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I'm attempting to run a side project / business. I'm launching it this month (it's been slowly gaining in sign-ups prior to release which is a good sign in my opinion). It's https://www.simex.io/, a personal assistant you can give tasks to over email, sms and other protocols in the future.

So no growth (unless you account my 50 sign-ups in the past 2 weeks, much higher than my sign-ups at the beginning of June when I added the form) or revenue yet. I'm hoping to launch in a couple of weeks and then immediately begin testing different monetization ideas (I have 3 and I don't think I should do all of them; would like to focus on one maybe two at the most so I need to do some testing).

The A.I. / assistant space is becoming quickly crowded but I think I have a bit of a unique niche in that it'll handle tasks asynchronously (starting with meeting organization and overall asking a group of people a question and aggregating the results much like a map reduce over people (okay that sounds hyperbolic but I like the symbolism)).

Just signed up. Can't wait to start talking to HAL

Ha thanks :)

I would concentrate on a specific niche, instead of a general AI ... eg : Assistant for lawyers Answers questions like "When is the date for the next lawsuit ?"

The site design needs to be professional.

Thanks for the feedback! I love feedback but it's so hard to get it from outsiders without looking like I'm just trying to spam people :)

> I would concentrate on a specific niche, instead of a general AI

Yeah boiling the ocean would be amazing but at least initially I want to concentrate on a similar use case to that of x.ai where you're essentially using it as you would a personal assistant to schedule and gather information, likely in a corporate environment.

I'd like to keep to a niche of asynchronous task handling but that's way too big to be considered a "niche" but more of a philosophy with how it should work. Hoping I can phone it in initially with scheduling and information gathering then others can use the SDK to do whatever they want with it.

> The site design needs to be professional.

Yeah it could use some more love; trying to balance working on the website and working on the actual product. Though currently I think it's decent enough.

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