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95 pointsdylanbfox2y ago9 comments

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No disrespect. This article isn't terrible (and I did learn something practical), but isn't the underlying purpose of this post to advertise whatever service assemblyai.com provides?

Why is it necessary for MLOps product websites to have blogs? This content could also be posted on Medium or the author's personal project website and serve the same purpose (arguably helping the author's brand more effectively). The only downside would be that this startup would not get the indirect advertising.

sixhobbits2y ago

Tech startups often invest a big portion of their marketing budget in creating useful technical content that people actually want to read. I found [0] yesterday which I think describes the "why is it necessary to have blogs" quite well.

Creating a good article takes dozens of hours to draft, and often many more to polish, edit etc. If you benefit from it, I'd suggest encouraging companies to do this more rather than buying paid ads etc (but I'm biased as I run a tech writing agency that helps companies implement exactly this, so take with a pinch of salt).

[0] https://kylepoyar.substack.com/p/pinecones-journey-from-seed...

lyapunova2y ago

A fair response. I agree, I would rather see thoughtful technical insights than vanilla advertisements on reddit or whatever. That being said, the quality of these MLOps websites blog posts (excluding the one from OP) on average tend to leave a lot to be desired, seemingly trying to say _anything_ rather than _something_. Because of this, I tend to click the link, but back out when I see its true purpose is to be an ad.

smaddox2y ago

Startups often have blogs in order to increase their visibility. It can help with both marketing and recruiting.

selfhoster112y ago

I'd rather read the article on a commercial blog than on Medium. Medium is horrible and promotes centralisation.

anmorgan242y ago

Some MLOps product websites cross-post their blog articles to Medium, or even encourage authors to cross-post to their own websites/portfolios, as to your point. Obviously, this would mean designating a canonical link so Google doesn't penalize for duplicate content, but otherwise there's no reason not to cross-post.

anmorgan242y ago

I'd also say: some MLOps products pay for the content they publish on their blogs :)

Valgrim2y ago

Is there any chat app which puts the user to contribution by generating two parallel answers side by side, and the user chooses which one it wants to respond to?

esafak2y ago

Bard's "View other drafts".

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9 comments

lyapunova2y ago

No disrespect. This article isn't terrible (and I did learn something practical), but isn't the underlying purpose of this post to advertise whatever service assemblyai.com provides?

sixhobbits2y ago

[0] https://kylepoyar.substack.com/p/pinecones-journey-from-seed...

lyapunova2y ago

smaddox2y ago

Startups often have blogs in order to increase their visibility. It can help with both marketing and recruiting.

selfhoster112y ago

I'd rather read the article on a commercial blog than on Medium. Medium is horrible and promotes centralisation.

anmorgan242y ago

I'd also say: some MLOps products pay for the content they publish on their blogs :)

Valgrim2y ago

Is there any chat app which puts the user to contribution by generating two parallel answers side by side, and the user chooses which one it wants to respond to?

esafak2y ago

Bard's "View other drafts".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse