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Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT

Hi, I'm Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it's been nine weeks since I started.<p>I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.<p>It's a Chrome extension, and I'm offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I'm not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman's podcasts are incredibly long.<p>I'm one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, "Oh, it doesn't solve this problem yet; let's wait for GPT-4". The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.<p>I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I've invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people's prompts too!

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (<a href="https://www.pi-a.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pi-a.io</a>) which developed Lungy (<a href="https://www.lungy.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.lungy.app</a>). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU.<p>My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and they are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!<p>The visuals are mostly built using Metal, with one or two using SpriteKit. There are 20 to choose from, including boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music).<p>There are obviously lots of breathing and meditation apps out there, I wanted Lungy to be different - it's about tuning into your surroundings and noticing the world around you, so all the visuals are nature-inspired or have some reference to the physical world. I didn’t like other apps required large downloads and/or a wifi connection, so Lungy’s download size is very small (<50MB), with no geometry, video or audio files.<p>Lungy is initially a wellness app, but I’d like to develop a medical device version for patients with breathing problems such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) & long COVID. Thanks for reading - would love to hear feedback!

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (<a href="https://www.pi-a.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pi-a.io</a>) which developed Lungy (<a href="https://www.lungy.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.lungy.app</a>). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU.<p>My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and they are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!<p>The visuals are mostly built using Metal, with one or two using SpriteKit. There are 20 to choose from, including boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music).<p>There are obviously lots of breathing and meditation apps out there, I wanted Lungy to be different - it's about tuning into your surroundings and noticing the world around you, so all the visuals are nature-inspired or have some reference to the physical world. I didn’t like other apps required large downloads and/or a wifi connection, so Lungy’s download size is very small (<50MB), with no geometry, video or audio files.<p>Lungy is initially a wellness app, but I’d like to develop a medical device version for patients with breathing problems such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) & long COVID. Thanks for reading - would love to hear feedback!

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (<a href="https://www.pi-a.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pi-a.io</a>) which developed Lungy (<a href="https://www.lungy.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.lungy.app</a>). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU.<p>My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and they are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!<p>The visuals are mostly built using Metal, with one or two using SpriteKit. There are 20 to choose from, including boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music).<p>There are obviously lots of breathing and meditation apps out there, I wanted Lungy to be different - it's about tuning into your surroundings and noticing the world around you, so all the visuals are nature-inspired or have some reference to the physical world. I didn’t like other apps required large downloads and/or a wifi connection, so Lungy’s download size is very small (<50MB), with no geometry, video or audio files.<p>Lungy is initially a wellness app, but I’d like to develop a medical device version for patients with breathing problems such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) & long COVID. Thanks for reading - would love to hear feedback!

Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

Hey, HN community,<p>We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters.<p>Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified. You can adjust the services and steps depending on what you actually need to automate in your business.<p>Even though some existing cloud solutions do the job well enough, we still wanted to build an open-source and self-hosted alternative to those. Because it allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<p>You can see the available integrations here (<a href="https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps</a>). We currently have limited integrations but are constantly working on adding more and enhancing the existing ones. You can also request a new integration by using GitHub discussions: (<a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categories/integration-request">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...</a>).<p>You can use the following links to check it out:<p>Website: <a href="https://automatisch.io" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io</a> Docs: <a href="https://automatisch.io/docs" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs</a> GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch</a><p>Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback, and if you like what we are doing with Automatisch, please give us a star on GitHub.<p>Cheers!

Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

Hey, HN community,<p>We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters.<p>Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified. You can adjust the services and steps depending on what you actually need to automate in your business.<p>Even though some existing cloud solutions do the job well enough, we still wanted to build an open-source and self-hosted alternative to those. Because it allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<p>You can see the available integrations here (<a href="https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps</a>). We currently have limited integrations but are constantly working on adding more and enhancing the existing ones. You can also request a new integration by using GitHub discussions: (<a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categories/integration-request">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...</a>).<p>You can use the following links to check it out:<p>Website: <a href="https://automatisch.io" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io</a> Docs: <a href="https://automatisch.io/docs" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs</a> GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch</a><p>Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback, and if you like what we are doing with Automatisch, please give us a star on GitHub.<p>Cheers!

Show HN: A simple world flags game, my first web dev project as a beginner

Show HN: A simple world flags game, my first web dev project as a beginner

Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations.<p>The plot was sourced from a group of friends.

Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations.<p>The plot was sourced from a group of friends.

Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel

The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update.<p>The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component.<p>Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies to use. It unlocks most features, but it isn't intended for companies with more than 5 employees or over $1M in annual revenue.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and am happy to answer any technical questions about how QueryStorm is implemented.

Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel

The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update.<p>The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component.<p>Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies to use. It unlocks most features, but it isn't intended for companies with more than 5 employees or over $1M in annual revenue.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and am happy to answer any technical questions about how QueryStorm is implemented.

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.<p>I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.<p>Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.<p>I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.<p>Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.

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Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make: Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a> Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.

Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make: Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a> Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.

Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make: Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a> Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.

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