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Aw man, sorry this one wasn't for you!
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
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#12Hahaha this is great dude. Also your creative fae submission is fantastic. I can see why it didn’t win but it’s amusing.
The ElevenLabs narrator did say the faeries applied “Polish”. From Gdańsk or Warsaw? :)
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#13I love that 75% of the post was OP checking the math on whether or not he should join the contest.
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The rules explicitly state that multiple entries are allowed.
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Man, there are people raking in hundreds of thousands, to millions, doing exactly the same thing on youtube.
They have tens and tens of (list) channels where all the vids are generated, AI voiceover, AI script, AI images, etc. - don't think OP hacking his way through a contest is too bad.
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Odd. I didn't find it tedious at all
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It just got to the front page of HN, which includes a large percentage of users who buy and use WD-40 [1]. That alone might be worth the price of admission. You could also think about this as a collab between WD-40 and Javascript, which is pretty funny. The author is presumably posting this video and blog everywhere, which only further amplifies WD-40's outreach. And they themselves now have a positive brand associat…
I had a little tiny can in the garage, but it didn't show as well on camera
Smart use of a prop!
I also didn't think about how an older can might not look as good on camera as a brand new can.
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#18Hahaha this is great dude. Also your creative fae submission is fantastic. I can see why it didn’t win but it’s amusing. The ElevenLabs narrator did say the faeries applied “Polish”. From Gdańsk or Warsaw? :)
I noticed the "Polish" too but thought it was too funny to fix it
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#19This is an excellent example of using LLMs to convert knowledge into productivity and profit. This will be the way forward: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/large-language-models-productivity...
Had a similar idea, https://pypi.org/project/ai-alchemy/
Re: How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
#20 Lubricating a sliding door
Quieting a squeaky door hinge
Lubricating an HVAC register lever