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At least Google models like Nano Banana Pro release Day 1 on https://fal.ai

I made a free Chrome extension that uses Fal api key if you want a UI instead of code

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/dogg...

Will that change also allow paying upfront ($250 or whatever) to bump up a tier?

I want to release a service using computer-use but am worried about 429 quota errors if I have actual users.

My workflow is transformed. If yours isn’t you’re missing out.

Days that I’d normally feel overwhelmed from requests by management are just Claude Code and chill days now.

Sir! Elon has responded to our pressure tactic. Your interview seems to have had an effect. "Well - what did he say?" It's better if you see for yourself.

GIF reply "why are you gae" (this was his actual response btw)

This is great, but I wouldn't consider a food to be "clean" just from this testing.

At a minimum it needs glyphosate testing. I suspect the avocado oil has no plastics but high glyphosate, it's one of the many reasons I only use high-quality olive oil and coconut oil in cooking.

Are you making an API?

I wouldn’t be using it for game dev - I want spritesheets of custom characters for a 2D animation maker agent.

Before everyone caught up:

    We are in a race to make a new God, and the company that wins the race will have omnipotent power beyond our comprehension. 

After everyone else caught up:

    The models come and go, some are SOTA in evals and some not.  What matters is our platform and market share.

I recently looked at source for Cline because I’m making my own coding agent and they use tools without using tools.

See how they request the agent to use xml to call tools: https://github.com/cline/cline/blob/main/src/core/prompts/sy...

And also: https://github.com/cline/cline/blob/main/src/core/Cline.ts

You didn't list the most important reason:

- Assume LLMs will be more intelligent and cheaper, and the cost of switching to a new LLM model is non-existent. How does improving the custom/heuristic compare in that future?

Same as last year - still making between $500 and $1k on SnipCSS. Didn't work on it for 6 months, but recently added Tailwind conversion:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcmap...

I'd try it out if you allowed paying $50 for some credits instead of requiring subscription.

Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos. $500 to see how well it works is too much.

Yeah that's been around for a while - I used node-canvas to generate frames to render to mp4 for my HTML canvas animation site:

https://www.superanimo.com

Looks like it would have been a lot easier if this existed back then. (haven't worked on the site for 5+ years)

I am the maker of SnipCSS. https://www.snipcss.com

Just like with other tools such as yt-dlp, the user is required to use it responsibly. As long as you don't copy text/images/svg, the only issue is going to be "trade dress" infringement since CSS styles are not copyrightable. (not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice)

Strange that this post made it to HN because I'm also releasing a Tailwind conversion this week. https://x.com/SnipCSS/status/1853586090164420639 I believe mine will be much better based on the blog post about this tool.

I can't believe this demo hasn't been deleted yet:

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1790089521985466587

Giggly, flirty AI voice demos were already weird, but now it's even creepier knowing the backstory of how they try to get their voices.

I must be an outlier - I'm in my 40s and haven't listened to former favorites like Radiohead forever.

Darkwave, Phonk, Witchhouse, Glitch Hop, KPop, and a lot of electronic music that crosses genres are what I listen to now.

That's extremely disappointing. They have time to build a Visual Studio Extension that competes with Cursor, but don't have time to release an API that would enable hundreds of new extensions/workflows.

Only reason I pay for ChatGPT Plus is because they have an API and I'm building products off of their API. I use Phind more for work, but I'm not going to pay anything unless they have an API.

Solo or small team devs who hate modern tooling. Good example is levelsio guy: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1750175827197567165

I'm also in that camp and still use jQuery.

My current SaaS is an extension that doesn't have much UI code https://www.snipcss.com, and my next SaaS will be a chatgpt powered web automation extension that has a good amount of UI. Both use jQuery.

Edit: I didn't say why I don't just use vanilla with querySelectorAll - majn reasons are I like how I can attach events (attaching to parent while targeting dynamically added subelements), chaining functions, and it's just less code than vanilla

I'm in Chicago - I pay for a personal office at a coworking space ($500 / mon)

To justify doing that I live in a dorm-type situation where I have shared bathroom and kitchen and only my large bedroom is private. ($800 / mon)

It's in Chinatown and because Chinese people generally keep to themselves, and I work 80 hour weeks (40 dayjob, 40 startup), it works out. When I was paying $1600 for a studio, I'd get annoyed when neighbors were regularly smoking weed. That's not a problem in Chinatown. No one smokes weed.

