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Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

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post #7

This is quite thought provoking in our capitalist world. Fills you with dread that this could actually be a thing.

Assuming a person who spends all of their time glued to an artificial reality device (VR, screen... book) we're already there. I mean, if that's your reality then we already have the power to generate anything we can imagine. And for a lot of us that's our preferred 24-7 reality.

Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

#135

Pretty cool! As someone who is currently trying to get good at doing fullstack I can't help but wonder what stack did you use and how much time did you spend on it?

Thanks! Next.js + tailwind, Cloudflare hosted, it was made for week in sum mostly to learn this stack

Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

#137
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know of a company that is huge in laser for physics and started like this in the 80s (through magazine catalogs). They would list all kinds of lasers. When they got some offers for one of them, they'd sell it and schedule the delivery in 90 days. Then, they started the project from scratch. Crazy stuff and borderline legal :D

We do something similar at work. Except usually the dev department doesn't know until handed the project from sales and so the project goals might be entirely unrealistic given the deadline. What do you mean that feature doesn't exist? Well, I sold it to the customer, they have to go live in two weeks and their workflow depends on this feature.

While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."

Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

#139
Laptop With Telephone Handset: https://anycrap.shop/product/laptop-with-telephone-handset

That is not how I imagined the handset to be attached! How would you even close the laptop?

Digital Watch With Parabolic Antenna: https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-watch-with-parabolic-an...

That's not a parabolic antenna. But I like the 3-digit minute.

Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

#140
Very cool!

Interesting content filtering. Seems like pretty much anything is allowed except for products with "system prompt" in the title. The LLM self sensors the description of inappropriate content but the product and pic gets generated.

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