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Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit
You might remember MYmta, and maybe you loved it, but it was impossible to maintain. The Digital Services team at the MTA + Axon Vibe + many others contributed to relaunching the official MTA app with new features based on user feedback.<p>Let us know what you think!
Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides
Hey HN,<p>I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point.<p>The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell.<p>Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the best of my abilities and as soon as possible.<p>I would appreciate your feedback on this. Let me know what you think!
Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides
Hey HN,<p>I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point.<p>The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell.<p>Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the best of my abilities and as soon as possible.<p>I would appreciate your feedback on this. Let me know what you think!
Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides
Hey HN,<p>I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point.<p>The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell.<p>Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the best of my abilities and as soon as possible.<p>I would appreciate your feedback on this. Let me know what you think!
Show HN: Finetune Llama-3 2x faster in a Colab notebook
Show HN: LLM Scraper – turn any webpage into structured data
Show HN: LLM Scraper – turn any webpage into structured data
Show HN: Open-source SDK for creating custom code interpreters with any LLM
Show HN: An app that takes your money if you don't reach your goals
My wife and I just launched this app because we had so much fun with a fitness challenge we did we some friends recently where everyone put in $100 and defined their goals, then only the people who met their goals split the pot. It made us realize there's really no better motivator than money.<p>It's better on mobile screens right now as we just designed for mobile screens for now. And we did manage to put it up on both app stores - it's low in the ranks but you should be able to search it by "Goalie challenges".<p>We built it using the leanest tech stack - Ruby on Rails, server-side HTML (no JS), tailwindcss, then packaging it for iOS and Android using pwabuilder!
Show HN: An app that takes your money if you don't reach your goals
My wife and I just launched this app because we had so much fun with a fitness challenge we did we some friends recently where everyone put in $100 and defined their goals, then only the people who met their goals split the pot. It made us realize there's really no better motivator than money.<p>It's better on mobile screens right now as we just designed for mobile screens for now. And we did manage to put it up on both app stores - it's low in the ranks but you should be able to search it by "Goalie challenges".<p>We built it using the leanest tech stack - Ruby on Rails, server-side HTML (no JS), tailwindcss, then packaging it for iOS and Android using pwabuilder!
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Ayin – An open-source photo editing software
Hello HN, I'm Fares A. Bakhit a junior CS student at Cairo University and I'm happy to announce my latest project,<p>"Ayin" is an open-source photo editing software available on Windows, Linux, and MacOS (Only a Windows build is available now on GitHub but you can compile it yourself to other platforms) with an interactive real-time graphical user interface.<p>Feel free to use and study the source code of Ayin, it's available on GitHub under the GPLv3 open-source license.<p>I've made this project in part of the Winged Dragon Competition at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence (FCAI-CU) Cairo University.<p>I've used ImGui, SDL2, and OpenGL (for image rendering, not processing)<p>A showcase video in Arabic is available, showing the functionalities of Ayin: <a href="https://youtu.be/ogkteQkJb0I" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ogkteQkJb0I</a><p>Any feedback is much appreciated, thank you!