Wow - had no idea this was possible!
That’s awesome. Going to add this change to my Kobo - I already self host a bunch of stuff on a Pi, will add Calibre to the list
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That’s awesome. Going to add this change to my Kobo - I already self host a bunch of stuff on a Pi, will add Calibre to the list
However, to some extent I do agree. For example, when learning to play the guitar, it’s important to learn to exert just the right amount of effort to place on the strings. When typing on a keyboard, I have a habit of pressing way too hard and I realized this lead to a lot of hand pain.
So saying zero effort might be an incorrect title - maybe saying “using just the right amount of effort” would be more accurate
That's a good point - we actually do have keyboard shortcuts but their discovery is definitely lacking! Using the return key as the default seems more intuitive - thanks for the suggestion!
Spent 6 months building the product. Now I’m focusing on marketing and branding.
I’ve spent last few weeks studying other successful educational products.
And so far, from my research, pretty much every single one of these apps/sites prioritized making the user “feel good” about learning rather than actually learning.
And unfortunately, this is what the users want. They want to feel good about learning.
All the successful education sites employ these mechanisms that you’re intending to avoid. I wanted to avoid using these as well - but I just don’t see another way. I’ve even had users explicitly ask me to add milestones, streaks, etc to motivate them.
Reality is - most people who really want to study or learn anything, can do so without an app. Even a book from a library will do. But it requires tremendous consistency, effort and time. Apps are way easier and make the user feel good - there’s still learning being done, don’t get me wrong. But user feeling good about it is what keeps them coming back.
Edit: I’ve also studied many of their ads. Often times on places like TikTok, Instagram, etc their ads are what I would call “intelligence porn”. They get you excited about being more intelligent, investing in yourself, intelligence eliticism, etc. These were a common ad strategy that I have discovered so far.
Some apps literally ran ads with text: “become dangerously intelligent” text and had the song from the show Succession play with images of famous researchers and scientists changing quickly. (Newton, Einstein, etc). Stuff like this cracked me up tbh lol. But apparently it works
This is something that started as a passion project - I wanted to see just how effective of a typing application I could make to help people improve typing speed quickly.
It’s very data driven and personalized. We analyze a lot of key weak points about a user’s typing and generate natural text (using LLMs) that target multiple key weak points at once.
Additionally we have a lot of typing modes.
- Code typing practice; we support 20+ programming languages - daily typing test - target practice; click on on any stat in the results and we generate natural text that uses a lot of that (bigrams, trigrams, words, fingers, etc).
We use SVGs on https://typequicker.com/press for the blog post hero images.
This way - even if the user changes themes, the colors of the image will be consistent with whatever theme is currently active. Also - the loading time is near-instant since we don't need to fetch the img file for the blog post image - just render the svg.
Just skimming throught the first two paragraphs felt like I as reading a ChatGPT response. That and the fact that there's multiple em dashes in the intro alone.
There’s already popular subreddits (something blursed ai I think) where people upload this type of content and it’s getting decent engagement it seems
I’m under the impression that people who are still saying LLMs are unimpressive might just be not using them correctly/effectively.
Or as Primagean says: “skill issue”
> It’s more chaotic and demanding than it looks, but also more rewarding in ways you don’t expect.
The first few lines immediately captured my attention because that's exactly how I've been feeling since going solo.
I left my big tech job about 5 months ago and started building my app - it's been a roller-coaster and I think this write-up summarizes how I've been feeling really well. I especially relate with the "constant decision making" - this can get exhausting; I definitely get decision fatigue frequently lol
It’s a cyberpunk anime where society uses a system called the Sibyl System to constantly scan people’s mental states and “crime potential” (their Psycho-Pass).
People can be arrested before they’ve done anything - just because the system picked up certain signals from them.
Very, very interesting idea
This is what you said - and I didn’t make this claim. I specifically said that in “my domain”. Meaning a code base I know fully well and own, and it’s a language, framework and patterns that I’ve worked with for years.
For certain things - yes, it’s faster to do myself than write a long prompt with context (or a predefined one) because it’s faster to express what I want with the code than natural language.
