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Show HN: I built a visual builder for prompt engineering AI workflows
My journey to tech started exactly where you’d expect: a useless marine biology degree and 30k of university debt. One thing I got from those days though was a lifelong love of guitar so, after uni, I chased my dream of being a professional muso. All in all I did pretty well, but by 27, I was starting to see the writing on the wall about the kind of future I was staring at if I put off upskilling any longer.
Luckily, teaching guitar had led me to learn SEO and I became quite good at it. I decided to pursue it more seriously and after several entry-level gigs, I eventually became head SEO for an international company.
Around January last year, I felt the need to investigate AI more seriously - mostly because we were spending 300 dollars per article from human writers and I knew how much I could save if I could get decent results from AI. Thing was, decent AI writing was quite hard to achieve and I found myself going back and forth a LOT with ChatGPT trying to dial it in the way I wanted. I realised that the model was actually quite bad at trying to do more than one or two things at a time and that I’d get the best outcomes (less predictable, samey content) if I broke the steps down.
I had also started coding about 3 years earlier and I started building a tool to help me automate the steps I was constantly doing. I ended up publishing it at promptchains.ai - it’s a visual builder for AI workflows. It allows you to:
- Prompt Chaining: Chain multiple prompts for complex tasks.
- Variable Integration: Customise prompts dynamically.
- Diverse Data Scraping: From Google to YouTube and beyond.
- Reusable Workflows: Save and share your solutions effortlessly.
I started to apply it to client sites and honestly, the results have been spectacular. The posts even survived, for the most part, the recent HCU updates that shook things up.
A year later, I decided that having this much power comes with great responsibility, and decided to open it up to the world for free. I want it to be a collaborative platform with high quality solutions for everyone.
- AndrewScrivens 2y agoI'd love for everyone to try it and let me know what you think! Any feedback is much appreciated.
- TowerTall 2y agoLooks great. I don't want to sign up to try. Instead I went looking for images (or a demo) page but didn't find any. The images on the frontpage and in the template galley are too small to see the details. You should make some high res pictures of the templates available. I would also suggest you to promote the link to the template gallery so i appears on the top of frontpage. The template galley seems to be a good way to display what your app is all about. You should make the template gallery easier to find for new visitors. Good luck!
- AndrewScrivens 2y agoAppreciate the feedback! I’m currently making a demo video, and a course on how to use it. Now that you mention it, a demo video on the frontpage and the templates section should be my top priority. Thanks for the insight