This is like "all it takes is one lottery ticket that wins".
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andupotorac commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
> Engineers need to really lean in to the change in my opinion.
I tried leaning in. I really tried. I'm not a web developer or game developer (more robotics, embedded systems). I tried vibe coding web apps and games. They were pretty boring. I got frustrated that I couldn't change little things. I remember getting frustrated that my game character kept getting stuck on imaginary walls and kept asking Cursor to fix it and it just made more and more of a mess. I remember making a simple front-end + backend with a database app to analyze thousands of pull request comments and it got massively slow and I didn't know why. Cursor wasn't very helpful in fixing it. I felt dumber after the whole process.
The next time I made a web app I just taught myself Flask and some basic JS and I found myself moving way more quickly. Not in the initial development, but later on when I had to tweak things.
The AI helped me a ton with looking things up: documentation, error messages, etc. It's essentially a supercharged Google search and Stack Overflow replacement, but I did not find it useful letting it take the wheel.
When they say skill issue, they mean it. Have you spent at least 4-5 hours on specs (mermaid, markdown)?
andupotorac commented on · Posted by u/andupotorac
Your post gained no traction because it's [dead]. All you've ever posted is your own website.
> 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.
It is following the same approach everyone takes when posting what they built, and sharing links. Or what is it doing differently?
andupotorac commented on · Posted by u/andupotorac
> But now I know - lack of audience or the wrong audience != invalidation. And more importantly she validated this and I can finally focus on that specific cluster of customers.
Support or interaction != idea is valid.
Conversely, lack of support or interaction != idea is invalid.
> So thanks for nothing Hacker News.
That's not very nice.
"So thanks for nothing Hacker News." cut out the emojis :-)
That's a cool Idea. Well you should support more festivals.
Festivals? :)
This is a use-case, but the idea is anyone can now add "Take a photo" to their site, instead of letting users upload photos. Even without the AI gen part.
andupotorac commented on Show HN: I made a drop-in Voice Mode for AI startups memoreco.com/explainers/v... · Posted by u/andupotorac
Added support for Playwright, so that the LLM can get the screenshot of the page the user wants to copy. While this seems like a small thing, what is required to build it, and what the difference in the output is are quite large.
Here are some examples of different tools, compared to Same.dev that also captures screenshots of pages - and all the others.