You are not the first person who has asked about it.
It looks like a useful feature to have. Therefore, I'll dig into this topic more broadly over the next few days and let you know here whether, and possibly when, we plan to add it.
This looks super awesome. Very excited for you potentially open sourcing it, as I’d like to customize/extend it a bit for certain use cases. Re: smolvm vs in use, I think even if smolvm works great for it, why not keep incus as an option for people who want to use cave on VMs that don’t have access to /dev/kvm (Eg the user can pick either incus or smolvm for their cave deployment)
It's probably quicker and more cost effective to just buy advertisements on ChatGPT. Let OpenAI deal with the technical problem of "how can we make AI able to use a website designed for humans".
Come on, cant you tell? LLMs will crawl your website over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER AGAIN!
Businesses are generally in the business of serving human customers, not AI agents. Furthermore, if AI agents are so smart, surely they can figure it out for themselves.
Not really, business websites are generally in the business or serving user-agents like browsers that then convey the information to users.
If I tell Claude to go search the web and find me a bunch of links to the websites of restaurants in my neighborhood because I want to try something new do you think the restaurant wants to be on that list?
I would say that the restaurant would be wasting its time and resources by catering their website to hypothetical customers who are choosing to use inferior and overly engineered methods to find information about their physical surroundings out of technological fetishism. But that's just me.
These AI tools are taking over as the main search/discovery vector for websites. Engaging with it is just basic SEO. This isn't really that complicated.
For content or media sites it's a different story. But most websites direct people to commercial transactions, and that's the group I'm referring to.
As a user, why would I trust an AI agent that cannot consistently use non-AI-tailored websites? If it cannot even do that, who knows what other failure modes it may hit me with.
I agree, but do the potential customers of my business?
We need to meet the customer where they are and that means making our site more accessible to search engines, mobile devices, LLMs, or whatever comes next.
So looks like the AI Platform free tier will have access to the open models only perhaps? And the 10,000 neuron thing? I don't see any mention of frontier models in the url you linked in the other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792538#47793142 )
Another feature request. Why not have a nice webui interface to this? Obviously could just vibecode something on top of what you did but putting it out there that that would be cool
The goal was a fast terminal tool, and I'm not ruling it out, but considering how hard it would be to compete in the SERPs with other whois sites, I don't think I'd spend the time on it right now
Why would you care about competing with other whois sites? I don't think it's going to be a money making venture in any case, and you could easily host it for free on fly.io
This was really just a personal tool I built because I got tired of parsing default whois output. Don’t have the bandwidth for a web UI right now, maybe down the road.
It’s not about making money. It’s more that there’s no real way for people to discover it by competing for visibility on whois-related searches against established sites.
The link doesn’t load for me FYI. A web version would be in Go, reusing the TUI internals. All doable, just not where I want to spend my time right now. I’ll likely get to it at some point.
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