Changes to DealerRefresh

[Alex Snyder]

would be good to build in some additional “core brain” alerts for users that are contributing to the forums on where they can add value.

Ok I’ll stop now and go back to the kids table … also emojis no longer render in content

Give me some more on this "core brain" idea. I think I get what you're saying, but I can take a little more detail.

I noticed the emojis aren't playing as nicely as they did before. They're also looking a little dated. I have some big AWS work coming. Hoping that will help a little.

Also, considering modernizing the emoji.

 

[MattCopley]

Give me some more on this "core brain" idea. I think I get what you're saying, but I can take a little more detail.

I noticed the emojis aren't playing as nicely as they did before. They're also looking a little dated. I have some big AWS work coming. Hoping that will help a little.

Also, considering modernizing the emoji.

Happy to catch up anytime but it should be fairly easy to get Claude (or similar) to monitor the forums and look at profiles that typically add value to the context of a conversation… send an alert to get them engaged etc. likely some fine tuning work but should be fairly low lift.

 

[Alex Snyder]

Happy to catch up anytime but it should be fairly easy to get Claude (or similar) to monitor the forums and look at profiles that typically add value to the context of a conversation… send an alert to get them engaged etc. likely some fine tuning work but should be fairly low lift.

Ah. I gotcha now.

My personal challenge has always been: if you build it with AI, how can you build it so that it doesn't need AI to exist later?

We have a few small features that cannot live without AI now (Thread summaries and Weekly summation on the home page), but this one is going to give me a challenge to see if it can live without AI... if it weren't Friday night, I'd have a better thought on this front.

 

[Mitch Gallant]

Not an original idea but damn do i miss going to drivingSales and seeing who's in the game when I need ___________ or someone visits NADA or Digital Dealer and now we need ALL NEW ____________.

It was nice to be able to pump the brakes, find a handful of options, short list a pack of demos and get a feel before calling or really knowing much of anything except for a bit of reputation.

 

[Alex Snyder]

Not an original idea but damn do i miss going to drivingSales and seeing who's in the game when I need ___________ or someone visits NADA or Digital Dealer and now we need ALL NEW ____________.

It was nice to be able to pump the brakes, find a handful of options, short list a pack of demos and get a feel before calling or really knowing much of anything except for a bit of reputation.

You gave me an idea. It is already in the works.

I am building a solutions library that grows as more posts are made on DealerRefresh. It is being seeded with over 1,000 solutions/vendors. The cool part is that it will be a library for our internal operations while also serving as a library for dealers to come into DealerRefresh and say, "I am looking for a new website provider" or "I have a CSI problem."

You will get a list of ideas based on forum content and some generalized AI searches. It is wholly tuned to solutions for car dealers, so it will be highly relevant.

There are many other legs for this library that will come out over time.

Thanks Mitch!

 

[joe.pistell]

New Members Area.

**THEME** 1 + 2 =3
1). AI will empower sooo many ppl with great ideas that lacked the resources to build their ideas.
2). For 2 decades DR attracts the pioneers in our industry
3). Watch for many new brilliant minds to come to DR.

Examples:

John Lynch
Founder, WattMatters

WattMatters - EV Hardware Intelligence

wattmatters.ai

United States Military Academy, West Point — Class of 1986
Applied Sciences Engineering

NYU Stern School of Business — MBA, Finance, 1993

Veteran-Owned Business
Member of CIADA and NIADA


______________________________________________________


First Name Carl
Last Name Schiller
I am affiliated with.. Vendor
Dealer or Company Name Michigan Automotive Solutions
https://www.michigainauto.com
______________________________________________________

Plus, I know of a GSM in the mid west THAT QUIT and launched:

First Name Trent
Last Name Sliefert
https://forum.dealerrefresh.com/members/trent.1166/#about

DARKHORSE — Outperform. Own everything.

A proprietary data and workflow platform for independent businesses. Zero tracking. You own everything we build.

projectdarkhorse.ai

 

[Alex Snyder]

Wow! The bot traffic has increased way faster than I anticipated. Yesterday afternoon we had over 16,000 visitors on the site at one point. Most are bots.

The day before we hit over 14,000 and one bot crashed the site. We have some more safeguards for this in place. And I will continue to work on ways to separate the bots from the regular traffic.

I wanted to address these big numbers by saying we are not claiming these to be all automotive industry folks. And I should say this is all intentional! It happening faster than I thought it would.

In the past few weeks, DealerRefresh has grown. We were already noticing more traffic from AI search results from over 20 years of content on DealerRefresh. We then changed the SEO structure of threads, added summations, rebuilt our old newsletter system, added rewards for participation, Jeff got back on LinkedIn, and built a giant vendor library. All of this is bringing more traffic.

That Traffic = a mix of bots and poeple.

 

[joe.pistell]

Screen shots get blocked due to your image max size.

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The uploaded file is too large for the server to process."

 

[joe.pistell]

plz pin this thread to the top, or, create a easy find link to it.

 

[Alex Snyder]

plz pin this thread to the top, or, create a easy find link to it.

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