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URI HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
jmknoll wrote 1 hour 33 min ago:
Alright, but DocuQuest is actually a really good idea.
"DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify
complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly
learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers."
WA wrote 1 hour 17 min ago:
I recently found a vibe-coded app that generates courses on the fly
from YouTube, including automatically generated quizzes. I forgot the
URL, but the result was beyond awful. Questions were something like:
"what was the title of the youtube video?" and other utterly stupid
things.
Not saying that it isn't possible, but stuff like this does need the
human touch.
Bjartr wrote 2 hours 8 min ago:
> DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify
complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly
learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers.
So "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Diamond Age, but for devs.
A neat idea!
In general docs ecosystems tend to be heavy on only one of reference /
explanation / tutorial. Would be cool to have a way to write one and
get the others.
ludicrousdispla wrote 2 hours 29 min ago:
Disruptive 'infra' startup offering connectivity between two or more
3rd party endpoints.
gloosx wrote 2 hours 33 min ago:
Uh-oh, sorry Josh for burning your anthropic credits, it was fun while
it lasted!
davidjhall wrote 2 hours 34 min ago:
Very cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I
feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month
would've been "powered by rust."
jpl56 wrote 2 hours 36 min ago:
Ideascope: An AI-powered platform that generates personalized,
innovative startup ideas by analyzing real-time trends and data from
Hacker News and other tech communities
Yep, I think this may be possible :p
BiraIgnacio wrote 2 hours 46 min ago:
This is awesome, thanks :D
BlindEyeHalo wrote 2 hours 58 min ago:
Claude API error:
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credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to
Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits."}}
jshchnz wrote 16 min ago:
Sorry about that, was sleeping and this got on the front page again,
just upped the credit balance to fix!
ActionHank wrote 1 hour 20 min ago:
This is poetic, because AI will become inaccessible pricing-wise and
all these AI slop shops are going to have a hard time keeping
customers.
jerf wrote 1 hour 21 min ago:
Really should have been some caching involved. We didn't all need our
own personal slop.
throwanem wrote 2 hours 49 min ago:
SlopCharger: Broker free-tier accounts with fly-by-night AI providers
cross-matched with the latest in prompt exploits to enable new
billing efficiencies by running your HN AI shitpost on someone else's
one-fiftieth of a dime! :sparkles:
amelius wrote 3 hours 3 min ago:
Next step: an AI that generates patents.
tdiff wrote 3 hours 6 min ago:
Perhaps another reminder that ideas per se are not very valuable.
amelius wrote 3 hours 5 min ago:
Ideas are valuable. Code can be written by AIs (and thus less
valuable).
tdiff wrote 3 hours 2 min ago:
Code itself is not very valuable as well. What has value is the
combination of all those things and application of them to some
real problem in a form of complete solution.
amelius wrote 2 hours 6 min ago:
Of course they have value but the code and the application are
just a logical consequence of the ideas, so that's where the real
value lies.
amelius wrote 4 hours 40 min ago:
This reminds me of [1] which was much more fun, probably because the
ideas came from actual humans.
URI [1]: https://www.halfbakery.com/
throwanem wrote 2 hours 49 min ago:
Technically, so do these.
piotraleksander wrote 5 hours 18 min ago:
I'm surprised there is no leaderboard idea containing word 'vibe'
ForgotMyUUID wrote 7 hours 52 min ago:
>Biomech Innovations: A wearable tech startup that uses genetic
algorithms and AI to help zebrafish regenerate damaged organs, with a
secrets management platform to securely store user data and a
retro-futuristic assembly-level code editor for custom hardware
designs.
Instant fun! Honestly, whatever tech I look for, I use built-in search
engine of Hacker News first before googling it.
keyle wrote 8 hours 31 min ago:
Amusing, and shockingly I wouldn't be surprised to read any of the
ideas it has generated on HN tomorrow...
antonvs wrote 7 hours 53 min ago:
I was going to say, is this really any different than Y Combinator
Slop?
fakedang wrote 5 hours 27 min ago:
YC could literally replace RFS with this and it wouldn't make a
difference lol.
kdrvr wrote 8 hours 40 min ago:
This is AI at its peak lol
throwawayoldie wrote 30 min ago:
Let's hope.
redsparrow wrote 11 hours 48 min ago:
SwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear
words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear
words into a liquid damping system to stabilize skyscrapers during
earthquakes.
capt_obvious_77 wrote 5 hours 35 min ago:
Those silly architects never thought of this.
throwanem wrote 2 hours 44 min ago:
A building that requires human pain to stand? I guarantee you this
is something at least a few architects have fantasized at length
about. Like ours, it seems to be a profession that attracts
outliers.
