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I kind of want something to work on as a side project. I have a really vague toy idea of "what if ChatGPT did stuff async?". So for example you have a bot that

I kind of want something to work on as a side project. I have a really vague toy idea of "what if ChatGPT did stuff async?". So for example you have a bot that messages you at some time of the day to start a conversation. I don't know what the practical uses are, but what got me there is having a bot to motivate you towards your goals. I don't feel I have enough of a thread on this idea yet to build something, so might let this one stew. Another idea, somewhat validated by a recent HN post, is the idea of tools to organize your life. Specifically if you own a house, there are a bunch of things you need to do every 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, annual etc. TODO lists do the job (like Microsoft Todo) which I use now but feel a bit generic. While they are good at reminding they are not so good at the "view of what is coming up". Also they lack a certain "emotional" element that I am trying to get at (which links with the bot idea), that how do you make these things feel less like chores. Something like gamification but not quite that. Another thing that would scratch an itch for me is 24/7 hrv monitoring (using a Polar H10 or similar). Could be done via an app, or a separate device (so spare your phone battery). Then if the device has some ideas of what you are doing (maybe it asks you an hour later if you had low HRV "what were you doing an hour ago?) you can correlate HRV to daily activity. (HRV is Heart Rate Variability. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate_variability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate_variability) So I have a few vague things stewing but not enough to even know what to code. I also don't know if these are money ideas, or more like a Github project.

qup 3y ago
> I have a really vague toy idea of "what if ChatGPT did stuff async?". So for example you have a bot that messages you at some time of the day to start a conversation. I don't know what the practical uses are, but what got me there is having a bot to motivate you towards your goals. I don't feel I have enough of a thread on this idea yet to build something, so might let this one stew. I saw in another thread somewhere, people talking about a simple cron job, checks maybe your email/calendar and has some algo for ranking "importance." If it's important enough, it writes you a notification. The LLM doing the ranking of importance, basically.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  I like this idea, and it would scratch my own itch - what if I forget to check my calendar in the morning but I have an 8 am meeting I have to attend? This could be done by rules, but maybe the LLM can give an natural language interface. "Alert me one hour before, for meetings booked by someone else that are before 10am" The whole "alert me about X" but don't want alarms blaring off all day.
austin-cheney 3y ago
Typically when people are chasing ideas in quest for some investment of time they are thinking of solutions to apply instead of problems to solve. I recommend looking at problems you actually have right now. Things that consume your time, require you to look things up, or things you find frustrating and solve for that one step at a time. If it provides immediate value to you then odds are it will benefit other people as well.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Yes I know what you mean. The heart rate thing is closest to a problem to solve, although probably a problem that needs a doctor involved. I think it could be useful and would probably pay for something that did it well myself. The reason is for chronic fatigue it is an interesting metric to follow. Say I am at the gym I can be warned to sit down for 20 minutes before carrying on. I find with tech problems I have at work, the way I want to solve it is to ditch all the damn complexity :-). Maybe the solution is a book on how to convince your org to KISS lol.

qup 3y ago

> I have a really vague toy idea of "what if ChatGPT did stuff async?". So for example you have a bot that messages you at some time of the day to start a conversation. I don't know what the practical uses are, but what got me there is having a bot to motivate you towards your goals. I don't feel I have enough of a thread on this idea yet to build something, so might let this one stew. I saw in another thread somewhere, people talking about a simple cron job, checks maybe your email/calendar and has some algo for ranking "importance." If it's important enough, it writes you a notification. The LLM doing the ranking of importance, basically.

quickthrower2 3y ago
I like this idea, and it would scratch my own itch - what if I forget to check my calendar in the morning but I have an 8 am meeting I have to attend? This could be done by rules, but maybe the LLM can give an natural language interface. "Alert me one hour before, for meetings booked by someone else that are before 10am" The whole "alert me about X" but don't want alarms blaring off all day.

austin-cheney 3y ago

Typically when people are chasing ideas in quest for some investment of time they are thinking of solutions to apply instead of problems to solve. I recommend looking at problems you actually have right now. Things that consume your time, require you to look things up, or things you find frustrating and solve for that one step at a time. If it provides immediate value to you then odds are it will benefit other people as well.

quickthrower2 3y ago
Yes I know what you mean. The heart rate thing is closest to a problem to solve, although probably a problem that needs a doctor involved. I think it could be useful and would probably pay for something that did it well myself. The reason is for chronic fatigue it is an interesting metric to follow. Say I am at the gym I can be warned to sit down for 20 minutes before carrying on. I find with tech problems I have at work, the way I want to solve it is to ditch all the damn complexity :-). Maybe the solution is a book on how to convince your org to KISS lol.