I didn’t read the post, I checked out the website just like 99% of the people will do. Simple advice, if you are selling a product with a selling point of being visual, show it on your website. Not in a YouTube video but actual screenshots, short cut 10 sec video/gif
Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
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#22Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
#23In the demo video you shared (yt link) how many credits did that whole project take? What is the prices to fix elements of it (for example of you dislike a minor aspect of the generated spreadsheet do follow up instructions utilize only the narrow subset of agents that has been demoed to that subtask, or does it create new agents who have to create new context in the narrow follow up task?)
Credits are consumed by the blocks that get generated, not by the agents themselves. Some blocks are cheaper than others. A simple prompt or image block is a single model call, while browser use or deliverable blocks like documents and spreadsheets run models in a loop and cost more. Blocks also cost more when they have more blocks connected to them (more input tokens). In the demo video I shared, the task cost about…
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#26I'm completely sold on the canvas layer. Embracing non linearity is such a boon when you're on the ideas stage. When you have verified it though, moving it to another medium (a document, presentation or just code) is often the best choice.
Do you see the canvases created with Spine as "one off" that you discard when you have got your deliverable, or as something living that you keep around?
I'm building a side project for running SQL on a canvas (kavla.dev), so I'm thinking about canvas workflows all the time!
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#27I didn’t read the post, I checked out the website just like 99% of the people will do. Simple advice, if you are selling a product with a selling point of being visual, show it on your website. Not in a YouTube video but actual screenshots, short cut 10 sec video/gif
Definite miss on our part, we're working on making the product experience more visible upfront on our landing page.
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#28This may be too harsh, but you need to make it immediately clear to someone today why they can't just have Claude Code one shot your app!
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#29What does it mean to say 30,000 monthly credits and 1500 daily refresh credits? If my project takes 7000 credits (the way your demo does) then does that mean I couldn’t actually do it on the lowest available pricing plan because I couldn’t use 7000 credits in one run? If this is the case, what am abysmal pricing model!
You can use your full 30k balance in a single run if needed. The daily refresh just tops you back up over time so you're not waiting for a monthly reset.
Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
#30Interesting idea, I wanted to see an example of the agents working on a canvas when I opened your page. I saw nothing of the sort. Sorry, but immediate fail. This may be too harsh, but you need to make it immediately clear to someone today why they can't just have Claude Code one shot your app!