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Kapa
Company blog · kapa.ai/blog · on HN as emil_sorensenaistartups
Kapa is the company blog at kapa.ai, writing about ai and startups. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Show HN: ChatGPT for the Langchain docs deployed as a Discord bot”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An AI assistant product that answers questions from a company's documentation and knowledge using retrieval, aimed at developer-tool docs teams. HN commenters mention it as a popular docs chatbot SaaS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Connect docs, tickets, wikis and 30+ other sources, then launch accurate AI agents your users and teams can trust. Trusted by 200+ companies like OpenAI, monday.com and Logitech.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: ChatGPT for the Langchain docs deployed as a Discord bot4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
- AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
What Hacker News says?
We shouldn't really have to retrain models for them to be able to work with new versions of libraries or frameworks. That seems like a flaw in the LLM (only?) setup. One should probably be using RAG at a minimum to pull in the correct documentation and references. Something like Kapa, but not limited to a single project https://www.kapa.ai/
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on “Tailwind CSS v4.0”Submitted AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it) as a story · 196 points
HN discussionhttps://www.kapa.ai/ seems to be the most popular saas for developer tools & docs. I'm seeing it all over the place
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on “Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG”Submitted Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models as a story · 62 points
HN discussionProbably want to check out https://www.kapa.ai/ , no affiliation, just a fan.
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on “Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality”Submitted Retrieval's bottleneck is moving from finding to selecting as a story · 32 points
HN discussionCongrats on the launch! We're building something similar [1] and are also observing a lot of the same usage patterns. What seems to happen when the chatbot says "Hmmm, I don't know..." is that the DevRel team uses that to guide them to missing documentation sections. That's why we're building a whole analytics suite and documentation heatmap around the product to give insights about doc usage. Here's a quick demo [2…
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on “Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers”Submitted Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jev is NOT a reranker (but wow it's close) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted RAG Best Practices: Lessons from 100 Technical Teams as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapbox reduces monthly support tickets by 20% with Kapa.ai as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jev is NOT a reranker (but it's close) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We taught a small LLM to throw away 68% of our RAG context as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote MCP Servers: Hosting, Authentication and Best Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tutorial: Build an agentic AI system with knowledge of your product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build an MCP Server with Kapa.ai as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Index Images for RAG as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What 1,192 conversations taught us about knowledge base search in AI agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tool that made our AI agent better at using its tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RAG Gone Wrong: The 7 Most Common Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launch a Docs MCP Server for Your Users in One Click as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs vs. 1k-Page PDFs: Why AI Fails at Semiconductor Docs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Technical Docs for LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Large Language Models Make Things Up (and How to Fix It) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kapa.ai Secures $3.2M to Advance Technical AI Assistants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kapa: ChatGPT for your developer-facing product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: ChatGPT for the Langchain docs deployed as a Discord bot as a story · 1 points
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