jshchnz wrote 17 hours 38 min ago:
i was not expecting people to like the startup ideas so much, but it's
a pleasant surprise!
i thought it'd be cool to let people vote on ideas that HN Slop came up
with, so now you'll see an "i'd invest" button & that will let others
vote on the idea on a leaderboard
hope y'all like it, keep sending the feedback, I'm listening!
jeffwass wrote 18 hours 6 min ago:
LOL, the idea it just pitched me was inspired by the HN Slop submission
itself!
jshchnz wrote 17 hours 15 min ago:
I've been waiting for that to happen!!! Did you save the idea?
deivid wrote 7 hours 43 min ago:
> CosmicPlay: A startup that leverages GPU emulation and graph
theory to build a next-generation video game engine that can render
celestial bodies with nuclear propulsion and solar sailing
capabilities, while generating AI-powered gameplay ideas from
Hacker News posts
wanderingstan wrote 18 hours 46 min ago:
Feature request: option to select a year so you can get retro startup
ideas from e.g. web 2 or crypto-mania eras!
mittermayr wrote 18 hours 47 min ago:
This should be connected to [1] to get an available domain for each one
of the ideas. It's all coming together :)
URI [1]: https://comsensei.com
oceanhaiyang wrote 2 hours 34 min ago:
I like how I submit a request and it never loads.
nusl wrote 5 hours 54 min ago:
You're promoting your own website based on AI-generated things on a
Hacker News post aimed at generating AI slop.
mittermayr wrote 2 hours 52 min ago:
I've received nothing but nice messages about the site after
posting it and people seem to be getting a kick out of it. I feel
like this (if barely so) meets the bar to give it a pass perhaps,
especially considering that my voice is worth as much as yours and
the next person, so without upvotes, it will disappear, just how
it's meant to be. Hope that helps a bit.
mouse_ wrote 4 hours 1 min ago:
good for him i hope he makes it
fennecbutt wrote 3 hours 39 min ago:
Where do we draw the line at self promotion (advertising) then?
mouse_ wrote 3 hours 13 min ago:
As long as it's not apparently being done by a bot, who cares?
This is effectively an advertising website.
mrd3v0 wrote 3 hours 4 min ago:
> not apparently being done by a bot
LLMs will make this very hard to detect, very soon if not
already.
haswell wrote 3 hours 7 min ago:
This is not primarily an advertising site. See guidelines:
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to
post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of
the site should be for curiosity.
nmilo wrote 24 min ago:
> It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time
trevor-e wrote 18 hours 55 min ago:
>SciDigest: An AI-powered platform that transforms complex scientific
research into engaging, digestible content for the general public,
making scientific knowledge accessible and actionable.
This would actually be great. So many researchers have a marketing
problem with explaining and getting people excited for their work.
bookofjoe wrote 2 hours 6 min ago:
URI [1]: https://www.comunicarestiintifica.ro/en/category/scidigest/
falcor84 wrote 4 hours 34 min ago:
I've been using the NotebookLM "podcasts" for this. I upload an arxiv
pdf and use the Interactive Mode to have them talk about it, while I
can pause them to ask clarifying questions. It's been surprisingly
efficient for me to get an initial grasp on things I'm not familiar
with, at times prompting me to then go on exploring interesting
rabbit holes.
dax_ wrote 4 hours 47 min ago:
I'm 99% sure I already saw a product launch on HN for precisely this
idea.
janpmz wrote 7 hours 3 min ago:
I've attempted this with pdftomp3.com where you can listen to PDFs.
It has an "AI Explanation" mode where the content of the PDF gets
explained. Its like a NotbookLM podcast, but I was earlier :)
Currently I'm working on an app for that, because thats where I
listen to the MP3s anyways.
IsHeInFarside wrote 18 hours 21 min ago:
I am trying to do this, trying to generalize a workflow that at least
has helped me grok a few papers.
thicknavyrain wrote 18 hours 38 min ago:
I'm a popular science writer with eight year's experience doing
exactly this (SciShow, Crash Course, Veritasium and recent winner of
the Wellcome Collection Non Fiction Awards) without AI. Done right,
the right coverage of even a pre-print reached hundreds of
thousands/millions of people. But I've experimented with every SOTA
model since 2022 with the most detailed and specific prompting I can
think of (including multiple examples of transcripts of work already
in the public domain) to see if it can replicate good quality science
communication.
The content is usually reasonably strong but the tone is always off
and it never quite understands what it is a reader/viewer needs to
really get to grips with the topic if they don't already have a prior
foundational understanding (though I notice this about a lot of other
media outlets with professional science communicators too). It also
has poor editorial thinking around what bits are most likely to be
interesting and cohesive when considered as part of the whole piece.
