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com2kidyesterday at 10:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

ChatGPT has helped me find multiple niche products and vendors. It is really good at that. Products I fruitlessly tried to find for years, ChatGPT found right away.

> I can imagine lots of cases where people with specific needs would find benefit from the “AI clothes buying” experience,

That is kind of the idea of serving the long tail. Everyone is unique, and there are a lot of everyones.

That said, I don't get online clothes shopping. The fit is 80% of the product.


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QuercusMaxyesterday at 10:45 PM

> ChatGPT has helped me find multiple niche products and vendors. It is really good at that. Products I fruitlessly tried to find for years, ChatGPT found right away.

isn't that what search engines were built for? we've just forgotten how to build a search engine that's not just an ad factory, so instead we're putting an ad factory into our new search engine?

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jrflowersyesterday at 10:31 PM

>That is kind of the idea of serving the long tail.

I feel like I see a brand new way of saying “something that people don’t really want” on a near daily basis nowadays

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