I also have a personal rule that I will try something for at least 4 months actively before making my decision about it (programming language, new tools, or in this case AI assisted coding)
I made the claim that in my area of expertise - I have found that *most of the time it is faster to write something myself than I write out really detailed md file / prompt. It becomes more tedious to express myself via natural language then it is with code when I want something very specific done.
In these types of cases - writing the code myself, allows me to express the thing I want faster. Also, I like to code with the AI auto complete but still while this can be useful I sometimes disable it because it’s distracting and consistently incorrect with its predictions)
I’ve been actively using the first tier paid version of:
- GPT - Claude - Gemini
Usually it’s via the cli tool. (Codex, Claude code, Gemini cli)
I have a bunch of scripts setup that write to the tmux pane that has these chats open - so I’ll visually highlight something nvim and pipe that into either of the panes that have one of these tools open and start a discussion.
If I want it to read the full file, I’ll just use the TUIs search (they all use the @ prefix to search for files) and then discuss. If I want to pipe a few files, I’ll add the files I want to nvim quickfix list of literally pipe the files I want to a markdown file (with a full path) and discuss.
So yes - the chat interface in these cli tools mostly. I’m one of those devs that don’t leave the terminal much lol
One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools.
Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it becomes way faster to do it myself)
Just code and chill man - having spent the last 6 months really trying everything (all these context engineering strategies, agents, CLAUDE.md files on every directory, et, etc). It really easy still more productive to just code yourself if you know what you’re doing.
The thing I love most though - is having discussions with an LLM about an implementation, having it write some quick unit tests and performance tests for certain base cases, having it write a quick shell script, etc. things like this, it’s Amazing and makes me really enjoy programming since I save time and can focus on doing the actual fun stuff
My assumption is that pharma companies sponsor / use cases like this to advertise their drug via TV show mentions. Is this common? And is that the case with the White Lotus?
Why was lorazepam mentioned specifically. Could it have been any other anti-anxiety drug?
Is there a way to find out which companies are affiliated with which media productions? (Tv shows, movies, music, etc)
I generally just assume that a product name is never mentioned accidentally in any content online
I’ve always wanted a typing application that’s both more than typing random words and is data-focused so I built this.
The more you type, the more the analytics system learns about your typing patterns and generates natural text to target those weakpoints (SmartPractice mode).
There’s a lot of variety as well; you can practice typing code in any programming language, or type text of various topics, use custom text, etc).
No - it is a MacOS launcher app. This Spotlight but with quite a few more features and very extensible (especially if you code) and has a large open source extension community (mine is just one of many)
> does it run on Linux?
Sadly no, only Mac for now but I think they’re expanding to Windows and Linux on future.
> custom note types
Not really sadly :/
I want to add many improvements including this but I don’t have capacity right now - hands full with another project
I’m always very tempted to just build everything.
Example: We need a URL shortener - let me just put a basic one together over the weekend.
I’m always tempted to build vs buy.
My cofounder says sometimes that being an engineer founder can be bad for this reason - just because you can build something, doesn’t mean you should.
I’m a heavy Anki user but haven’t considered doing Anki while waiting on LLM responses.
Disclaimer: I’m also the creator of https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki
(Made it to make studying Anki cards and adding cards more convenient and more keyboard friendly)
Hoping to make the best typing application.
Key features:
- absolutely no ads; this an education tool
- SmartPractice: we use a time series db to track weakpoints (bigrams, individual characters, etc. their time to type and errors) and then select the most relevant ones to generate typing practice text
- advanced stats; after each session we provide the most detailed stats than any typing platform
This a passion project that turned to a business.
Hope you try it :)
Sorry, I’m not sure I follow - do you mean you type: () and then type within them?
Typing is an extremely underrated skill and especially in the age of LLMs, it is the bottle neck in a lot of cases.
I’ve never been fond of existing typing apps; excessive ads, typing random words, etc so I built my own.
You can practice typing code, use your own text, etc
We have a paid plan for features where you can type natural text that targets your weak points (via SmartPractice) and many others. Other than that, it’s both free to use (and ad-free)
https://opengraphexamples.com/
Collection of open graph image examples.