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Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by throwaway435675 »

reducesuffering wrote: post #12

I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live (in the US). Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you. Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them: https://exoroad.com

Hey, this is really great! I used gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages when I decided where I wanted to live. One thing that was really important to me, that your site doesn't cover, is growth. I grew up in a small town, and hated the "we're a small town where everyone knows everyone one and we want to keep it that way". I specifically filtered out cites that didn't show Year over Year growth, which surprisingly filtered out hundreds of cities and virtually every small town in America. You could create a section for "History" and then start with census data and work your way out. The age of the town probably reveals a lot too, like the average age of houses, types of jobs, etc...

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by Rendello »

I'm building a web extension for an Inuit language (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; more details in my past comments). It's my first extension, and though it bucks the AI trend, it's still hip and cool because it's in Rust and WebAssembly ;)

To be serious though, it's also using Python and JavaScript, and I'm struggling with slogging through the JS portion. It started out as a mobile keyboard, then I decided to focus on the extension for now. I've also been struggling with connecting with people that would use this extension, so I'm starting to think it won't provide value at all, and I'm considering abandoning it.

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by reducesuffering »

throwaway435675 wrote: post #51
reducesuffering wrote: post #12

I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live (in the US). Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you. Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them: https://exoroad.com

Hey, this is really great! I used gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages when I decided where I wanted to live. One thing that was really important to me, that your site doesn't cover, is growth. I grew up in a small town, and hated the "we're a small town where everyone knows everyone one and we want to keep it that way". I specifically filtered out cites that didn't show Year over Year growth, which surprisin…

Thanks for the feedback! Growth is an interesting concept I hadn't heard people wanted yet, but totally makes sense. Population and home price over time for a specific place, of course. But to filter or weight choices based on YoY growth in some aspect? There's definitely a case to be made for the momentum of some places to keep getting better and others that stagnate.

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by reducesuffering »

reverius42 wrote: post #33
reducesuffering wrote: post #12

I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live (in the US). Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you. Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them: https://exoroad.com

> best fit Depending on who you ask, and/or by what methods you're computing this, this is in fact AI. Probably most would agree that a neural network is AI, but quite a few will assert that linear regression is too. edit: didn't mean to make this a put-down or try to exclude you. I guess I'm just being pedantic for no reason (or bitterness about the near-meaninglessness of the term "AI").

That's a fair critique for the context of this thread. There's no linear regression currently. I didn't take the thread title to mean "explicitly attempting to have my product devoid of any AI," as opposed to "building a product, and it doesn't have AI", which is my current case.

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

Marginalia Search is an AI-free[1] search engine, mostly because I don't think search is much helped by AI. The sorts of problems that does better than traditional IR-methods based search are things traditional search engines never did particularly well anyway.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://git.marginalia.nu/

[1] For whatever AI means these days. Given everything people claim to be AI in their marketing, there's an argument to be made all software is AI.

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by gwynforthewyn »

Andrew is a web server to help you write a web page like you're back in the 90s. It consumes and renders web pages from the file system, no databases involved. This is the basic design restriction that informs feature decisions. You get started by writing an "index.html" file and then running Andrew from that directory.

It helps with some chores that show up with filesystem based sites, like allowing you to embed a {{ go template }} that'll be replaced with an automatically generated table of contents, automatically rendering a sitemap.xml and a few other things.

It can load a private key and cert for SSL traffic, so it's just a little lightweight tool that does one thing reasonably decently.

I'm just reading the activitypub RFC so I can add support for federated identity. I'm pretty excited.

github.com/playtechnique/andrew

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by FergusArgyll »

My first Arduino kit ever arrived yesterday, been playing around with it with my siblings.

The rock paper scissors game with an lcd and 3 buttons does not use AI despite it saying

  Player: Rock
  AI: Scissors
That's just so no one realizes getAiPick is just random(3)....

Re: Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

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Post by wingerlang »

I'm building an app where the competition basically is all about AI. It's a "continuous screen recorder" to look back at what you've worked on over the days or weeks. https://ScreenMemory.app

All other similar apps (Rewind.ai is the most notable, or maybe Microsofts Recall) basically focus (focused?) on summarizing your day through AI. Personally I am fine with a smaller scope, instead focusing on the visual aspect of a day.

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