Are you also not using AI to program it? Or is it just a program that's not integrated with AI?
Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
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Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#12Are you also not using AI to program it? Or is it just a program that's not integrated with AI?
Ha, it's an ambiguous title. Yeah the post is about not using AI in the actual note-taking process.
You will be unsurprised to learn though that I largely haven't used AI to program it.
The main ways I do are documentation/research questions, obviously autocomplete when writing code (which I do, still exclusively in an editor), and some ancillary scripts and tools.
Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#13The money is in B2B. This is nice as a hobby project, but it won’t scale beyond that as meeting transcriptions/summarization are an actual business force multiplier. I wouldn’t quit your day job to go all in on this.
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Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#14Are you also not using AI to program it? Or is it just a program that's not integrated with AI?
Ha, it's an ambiguous title. Yeah the post is about not using AI in the actual note-taking process. You will be unsurprised to learn though that I largely haven't used AI to program it. The main ways I do are documentation/research questions, obviously autocomplete when writing code (which I do, still exclusively in an editor), and some ancillary scripts and tools.
> largely haven't used AI to program it.
That’s like saying you haven’t used cocaine often. And using the autocomplete that uses LLMs to write out entire functions from a signature is still using AI.
Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
deleted comment - I will never learn to ignore this kinda thing (referring to GP comment). It's difficult to not get defensive when you put a lot of work into something and you receive what you feel are very unfair / unjustified comments. Of course like anyone, when I do a substantial launch on HN I do tell friends. Most probably the referenced comments came from one of my friends trying to be helpful, but I don't ac…
Not what GP was going for, I think. They called out a green user with a very specific comment history and made no comment about this submission.
I would say GP is in the wrong, based on their explanation. I think this type of thing is not okay. (The "I told my friends and they made a comment innocently"). You're basically causing activity that goes against the spirit of HN and these users have clearly not bothered to read the guidelines, and then you're washing your hands off of this, even though you directly caused it.
Look at this thread for example. [0] I'm sure it's a case of the same phenomenon. What are these people adding to the discussion!?
Sure, it's not a big deal. Refusing to acknowledge that it's annoying or that it happened because of you is just weird, though. It's not even a good look for your post, anyway, and HN has even gone so far as to penalize posts for direct-link upvoting, so they very clearly don't want this and you probably had to explain some kind of shady workaround to your friends if you still ended up on the front page.
Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not what GP was going for, I think. They called out a green user with a very specific comment history and made no comment about this submission.
I would say GP is in the wrong, based on their explanation. I think this type of thing is not okay. (The "I told my friends and they made a comment innocently"). You're basically causing activity that goes against the spirit of HN and these users have clearly not bothered to read the guidelines, and then you're washing your hands off of this, even though you directly caused it. Look at this thread for example. [0] I'…
Having reflected on this I agree with you.
Yes, it's annoying, and blame does lie with me for it happening because I did let friends know about the launches for this on HN, and the comments that come from that are entirely predictable.
Actually it's annoying on a deeper level for me too: I've realised through the referenced comment links that I thought the account in question was an actual user on the original launch post, where I responded to them with an enthusiastic thanks, but in fact it wasn't real positive feedback just one of my friends trying to help. Which is nice, but not very useful for me. I still don't know which friend this is, by the way :-D
Overall I learned for future to just not do this again at all. It just doesn't help on these launch posts anyway, the amount of interest they need to actually get on the front page and stay there is way above what just a handful of friends upvoting or commenting can do for you. When it happens it always happens because people find the actual thing interesting, so there's no point trying to induce that if it doesn't exist. But it's so easy to feel like you want to do everything possible to help get something out there that, as the parent says in a downstream comment, you've poured your heart and soul into.
And you're right, ultimately it's against the spirit of HN and not how we want this place to work. I'm a long time member of this community, it's my favourite place on the internet to be honest, I want to see its standards maintained, and should be doing my best to do that.
Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say GP is in the wrong, based on their explanation. I think this type of thing is not okay. (The "I told my friends and they made a comment innocently"). You're basically causing activity that goes against the spirit of HN and these users have clearly not bothered to read the guidelines, and then you're washing your hands off of this, even though you directly caused it. Look at this thread for example. [0] I'…
Having reflected on this I agree with you. Yes, it's annoying, and blame does lie with me for it happening because I did let friends know about the launches for this on HN, and the comments that come from that are entirely predictable. Actually it's annoying on a deeper level for me too: I've realised through the referenced comment links that I thought the account in question was an actual user on the original launch…
> Overall I learned for future to just not do this again at all. It just doesn't help on these launch posts anyway, the amount of interest they need to actually get on the front page and stay there is way above what just a handful of friends upvoting or commenting can do for you.
There's also weighting in effect, not all upvotes are the same (upvotes from the same IP don't count at all, and upvotes from long-time accounts — like yours? — count extra). I'd imagine upvotes from new accounts barely count, if at all.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say GP is in the wrong, based on their explanation. I think this type of thing is not okay. (The "I told my friends and they made a comment innocently"). You're basically causing activity that goes against the spirit of HN and these users have clearly not bothered to read the guidelines, and then you're washing your hands off of this, even though you directly caused it. Look at this thread for example. [0] I'…
Having reflected on this I agree with you. Yes, it's annoying, and blame does lie with me for it happening because I did let friends know about the launches for this on HN, and the comments that come from that are entirely predictable. Actually it's annoying on a deeper level for me too: I've realised through the referenced comment links that I thought the account in question was an actual user on the original launch…
Hate beating a dead horse but I just found this again. [0]
Ctrl/Cmd + F for "worst mistake".
Re: Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
#20Can we expect another comment or 3 from asura5? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202090
How do people even find this kind of thing? Is it manually? Are there search tools for this?
I remain very curios of how gnabgib was able to find this.