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Reflecting on WikiTok

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Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by diggan »

lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory.

Am I missing something, it comes off as the precise opposite to me? OP wrote "I built X, but the idea came from this source" basically, acknowledging they built the thing but the idea came from somewhere else.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

#12

Post by diggan »

timkq wrote: post #2

It's great that LLMs provide opportunity for non-software engineers to make tech products, but I wonder how those "vibe-coded" products will fare when faced with actually maintaining the code (and also accounting for tech debt..)

> faced with actually maintaining the code (and also accounting for tech debt..)

I guess they'll learn it as they come across it? "Oh Claude, my code is almost like a plate of spaghetti, how can I make it easier to add new features without breaking something else?" "Dear user, here is what technical debt and unit tests mean: ..."

Besides, all of us self-learned programmers mostly learned about those things the hard way as well, by experiencing the real drawbacks of not caring about such things until too late and stuff is already up and running with real users.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

#13

Post by slevis »

lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia".

The author is giving credit. Literally the opposite of your interpretation.

> I had the same idea in my notes app dated a couple years ago.

On the other hand this seems as if you now want to claim to be the inventor of the idea?

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

#15

Post by ryukoposting »

diggan wrote: post #12
timkq wrote: post #2

It's great that LLMs provide opportunity for non-software engineers to make tech products, but I wonder how those "vibe-coded" products will fare when faced with actually maintaining the code (and also accounting for tech debt..)

> faced with actually maintaining the code (and also accounting for tech debt..) I guess they'll learn it as they come across it? "Oh Claude, my code is almost like a plate of spaghetti, how can I make it easier to add new features without breaking something else?" "Dear user, here is what technical debt and unit tests mean: ..." Besides, all of us self-learned programmers mostly learned about those things the hard w…

Here's the thing: the formally trained programmers learn it that way too. They're just less inclined to admit it.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

The point of that phrase was just to highlight the derivatives the I had no affiliation with.

I built it and marketed it, but the idea came from some tweets that were gaining momentum.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

dev_chhatbar wrote: post #17

I really like this idea! Thank you for making it! I personally prefer web-apps to phone-apps but wouldn't mind installing one if its in the pipeline from OP!

There is no phone app! There's a progressive web app you can download. Funnily, I thought I solved the mobile issue making the PWA until I realized 99% of people have no idea what a progressive web app is.

Re: Reflecting on WikiTok

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Post by aizk »

diggan wrote: post #11
lwansbrough wrote: post #5

> I built wikitok.io in about 2 hours (but not the iphone app that doesn't work, nor the play store rip off, nor wikitok.net but I'm getting ahead of myself). It all came from this tweet. This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. I did try my hand on t…

> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory. Am I missing something, it comes off as the precise opposite to me? OP wrote "I built X, but the idea came from this source" basically, acknowledging they built the thing but the idea came from somewhere else…

Some of them came before me, but most of them were clones that came after me. I just wanted to highlight what happens when you go viral - there will be copycats.
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