Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy
Hey HN — 2 months ago we shared our first product with the HN community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362535). Despite receiving lots of traffic from HN, we didn’t see any traction or retention. One of our major takeaways was that our product was too complicated. So we’ve spent the last 2 months iterating towards a much more focused product that tries to do just one thing really well. Today, we’d like to share our second launch with HN. Our original idea was to help software engineers build high-quality LLM applications by integrating their domain knowledge into a…
Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy launched on May 22, 2025 with 34 votes, #679 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Pi Co-pilot is a tool designed to help software engineers evaluate and optimize AI applications. It simplifies the process of assessing LLM app quality by focusing on scoring and comparison rather than complex optimization workflows. The product targets developers who need to quickly evaluate AI implementations before moving to advanced tuning or fine-tuning stages. It streamlines what was previously a complicated evaluation process into a single, focused capability.
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Hey HN — 2 months ago we shared our first product with the HN community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362535). Despite receiving lots of traffic from HN, we didn’t see any traction or retention. One of our major takeaways was that our product was too complicated. So we’ve spent the last 2…
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