Wow this is so cool, feels like it could be a better Zapier
Zapier has a pretty big barrier of entry, it already provides countless integrations - that would be the actual tough part to catch up with.
Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
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#42Pretty cool concept. ChatGPT meets IFTTT. I could see myself using it for some automations in my life. However, I am not ready to trust you with my API keys just yet. ;)
I suppose a webhook could be set once their instances can access the internet. No trust required.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know Zapier has new LLM features but I haven't done in a detailed comparison. I would be curious if the Magic Loops creators could speak to what their product does that is different. On first glance, it seems to do less than Zapier, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just that it might excel for different use-cases.
Our goal with Magic Loops was to leverage a LLM-first approach to programming, allowing more people to write code that does useful things. It turns out that when you write simple programs, they often resemble what you'd find on Zapier or IFTTT :)
Wouldn’t it be possible to leverage Zapier for their integrations instead of trying to imitate that?
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#44Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#45Every few years, somebody reinvents Yahoo! Pipes.
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#46Every few years, somebody reinvents Yahoo! Pipes.
It's Unix all the way down...
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#47Pretty cool concept. ChatGPT meets IFTTT. I could see myself using it for some automations in my life. However, I am not ready to trust you with my API keys just yet. ;)
I suppose a webhook could be set once their instances can access the internet. No trust required.
You can access the internet using the API blocks, just not from within the code blocks today.
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#48Looks Great tool. :) Suggestion: please add the ability to use credential for social, to be able to perform social tasks.
Great suggestion! With internet-accessible code blocks this should be doable soon, but we love the idea of a "first class" block for social APIs.
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#49How do you plan to get around the gpt 4 rate limiting if this thing scales?
Fantastic question. Our goal is to use LLMs to help create the loops, but to rely on code for the majority of (predictable) automation. LLMs make for useful blocks, and oftentimes you can fallback to GPT 3.5 for most structured tasks. With that said, this launch definitely hit some GPT-4 rate limits :)
Also, we hope that an open-source version will allow folks to do more with their own keys.
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#50Very cool usage of LLMs! Are you planning to build a business around this? Open source?
We were working on another product called ChatSeed (ChatGPT for teams) but found that many of our users wanted something with a bit more control. Building Magic Loops has been on our back-burner for awhile, and so we decided to dogfood ChatSeed to build this.
Our current plan is to keep Magic Loops running as long as people seem to like it (and especially because I track the tides with it!), but we also think it could be super powerful to run locally, so we're hoping to open-source it at some point as well.