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Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Richard Montgomery (rm@propbox.co). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Richard Montgomery (rm@propbox.co). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Richard Montgomery (rm@propbox.co). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Richard Montgomery (rm@propbox.co). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
Show HN: AskYoutube – Ask YouTube Anything
Hi everyone, I built this recently and found myself and my friends using it for various different things so I figured I'd share it here.<p>It uses LLMs to answer queries from videos so you don't have to watch them yourself! Each video found is also included with a summary of its transcript for further exploration. Most importantly, it uses up-to-date videos and can answer question about real and recent things unlike ChatGPT.<p>It is particularly useful for:<p>1. Getting up to date information about the news from different sources
E.g.<p>- What are the features of the recently released Apple Vision Pro?<p>- How many people were evacuated from the recent eruption in Hawaii?<p>2. Product reviews
E.g.<p>- What's the best vegan & cruelty-free skin cream?<p>- What is best GPU for deep learning in 2023?<p>3. Learning about a specific topic
E.g.<p>- What are the requirements for the commercial pilot's license?<p>- How do I do a cartwheel?<p>Let me know what you tried and submit feedback in the interface, I read all of them! Also do include your email if you want a follow up for your feedback<p>Email: askutubeai@gmail.com
Show HN: Chronological List of All the James Webb Telescope Discoveries
Show HN: Chronological List of All the James Webb Telescope Discoveries
Show HN: Horizontal News, a column-based Hacker News reader
Show HN: Discuit – A Reddit alternative with a clean UI and a sensible vision
Hi HN, this is a platform (Discuit, pronounced "diskette") I've been working on for about two years. I initially built it for a niche demographic (my native country). But now with Reddit going dark and people looking for a new place to migrate to, I'm doing a quick launch today.<p>A few quick things:<p>1. I don't believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they're too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated.<p>2. I don't know what the best way of monetizing a thing like this is. I see only two options: the Wikipedia model of running on donations, or being advertising supported (along with a paid ad-free tier). The Wikipedia model works quite well for small-scale and bandwidth light projects, but I don't think a large social media platform can ever be funded that way.<p>3. Whichever option of monetization I take (if this takes off, that is) what I can say with certainty is that this will not go down the path of previous platforms. I don't believe the SV grow-fast model has worked very well for the end users. I have no interest in chasing growth for its own sake, or in chasing valuations, or in capturing as much attention from the users as possible. On this platform, therefore, there <i>never</i> will be any dark UI patterns. Avoiding enshittification is a primary goal of mine.<p>4. My vision for this platform, and for social media in general, is about giving users agency; the freedom to choose their social experience to their liking. What this would mean in practice are things like: ability to customize the UI; ability to filter content as one wants; ability to tweak recommendation algorithms; ability to turn on and off things like infinite scroll and suggested posts; and so on. I hate how all the current platforms want to tightly control my experience for me.<p>I go into all this in a bit more detail in my introductory blog post: <a href="https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit</a><p>I know many HN users hate the New Reddit layout, which is what I've based this site on, but don't be bothered by it too much, I will be adding a much more compact layout sometime later.
Show HN: Discuit – A Reddit alternative with a clean UI and a sensible vision
Hi HN, this is a platform (Discuit, pronounced "diskette") I've been working on for about two years. I initially built it for a niche demographic (my native country). But now with Reddit going dark and people looking for a new place to migrate to, I'm doing a quick launch today.<p>A few quick things:<p>1. I don't believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they're too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated.<p>2. I don't know what the best way of monetizing a thing like this is. I see only two options: the Wikipedia model of running on donations, or being advertising supported (along with a paid ad-free tier). The Wikipedia model works quite well for small-scale and bandwidth light projects, but I don't think a large social media platform can ever be funded that way.<p>3. Whichever option of monetization I take (if this takes off, that is) what I can say with certainty is that this will not go down the path of previous platforms. I don't believe the SV grow-fast model has worked very well for the end users. I have no interest in chasing growth for its own sake, or in chasing valuations, or in capturing as much attention from the users as possible. On this platform, therefore, there <i>never</i> will be any dark UI patterns. Avoiding enshittification is a primary goal of mine.<p>4. My vision for this platform, and for social media in general, is about giving users agency; the freedom to choose their social experience to their liking. What this would mean in practice are things like: ability to customize the UI; ability to filter content as one wants; ability to tweak recommendation algorithms; ability to turn on and off things like infinite scroll and suggested posts; and so on. I hate how all the current platforms want to tightly control my experience for me.<p>I go into all this in a bit more detail in my introductory blog post: <a href="https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit</a><p>I know many HN users hate the New Reddit layout, which is what I've based this site on, but don't be bothered by it too much, I will be adding a much more compact layout sometime later.
Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
Show HN: My first full stack project
Just finished my second year at college studying Computer Science, and wanted to try and gain experience as a full stack dev this summer, so I made a website that allows users to create stories using openai's API, using embeddings for custom terms users can define, and create short stories and chapters alike. I'm mainly just looking for some feedback on how I can improve it or make it more presentable, so any help/feedback is welcome and appreciated!
Show HN: My first full stack project
Just finished my second year at college studying Computer Science, and wanted to try and gain experience as a full stack dev this summer, so I made a website that allows users to create stories using openai's API, using embeddings for custom terms users can define, and create short stories and chapters alike. I'm mainly just looking for some feedback on how I can improve it or make it more presentable, so any help/feedback is welcome and appreciated!
Show HN: My first full stack project
Just finished my second year at college studying Computer Science, and wanted to try and gain experience as a full stack dev this summer, so I made a website that allows users to create stories using openai's API, using embeddings for custom terms users can define, and create short stories and chapters alike. I'm mainly just looking for some feedback on how I can improve it or make it more presentable, so any help/feedback is welcome and appreciated!
Show HN: FFmpeg UI
A user interface to quickly and easily convert media files using FFMPEG behind the scenes.
Show HN: FFmpeg UI
A user interface to quickly and easily convert media files using FFMPEG behind the scenes.
Show HN: Agency – Unifying human, AI, and other computing systems, in Python
Hello hackernews! I'm excited to share a new open source python library I just released for creating AI agent-integrated systems.<p>The name is `agency`. It differs from other agent libraries, most importantly in that it's intended to address a distinct part of the overall problem, that of agent integration. It is not an agent toolchain like LangChain and others.<p>`agency` is a framework intended for safely integrating agents with computing systems and humans in a way that all parties can easily understand and communicate with each other.<p>I've spent a lot of time on the readme which contains a detailed and working walkthrough of building an agent integrated system that includes multiple types of agents, operating system integration, access control, and a flask+react based web application where users can appear as individual "agents" as well.<p>Also worth noting is that I _just_ pushed an update to integrate with the new functions support on the OpenAI API! (<a href="https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...</a>)<p>I'm eager to hear what people think! I developed this in order to build a foundation for some of my own ambitious ideas. If you find this useful for your own projects I'd love to know!<p>Thanks for checking it out! I hope this helps you build amazing things!