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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#141
Well PocketBot won't be AI related in a few years. We're using AI with it's only job being to eliminate itself. Automations, using a single simple prompt, fully private, with a massive user created library (~1000 testers so far). People create automations - our LLM makes a template out of it -> goes to our shared user library -> when someone asks for an automation we check if it already exists and if so then deterministically adjust it for their use. If no automation exists then request sent to our Tier 2 LLM which creates it. Maybe not exactly what you wanted to hear, I am just excited about our idea...

Edit: Sorry missed the most important point. So the more users and the bigger this library gets, the less LLM usage we have, until eventually we are able to run almost fully deterministic.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#143

I'm currently working on a small tool that helps me setup new personal computers in a purely descriptive way. A little bit like ansible, but then totally not like ansible. It generates SSH-Keys. It clones repositories, installs uv and rust. It removes Snap from my Ubuntu machines and installs firefox from the mozilla repositories.

Like nixOS?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#147
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was recently looking for such a streaming thing; just streaming from a set of MP3s in a folder, nothing fancy. The majority looked too complex, with too many moving parts, for my idea. Found one in Go that might interest you too: GoFM. Although I dropped my idea for now, I'd love to see yours come to life, too.

I started with this one: https://medium.com/@icelain/a-guide-to-building-a-realtime-h... And then, modified a lot. At some moment I will open it back. (Author's MIT license allowed closing it; I did it actually because I embedded a number of idiosyncrasies related to the radio service that shouldn't be disclosed; but with some amount of work it can be divided into an open and closed part). The broadcasting skeleton f…

Thank you for the pointers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#148

Built a SQL interface for DynamoDB. I was tired of constantly trying to find workarounds for querying on a NoSQL database, so I built a direct interface for DynamoDB, which I'm calling DynamoSQL. With it, you can use standard SQL (even JOINs) on DynamoDB. I'm really excited about it, and I'm starting beta trials this week. https://dynamosql.com

So instead of people using the right tool for the right job and learning single table design when using DDB, they are going to use the completely wrong tool. I can just imagine the sub optimal in memory aggregations and expensive use of read and write units.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#149
Broke my scapula and had never built myself (in Product, not dev) So decided to try to use Wispr Flow and keep productive since I couldn't type.

Built an open source chrome extension to build reports to provide back to our dev team. I promote it as AI related but it's not really. It just lets me grab elements on local files visually, comment on them, and provide them to our devs as a structured brief. There's others on the market but it wasn't worth paying for something so simple so I just made it free for all!

getmarkup.dev https://github.com/noahomrilevin/getmarkup

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#150

I'm building a macOS image editor -- no AI here, just Metal textures, compositing, blend modes, all that mathematical raster goodness. It's getting closer to a Mac App Store release and has a preview version on https://skullrocksoftware.com

Really cool - I love the retro look&feel of it. Like Photoshop 1.0

Is it a heavily customized SwiftUI app?

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