- Where's the evidence that users want this?
By users, I mean the people who browse marketing websites. Do they think having their company name / information in your copy is going to be helpful or creepy?
Oh, and did the IP owners give you permission to take Obi-Wan's name in vain?
I tried several different domains and the copy was so generic it gave no indication of being personalised.
- I am trying to make a constructive feedback and not just critical if I sound that way by anychance. I spent a bit of time but it's hard to get the product. Instead of the team photo on home page, you could show some images of what you mean by the product personalization. Honestly people don't have much time to read through and understand a product , which has a simple value proposition.
- This demo started out as really cool - but the very first generated was terrible (in that it actually would have been very negative for our brand)
Happy to discuss what exactly was problematic with you guys - so please take my comment constructively.
- We’re heading to sleep as we’re on London time! Thanks to everyone who commented & for providing feedback. It’s been immensely useful to hear everyone’s perspectives.
Please reach out to us if you would like to at product@kenobi.ai
by twelvechess
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- Ok, your UI/UX is amazing, the experience is awesome. But for me, I don't immediately understand what you do and for whom. What I understand: You tailor my website to the visitor on my site (landing page), which would be pretty cool as an add on. What I don't understand: How you would do that, how do you create a personalized experience for a visitor you don't know something about?
by 8organicbits
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- How do you ensure that the LLM is creating accurate content? It would be a terrible experience if the LLM rewrote a website with bogus claims that confuse customers.
- If you go to their website and click the "Personalize" toast at the top and enter a random domain (e.g., google.com, hydroflask.com, etc.) it will change all the copy on the site for you.
by block_dagger
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- I tried this on an open source audio streaming website I maintain and the personalized content was completely nonsensical.
- I think you should add more demos to the landing page. I have no idea how it will look, and I don't want to try a demo version.
by darkhorse13
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- Since you're from batch W22, what was your original idea (if you don't mind me asking)? Or was this it?
by AznHisoka
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- What types of info are you looking at when you are personalizing?
One idea would be to track what recent technologies/products they’ve bought recently (or what products they’re using) using Bloomberry. ie. If they’ve started using Okta, it might mean they’re investing in security tools [1]
[1] bloomberry.com
by candiddevmike
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- There are so many problems with this idea (privacy, security, accessibility, deceptive advertising, design) that I'm impressed it actually got funded. If you're just going to have a LLM generate most of the content, why even sell this as a personalization thing and just have a LLM generate the entire website on the fly per request?
- Tried a couple times but it failed
by mike-gongolidis
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- I love this idea! This could also be used to transform a site for seniors (legibility/simplicity) or neurodivergent users (summarization/focus modes) and address compliance/UX issues for enterprise brands.
- Genuine question: if traffic to websites is down and likely to continue the trend, what would be the value? Do you plan to address agentic browsing in the near future?
by slugiscool99
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- Everyone worried about privacy - not sure if they realize everyone is already collecting this type of information anyway?
I think this is cool and probably the future of B2B websites. My holdup would be, if the buyer enters their company and the copy just changes into what we think they want, are they going to lose trust that the copy is a true representation of our focus? Maybe it's a framing problem, lots of websites have "solutions" sections for different industries. Potentially could be cool to have a "how we can specifically help {your company}" with an exact use case outline.
- I was quite underwhelmed by the demo, I'll try to be as constructive as I can.
The core functionality I expect for such a service is for it to automatically detect who I am, I've seen other marketing services do this, there are ways to map IPs to companies and other techniques. Of course, it's rather creepy and not super helpful to the user, but it may have its (shock) value for making certain kinds of products stand out.
And the personalisation itself... Anyone can make a call to an AI + Search service and generate a new version of the HTML with some slightly modified text, which was not all that different, appealing or accurate in the tests I made. I would suggest upgrading to a higher quality model, proper AI can do much better than this if given the right context.
I suppose it's nice that you are making this easy, if you built your site with a visual website builder this wouldn't be completely trivial to replicate. But still, not a very defensible business for now. I suppose that with good marketing and a serious roadmap to beef this up it could be a viable idea.
by subtlesoftware
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- Small issue: it changed the h1 text value which is the name of the product in our case
by truekonrads
1 subcomments
- Are you blocked by anti-bot measures for purposes of demo?
by yungookim
1 subcomments
- How does it work with SEO? for crawlers, it just serves the default site?
- Had high expectations for the website, but maybe because it's bugged or likely because you're using a cheap LLM, Kenobi identified my tech company as a yacht-building/sailing/marine company and tailored the content accordingly.
- Yikes
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