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AskPaulGraham is a conversational tool that lets users ask questions and receive responses based on Paul Graham's essays and writings. Launched in 2022, it serves people interested in Graham's perspectives on startups… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AskPaulGraham launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Essays by Paul Graham GPT▲363

   A tool for thinking — unrestrictive and full of surprises.

   2025 · its alternatives →

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   AskHN▲612

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   AskEdith Free Tier▲78

   Question-driven analytics tool

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   What would Paul Graham do?▲109

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   AskClubhouse▲126

   Allow your Clubhouse audience to ask written questions

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   Paul Graham GPT bot▲91

   A bot to navigate and search Paul Graham essays

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   AskMore▲304

   User interviews that run without you

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   Just Ask▲81

   Maximize your meetings with our free live Q&A tool

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   Question Base▲376

   Answers and documentation in Slack

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    AskEdith▲289

    Never write SQL from scratch again

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    Paul Graham's Essays Visualized▲238

    Startup and entrepreneurship advice from PG in visual form

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    pg2epub▲121

    Download an always up-to-date ebook of Paul Graham’s essays

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    ChaturGPT▲161

    Let ChatGPT read all your PDFs and answer your queries

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    AskSumo▲204

    The smartest AI personal shopper for software deals

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    Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching▲165

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    AskMiku▲135

    Not your regular ChatGPT in Slack

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    Ask Dovetail▲125

    Bring your customer insights to Slack and Microsoft Teams

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    Shareholdr▲123

    Listen to startup essays

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    Askey▲70

    Instant market research surveys through Messenger

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    SurveySparrow▲135

    Turning surveys into conversations!

    2017 · surveysparrow.com · its alternatives →

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    Live-Ask▲72

    A one-stop solution for moderating discussions and Q&As.

    2018 · live-ask.com · its alternatives →

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    QuestionPro▲80

    A free online survey tool

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    Talk to Paul▲19

    Chat with Paul Graham's essays

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    HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site▲108

    Hi HN, I’m the founder of a SaaS platform called CommandBar (YC S20). We’ve been mucking around with AI-related side quests for a while, but recently got excited enough about one to test it with some customers. Results were surprisingly good so we decided to launch it. HelpHub is AI chat + semantic search for any website or web app. You can add source content in 3 ways: -Crawling any public site via a URL (e.g. your marketing site or blog) -Syncing with a CMS (like Zendesk or Intercom) -Add content manually The chatbot is then “trained” on that content and will answer question’s based on…

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