But I'm still reasonably convinced as AI improves it ought to be able
to replace me with the right workflow/context/prompting. I think
there will always be a demand for my (and many other writers')
talents as they are so it doesn't really bother me, but it'd be great
to extend the work to all the many scientific discoveries that don't
get the same attention. If anyone is serious about developing
something like this, I'd be interested in partnering with them as
someone with domain expertise on science communication and familiar
with prompt engineering (email in bio).
thekracken wrote 7 hours 43 min ago:
>I've experimented with every SOTA model since 2022
>The content is usually reasonably strong but the tone is always
off and it never quite understands what it is a reader/viewer needs
A SOTA model fine-tuned with your choice of transcripts could
probably get you most of the way there. There might be a
customized, open-weight model already on Huggingface that meets
your needs.
antonvs wrote 7 hours 49 min ago:
One question is whether the audience is discerning enough to care
about the issues you're raising. This seems like it could be a
variation of why the umpteenth Marvel movie beats out indie
masterpieces at the box office. The audience for high quality
becomes increasingly niche as the market's relatively low bar for
quality is satisfied.
trevor-e wrote 18 hours 26 min ago:
That's super cool, I love the SciShow videos.
I think you're right about the editorial thinking + what do people
find interesting parts. But that doesn't have to be solved by
directly by AI, it's easy enough to sidestep the problem and
provide a nice interface for the human-in-the-loop part. I'd
imagine that would save you a ton of time by having a nice starting
point depending on how much you have to rewrite for tone.
thicknavyrain wrote 18 hours 19 min ago:
That's true, it could just turn the writer's role into more of an
editorial role. The main time-saving I have so far is being able
to upload papers and get it to fact check for me. The editorial
guidelines at SciShow are stricter than any academic journal I've
published in: any non-trivial statement has to be supported by a
direct, findable quote in (most-of-the-time) peer-reviewed
scientific literature. I once had to find a citation for the idea
that heat + fuel + oxygen generates a fire! (for this video: [1]
)
LLMs make that much easier. As I collect primary sources during
my drafting/writing phrase, I can type up any non-trivial claims
I'm making in my script in a separate document, share that with
the LLM and say "Quoting directly from the set of attached PDFs,
identifying which document, and on which page the quote comes
from, find content which directly supports each of these
assertions" and it generally goes a great job. At any rate, I
have to check each of those quotes for accuracy but the help in
_finding_ those quotes in order to pass a stringent fact checking
procedure is a huge help if I didn't scribble down the supporting
quotes during my research phase. This is also, by the way,
stricter than the fact checking process for most non-fiction
publishing.
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcaE0e0CZg
thekracken wrote 7 hours 38 min ago:
>SciShow are stricter than any academic journal I've published
in
Now there's a testimonial. I look forward to browsing the
source links with each video!
notahacker wrote 18 hours 31 min ago:
Feels like there might be an accuracy issue as well. Although that
might make it perfectly suited to replacing whoever writes
university press releases...
butz wrote 18 hours 58 min ago:
Lets not waste your $0.0005 and share this pretty decent idea with
everyone:
> Graphene Labs: A decentralized, open-source platform for creating and
sharing interactive data visualizations and infrastructure diagrams
that can be hosted locally and integrated with real-time data sources
shannifin wrote 19 hours 1 min ago:
Ha! Fun stuff. While some ideas are actually intriguing, many if its
suggestions seem to be overly vague jumbles of common phrases and
technology. "AI-powered databases to leverage personalized
accessibility for team management..." Lol. Still fun though.
ryandrake wrote 18 hours 58 min ago:
No worse than a lot of actual companies. I would be totally
unsurprised to see that description about a real startup.
paulhodge wrote 21 hours 2 min ago:
Very fun and some of these ideas are.. actually not terrible.
riku_iki wrote 21 hours 55 min ago:
would be great if I could provide prompt/context, for example
specifying domain and scope instead of getting random proposals.
GuinansEyebrows wrote 23 hours 2 min ago:
when I make snarky comments about AI Startup Ideas from Hacker News,
dang spanks me. guess i need to make a webapp to do it for me instead
:)
chandureddyvari wrote 23 hours 3 min ago:
Getting rate limit error - This request would exceed the rate limit for
your organization
You should use something like openrouter or portkey or similar for
managing fallbacks
echelon wrote 19 hours 11 min ago:
> openrouter
What pieces of openrouter are open source? I checked out their main
github repo, and it hasn't had any contributions in months.
esseph wrote 19 hours 0 min ago:
Every time I read OpenRouter I think FRR [1] Wish they would have
used a different name.
URI [1]: https://frrouting.org/
jshchnz wrote 23 hours 0 min ago:
wasn't expecting this to get so big so quick, fixing now
jshchnz wrote 22 hours 53 min ago:
should be fixed, sorry about that! should alternate between a
couple models now
thank kier for claude code
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