigate. - Whichever programming language you choose for a code block should also sync across pages. - We also launched AI translations so you can support docs in any language! - We also have AI Chat and are planning on devoting more resources to it so that it's best in class.
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hahnbee commented on Launch HN: Promptless (YC W25) – Automatic updates for customer-facing docs · Posted by u/prithvi2206
Congrats on the launch! Would love to chat sometime on getting a Mintlify integration going.
It seems “obvious” to me that if you have a tool which can request a web page, you can make it so that this tool extracts the main content from the page’s HTML. Maybe there is something I’m missing here that makes this more difficult for LLMs, because before we had LLMs, this was considered an easy problem. It is surprising to me that the addition of LLMs has made this previously easy, efficient solution somehow unviable or inefficient.
I think we should also assume here that the web site is designed to be scraped this way—if you don’t, then “Accept: text/markdown” won’t work.