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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Chapters

• 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
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Posts

• LLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem)

Books

• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov

Download the Metacast podcast app for free

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player

Get in touch

• Contact us: hello@metacastpodcast.com
• Ilya's LinkedIn
• Arnab's LinkedIn