Quora's platform for interacting with AI-based bots
All developers can now build bots on Poe, including both customers of Anthropic and OpenAI who are building more complex products on top of their models, other AI companies who are training their own language models, or anyone using LLMs from other sources.
Impressive — Poe wants to be the "web browser" of LLM apps, starting with the Poe Platform, as detailed by Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo in this post.
And looking to the future, "Benefits that come from building an application on Poe:"
• Distribution to millions of users already using Poe
• Native applications across all platforms (Android is almost ready) for the best user experience using your product
• Persistent user history, cross-platform sync, and other supporting features so you can focus just on what’s unique to your application
• Easy tools for people to share the output from your bot to drive growth
• Feedback from users (e.g. likes and dislikes) that you can use to improve your product
• Monetization (in the future)Distribution to millions of users already using Poe
About Poe API on Product Hunt
“Quora's platform for interacting with AI-based bots”
Poe API launched on Product Hunt on May 16th, 2023 and earned 106 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. All developers can now build bots on Poe, including both customers of Anthropic and OpenAI who are building more complex products on top of their models, other AI companies who are training their own language models, or anyone using LLMs from other sources.
On the analytics side, Poe API competes within API, Open Source and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 633.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Poe API performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Poe API?
Poe API was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina