Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by henrysg » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:21 AM UTC

Hi HN - we’ve been working on a fun project that I wanted to share

It takes your PDF LinkedIn profile or resume and generates a short podcast either hyping you up, or roasting you.

It takes your professional experience and crafts a narrative of your life and why you’re so successful. Or if you want a roast… It pokes holes and makes fun of you.

I’d love to hear any feedback!

https://podial.ai/hype

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by fdlaks » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:48 PM UTC

Cool! How long does it take to make something like this?

I'm curious because it seems like you could do it with two calls to a third party LLM provider: one to prompt it to take the persons profile and generate a script for a podcast based on what the user wants, then another to get the audio file back that narrates the script.

I'm not trying being facetious by asking this either, I'm just trying to figure out what value creation actually looks like when using LLM's to do projects, what is to stop me from doing the same thing in a few hours?

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by jadbox » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:20 PM UTC

Very cool, what do you use to generate the podcast? Elevenlabs?

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by emmanueloga_ » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

Cool project, but I wish this is how you could get your resume from LinkedIn:

* Add /pdf to your linked url, example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/username/pdf

* Profit.

Instead, we get this [1].

Also, I wonder why does it have to be a LinkedIn resume? Does it work with a regular one?

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1: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a541960

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by farceSpherule » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

God no... Then everyone will look like these people:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/

I mean, look at these morons:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/1ffddl0/w...

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by BrandiATMuhkuh » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

Haha. That is awesome. Well done.

- My Hype: https://podial.ai/hype/6ac8153f-30e8-4531-8344-86fa48d776ae - My Roast: https://podial.ai/hype/b4fa3cb6-fdd7-4432-a5ca-4c73d34b645e

The roast is hilarious :D Awesome job

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by manca » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

Isn't this exactly what Google's new NotebookLM does?

Cool idea anyway :)

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by xyst » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:21 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by hshshshshsh » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:35 PM UTC

fdlaks wrote: post #2

Cool! How long does it take to make something like this? I'm curious because it seems like you could do it with two calls to a third party LLM provider: one to prompt it to take the persons profile and generate a script for a podcast based on what the user wants, then another to get the audio file back that narrates the script. I'm not trying being facetious by asking this either, I'm just trying to figure out what v…

> what is to stop me from doing the same thing in a few hours?

Stupid questions like this over general lack of action. And the idea that you can make stuff just because you think you can.

Re: Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

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Post by jcmp » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:37 PM UTC

fdlaks wrote: post #2

Cool! How long does it take to make something like this? I'm curious because it seems like you could do it with two calls to a third party LLM provider: one to prompt it to take the persons profile and generate a script for a podcast based on what the user wants, then another to get the audio file back that narrates the script. I'm not trying being facetious by asking this either, I'm just trying to figure out what v…

Once thought about doing the same and I can already tell you it takes 3 days of research to accept that theres not better alternative than the pdf resume to get the linkedIn data for a profile. I am sure they tried various ways before ;)