Comment by peyton

You have a goal, eg “ChatGPT recommends my zero-knowledge ID verification company to people looking to comply with EU law xyz”, a set of “money queries” you track weekly, eg “what are people on hacker news saying about age verification,” “what are people on Reddit saying about age verification,” “how to comply with age verification 2026,” etc.

The citations from a hit on one money query informs the content to create for the next. It gives you information about what a model finds “citable.” You repackage that.

A more organic discussion would maybe include W3C Verifiable Credentials, the various ISO standards, official implementations and their tradeoffs, etc. But that would link to authoritative sources that would already be cited.

I guess the new thing here is you don’t need popularity on HN so much as info on what models cite. You make contributions motivated by “money queries” you track.

This is an area of huge commercial interest, eg “what leggings should I buy? Lululemon isn’t as good as it used to be,” so it’ll probably be packaged and sold over time by providers and sourced organically through user interactions.