Episode description
Our website got slammed by LLM bots from Amazon and Anthropic, which could've cost us $7k in Vercel image optimization costs!
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Segments
- [00:20] Introduction and episode overview
- [01:31] New features and updates
- [03:02] Why do we keep applying to YC?
- [08:53] The LLM bot invasion incident
- [21:26] We re-allowed LLM bots to crawl the site
- [28:22] Book & podcast recommendations
Show notes
Posts
Books
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
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