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Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos
Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots' limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful
Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos
Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots' limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful
Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos
Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots' limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you
Show HN: ReadToMe (iOS) turns paper books into audio
I'm launching something that started as a side project publicly today: ReadToMe, which is an iPhone app that turns paper books and other printed text into audio.<p>Originally this was a Christmas present for my fiancée, who loves books but has an eye problem that makes it hard for her to read more than a few pages at a time. She mostly listens to audiobooks while following along with the paper book, but some books aren't available in audiobook or even e-book form, and all of the existing apps we tried were surprisingly bad at scanning paper books into audio — they make lots of mistakes, include footnotes and page numbers, etc., in a way that really degrades the experience.<p>Being an AI-oriented engineer by training, I had a crack at solving the problem myself, and was pleasantly surprised at how well the proof of concept worked. I then had some time free while shutting down my previous company (Mezli, YC W21), during which I polished up the app to the point you see it at now.<p>The way it works:<p>On the front end, it's a SwiftUI app (mostly written by ChatGPT!) that consists mostly of a document scanner (VNDocumentCameraViewController) and a custom-built audio player.<p>The back end is more complex — book photos are first sent to an OCR API, then some custom code I wrote does a first pass at stitching together and correcting the results. Then, the corrected OCR results are sent to GPT-3.5-turbo for further post-processing and re-stitching together, and finally to a text-to-speech API for conversion to audio.<p>The hardest part of this process was actually getting the GPT calls right — I ended up writing a custom LLM eval framework for making sure the LLM wasn't making edits relative to the true text of the book.<p>A few issues remain, which I'll work on fixing if the app gets a significant amount of traction, including:<p>1) It can take multiple minutes to get audio back from a scan, especially if it's on the longer side (10+ pages). I'll be able to bring this down by spinning up dedicated servers for the OCR and TTS back-end.<p>2) The LLM sometimes does TOO good of a job at correcting "mistakes" in book text. This issue crops up particularly often when an author deliberately uses improper grammar, e.g. in dialogue.<p>The app is priced at $9.99/month for up to 250 pages/month right now, which I estimate will just about cover the costs of API calls. I'll be bringing the price point down as the pricing of the required AI APIs comes down. There's also a 3-day free trial if you want to try it out.<p>If you do find this useful, or know somebody who might, I'd appreciate you giving it a try or letting them know! And please let me know if you have any feedback, including issues or feature requests.
Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments
Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments
Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments
Show HN: Tokamak – Server-side framework for Zig
Show HN: Tokamak – Server-side framework for Zig
Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software
Hello HN!<p>I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (<a href="https://goodenough.us" rel="nofollow">https://goodenough.us</a>) built over the past month.<p>Pika! <a href="https://pika.page" rel="nofollow">https://pika.page</a><p>I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I dislike the SSG experience so much that before convincing the team to build Pika with me, I was actually blogging by writing straight HTML!<p>Pika is about simplifying blogging down to writing. Pika provides a great editor that doesn't _require_ Markdown (but accepts it) and a light bit of easy-to-use customizability without distracting you. With that baseline, we hope Pika can be a nice place for semi-technical folks to start or continue their blogging journey without all of the fiddly bits. In the longer term we'd like to make blogging more and more accessible to those who are non-technical, and we will grow our feature set and UX accordingly.<p>We would love to hear thoughts from anyone that is an active blogger or considering starting a blog. Also, if you know someone who is on the hunt for easy, beautiful blogging software we'd appreciate you letting them know about Pika. Thank you!
Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software
Hello HN!<p>I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (<a href="https://goodenough.us" rel="nofollow">https://goodenough.us</a>) built over the past month.<p>Pika! <a href="https://pika.page" rel="nofollow">https://pika.page</a><p>I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I dislike the SSG experience so much that before convincing the team to build Pika with me, I was actually blogging by writing straight HTML!<p>Pika is about simplifying blogging down to writing. Pika provides a great editor that doesn't _require_ Markdown (but accepts it) and a light bit of easy-to-use customizability without distracting you. With that baseline, we hope Pika can be a nice place for semi-technical folks to start or continue their blogging journey without all of the fiddly bits. In the longer term we'd like to make blogging more and more accessible to those who are non-technical, and we will grow our feature set and UX accordingly.<p>We would love to hear thoughts from anyone that is an active blogger or considering starting a blog. Also, if you know someone who is on the hunt for easy, beautiful blogging software we'd appreciate you letting them know about Pika. Thank you!
Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software
Hello HN!<p>I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (<a href="https://goodenough.us" rel="nofollow">https://goodenough.us</a>) built over the past month.<p>Pika! <a href="https://pika.page" rel="nofollow">https://pika.page</a><p>I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I dislike the SSG experience so much that before convincing the team to build Pika with me, I was actually blogging by writing straight HTML!<p>Pika is about simplifying blogging down to writing. Pika provides a great editor that doesn't _require_ Markdown (but accepts it) and a light bit of easy-to-use customizability without distracting you. With that baseline, we hope Pika can be a nice place for semi-technical folks to start or continue their blogging journey without all of the fiddly bits. In the longer term we'd like to make blogging more and more accessible to those who are non-technical, and we will grow our feature set and UX accordingly.<p>We would love to hear thoughts from anyone that is an active blogger or considering starting a blog. Also, if you know someone who is on the hunt for easy, beautiful blogging software we'd appreciate you letting them know about Pika. Thank you!
Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
Tech stack: Go + templ + htmx<p>There are some rough edges but this combo is quite refreshing after React. The best thing is that I could omit npm from my stack. Having just a monolith (Go) server greatly simplifies things if you're an indie dev.
Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
Tech stack: Go + templ + htmx<p>There are some rough edges but this combo is quite refreshing after React. The best thing is that I could omit npm from my stack. Having just a monolith (Go) server greatly simplifies things if you're an indie dev.
Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
Tech stack: Go + templ + htmx<p>There are some rough edges but this combo is quite refreshing after React. The best thing is that I could omit npm from my stack. Having just a monolith (Go) server greatly simplifies things if you're an indie dev.