It's probably not for everyone - but doing both my dayjob and business from home wasn't working out. For a lot of people there's a mental switch if you have to travel and go to an office to do work. I'm one of those people. I just get more work done this way.

If you've been over there lately, it's more like they're converting a zombie-apocalypse mall into a Googler campus.

It was already dirty and decaying pre-pandemic, but now it looks exactly like something out of 'The Last of Us'.

I'm at $500/month for my side hustle Chrome extension SnipCSS: https://www.snipcss.com

I should do marketing, but instead I'm building another product - an AI (ChatGPT wrapper) to help automate marketing.

"If I force myself to do something I hate while having a full-time job, I'll just burn out" is what I say to myself. We'll see if procrastinating essential business tasks works out for me in the long run, lol.

Not exciting enough for a new consumer device.

OpenAI needs to leapfrog into robotics, that’s the only hardware that makes sense.

It just intercepts any files of "text/css" mime types appends them all together while also including the content of <style> tags.

If anyone wants something more specific that gets a section's CSS and all associated styles, I built an extension for that called SnipCSS.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma...

My extension doesn't download or parse CSS stylesheets to get styles, I use the Devtools protocol https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/CSS/

Oh man, this comment hits too close to home.

Spent 2+ years building my developer tool extension SnipCSS as a side project and I still only make $1K MRR.

You want to write 100k lines of code and make $1k / month? Sell a developer tool. You want $45k / mon, and travel the world? Sell shovels to influencers that exploit some trend.

Balancing marketing/sales with product development is one of my weaknesses, so I actually wrote a post about it on IndieHackers:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/my-product-has-been-launch...

That site also has a products page where you can search for solo founders making > $XXX revenue. There are tons of profitable solo SaaS.

Cloudflare doesn’t like my VPN so I get a lot of their challenges. Now whenever I see one I just close the tab.

Let’s say you run a SaaS using Cloudflare. You may be extremely happy you block 10000 bot requests for every false positive that’s a real human. But let’s say that false positive was a potential customer that would only have paid if they weren’t blocked, and now you just saved less than a penny in server costs to lose hundreds of dollars of lifetime value from that customer.

Sure if you run a free service use Cloudflare. Give in to centralizing the web more, supporting more censorship, and annoying the hell out of a ton of people in the process. But if you’re making money, I don’t see why you wouldn’t have authentication tied to paying users for anything of value, or think of bot traffic as a cost of doing business.

> Now I can incrementally update and improve and refactor

This is 100 times easier for me than building from scratch. I second guess everything when I start with a blank canvas.

That was my pain point and why I made my extension SnipCSS - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma...

Usually I can find something "good/close enough" to what I want on some website. I use my extension to rip off that design, start with that as a base, then iterate. Just made this tool the other day https://templates.snipcss.com/tools/free-no-conflict-css-too... using this as the start design: https://www.toptal.com/developers/json-formatter

15 years? No one will do webdev with a keyboard by then.

You'll be arranging UI blocks in augmented reality IDE completely powered by AI. AI will use WASM and upon request it will gladly convert to your language/framework of choice so you can view its source. Us old timers won't trust that it converted the code correctly for us to read, but the kids won't care. They'll just give it a new context/edge case examples, and have the AI rewrite everything on demand whenever they run into a problem. Looking at code will be outdated.

I made a Chrome extension called SnipCSS that is made for not-good-at-ui devs.

Instead of using a framework, I just rip other sections of website designs I like using my tool. The paid version even scopes the snippet and gets all responsive styles.

Theming abilities are on the roadmap and with AI being able to adjust my snippets eventually - I really don’t see the need for extremely verbose frameworks like Tailwind. But I could be wrong, I’m probably biased after having worked on it for a couple years.

Doesn't sound like a very promising company if your own developers rather use a different framework than dogfood their own. Isn't that kind of admitting defeat?

I use my own product SnipCSS all the time: https://www.snipcss.com

I also pay for BrowserStack, Browserless and ChatGPT