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mfrye0 commented on Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet    · Posted by u/glawrence13
mfrye0 · 4 days ago
Hey George and Alex. This looks awesome. We're working on something similar, but for all of the businesses in the world: https://savvyiq.ai. We're international and have 265M+ entities in the system. We're actually preparing to do our own formal share on HN shortly.

We're working with enterprise customers now that want to use our system to dedupe all their gnarly business data, ground it to real legal entities, enrich it with base insights, then are asking for further data points more from a risk and due diligence standpoint.

Product information has come up repeatedly, but as you clearly know, that is a beast in itself that I don't think we'll ever tackle. For context, I helped build out the product data infra at https://www.wiser.com, and I'm not inclined to spend my time categorizing and building the taxonomy for pots, pans, and towels again.

I'm going to try out the product and happy to chat further if you think there's an opp to collaborate in some way. My email is in my profile.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account   edka.io... · Posted by u/camil
mfrye0 · 9 days ago
This is incredibly timely. I've been an AWS customer for 10+ years and have been having a tough time with them lately. Looking at potentially moving off and considering options.

My theory is that with terraform and a container based infra, that it should be pretty easier with Claude Code to migrate wherever.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings   blog.wilsonl.in/search-en... · Posted by u/wilsonzlin
mfrye0 · 12 days ago
This was super cool to read. I'm developing something somewhat similar, but for business search, and ran into a lot of the same challenges. Everyone thinks crawling, processing, and indexing data is easy, but doing it cost effectively at scale is a completely different beast.

Kudos wilsonzlin. I'd love to chat sometime if you see this. It's a small space of people that can build stuff like this e2e.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years   github.com/crbnos/carbon... · Posted by u/barbinbrad
ageyfman · 17 days ago
the product was commercial analytics for healthcare sales teams. We worked with our customers (medical device & biotech commercial teams) to define granular patient cohorts (patients with a specific disease and specific pattern of treatment) and then analyzed provider (doctor / facility) interactions with those patients.

One onboarding problem was always - here's what I know about the doctors / facilities I care about, help me understand what I don't know. Well, what they knew was usually in a CRM, with very poor hygiene, or some ERP - dat assembled by hundreds of sales and ops people over years, sometimes decades. So generally the first step for us was to do an MDM exercise to join their data to ours.

This had a huge pay-off for both parties. For us we were able to make our product much more useful to them. For them, they now had a map of their territory they could use across multiple business units, multiple therapeutic areas (these usually operate independently and sometimes sell to the same buyers!)

I'm seeing the same opportunity/challenge in my new company, but this time focusing on the supply chain of these companies.

mfrye0 · 13 days ago
Super interesting. I had the same experience trying to connect a CRM with various tools and the data was typically an absolute mess. It's a hard problem.

Would you be open to chat further? I'm not sure if I can help you or not without learning more, but I'd love to better understand what you're seeing at minimum for research purposes. My email is in my profile.

mfrye0 commented on How to sell if your user is not the buyer   writings.founderlabs.io/p... · Posted by u/mooreds
arkmm · 17 days ago
How are you guys reaching users with such a technical value proposition? Cold emailing engineers first and then expanding the conversation from there?
mfrye0 · 16 days ago
To be frank, that's the challenge we're working on now. To start, my partner and I were mostly tapping into our network for initial customers. Both of us have been in the Bay Area for 10+ years.

Now, we're working on more of an inbound strategy and have a bunch of ideas. We're debating on cold emailing, but as an engineer myself, I hate getting cold emails.

mfrye0 commented on How to sell if your user is not the buyer   writings.founderlabs.io/p... · Posted by u/mooreds
mfrye0 · 17 days ago
This hits home. We're building business intelligence APIs around entity resolution, and the buyer/user split gets messy when you have engineering, product, and data science teams all involved.

Engineers immediately understand why matching messy company data is a nightmare, but executives just see delayed projects without grasping the technical complexity.

We're seeing more success lately with "your team burned N months on data matching that should've taken weeks" rather than explaining what entity resolution even is. We're talking to one company right now that's spent 10 years building their own entity resolution system and it still doesn't work well.

But even then, it depends on the company and what they're trying to do.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years   github.com/crbnos/carbon... · Posted by u/barbinbrad
ageyfman · 20 days ago
this is a big issue in healthcare, a chunk of my last company's revenue was doing MDM for large medtechs.
mfrye0 · 19 days ago
Interesting. Was that a MDM focused product for healthcare or something more general infra wise like Informatica?

I don't have much context in the healthcare space and the challenges that exist there. We've been mainly talking to people in fintech, supply chain, and sales & marketing, which is primarily where I ran into this at past roles.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years   github.com/crbnos/carbon... · Posted by u/barbinbrad
barbinbrad · 20 days ago
for the supplier problem, we just use a typeahead/combobox component.

but for raw materials, we auto-generate the ids like this: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1947682873416221184

also working on some agents: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1903047303180464586

would love to talk, i'm brad@carbon.ms

mfrye0 · 20 days ago
Nice! Yeah, a typeahead works to a degree. I imagine that's searching their own instance vs calling out to a standardized DB you manage?

Raw materials is definitely a different animal, so auto-generating definitely works. I know a company where that's all they do - they manually pour over supplier specs to get all the model names.

Agent approach looks super cool. I see the supplier search piece happening there.

We've mapped out ~265M+ businesses globally. We're thinking about this as a data infra angle where products can tap into our system to access all the world's businesses. We're getting requests for processing millions of ERP records to clean/standardize, plus semantic supplier search across our full dataset.

I'll shoot you an email to chat more.

mfrye0 commented on Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years   github.com/crbnos/carbon... · Posted by u/barbinbrad
mfrye0 · 20 days ago
Congrats on the launch! Love seeing modern manufacturing systems.

Do you handle supplier master data management? We're seeing procurement teams struggle with duplicate vendors in their ERPs - same supplier gets entered 5 different ways, messes up spend analytics and supplier relationships.

We're building AI agents for business data cleanup (still in stealth, docs coming). Manufacturing/supply chain customers seem to have the messiest supplier data - way worse than other industries.

Curious if this is something you're thinking about for Carbon? (CTO here, happy to chat)

mfrye0 commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code   anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
foob · a month ago
I've been pretty happy with the python package hns for this [1]. You can run it from the terminal with uvx hns and it will listen until you press enter and then copy the transcription to the clipboard. It's a simple tool that does one thing well and integrates smoothly with a CLI-based workflow.

[1] - https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

mfrye0 · a month ago
I'll check that one out.

The copy aspect was the main value prop for the app I chose: Voice Type. You can do ctrl-v to start recording, again to stop, and it pastes it in the active text box anywhere on your computer.

u/mfrye0

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