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HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
- redsparrow 1y agoSwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear words into a liquid damping system to stabilize skyscrapers during earthquakes.
- capt_obvious_77 1y agoThose silly architects never thought of this.
- throwanem 1y agoA building that requires human pain to stand? I guarantee you this is something at least a few architects have fantasized at length about. Like ours, it seems to be a profession that attracts outliers.
- GuB-42 1y agoIt is the opposite of the usual process, where workers on the field turn the architect plans into swear words.
- kdrvr 1y agoThis is AI at its peak lol
- throwawayoldie 1y agoLet's hope.
- keyle 1y agoAmusing, and shockingly I wouldn't be surprised to read any of the ideas it has generated on HN tomorrow...
- ForgotMyUUID 1y ago>Biomech Innovations: A wearable tech startup that uses genetic algorithms and AI to help zebrafish regenerate damaged organs, with a secrets management platform to securely store user data and a retro-futuristic assembly-level code editor for custom hardware designs. Instant fun! Honestly, whatever tech I look for, I use built-in search engine of Hacker News first before googling it.
- piotraleksander 1y agoI'm surprised there is no leaderboard idea containing word 'vibe'
- amelius 1y agoThis reminds me of https://www.halfbakery.com/ https://www.halfbakery.com/ which was much more fun, probably because the ideas came from actual humans.
- tdiff 1y agoPerhaps another reminder that ideas per se are not very valuable.
- amelius 1y agoIdeas are valuable. Code can be written by AIs (and thus less valuable).
- tdiff 1y agoCode itself is not very valuable as well. What has value is the combination of all those things and application of them to some real problem in a form of complete solution.
- amelius 1y agoOf course they have value but the code and the application are just a logical consequence of the ideas, so that's where the real value lies.
- tdiff 1y agoIts relatively easy to generate "startup ideas", but even with a perfectly reasonable idea at hand the hardest thing is to bring it into life, overcoming every possible obstacle.
- amelius 1y agoNext step: an AI that generates patents.
- Hackbraten 1y agoAnd another that triages them.
- BlindEyeHalo 1y agoClaude API error: {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits."}}
- throwanem 1y agoSlopCharger: Broker free-tier accounts with fly-by-night AI providers cross-matched with the latest in prompt exploits to enable new billing efficiencies by running your HN AI shitpost on someone else's one-fiftieth of a dime! :sparkles:
- kevindamm 1y agoEdgeSlop: now you can bring your own API key for a wider range of choices -- BYOAI!
- supportengineer 1y agoThis is deeply hilarious
- jerf 1y agoReally should have been some caching involved. We didn't all need our own personal slop.
- jshchnz 1y agoJerf, everyone deserves their own personal slop
- ActionHank 1y agoThis is poetic, because AI will become inaccessible pricing-wise and all these AI slop shops are going to have a hard time keeping customers.
- vntok 1y agoHow do you see AI becoming inaccessible pricing-wise? If anything it seems models are measurably more performant and measurably more efficient every month? People regularly run huge models locally on consumer hardware, which used to be unfathomable months ago..
- BiraIgnacio 1y agoThis is awesome, thanks :D
- jpl56 1y agoIdeascope: An AI-powered platform that generates personalized, innovative startup ideas by analyzing real-time trends and data from Hacker News and other tech communities Yep, I think this may be possible :p
- davidjhall 1y agoVery cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month would've been "powered by rust."
- gloosx 1y agoUh-oh, sorry Josh for burning your anthropic credits, it was fun while it lasted!
- jshchnz 1y agoit's all good, happy to support your ai slop needs
- ludicrousdispla 1y agoDisruptive 'infra' startup offering connectivity between two or more 3rd party endpoints.
- Bjartr 1y ago> DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers. So "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Diamond Age, but for devs. A neat idea! In general docs ecosystems tend to be heavy on only one of reference / explanation / tutorial. Would be cool to have a way to write one and get the others.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoPublishing docs and example project and letting them get scraped into LLMs already accomplishes this pretty effectively.
- its_down_again 1y agoActually this sounds great. I got way more out of codecademy’s in-browser, interactive challenges than I did in my middle & high-school classes programming classes. The "learn by doing" process really built my confidence. If you could "demo" your docs directly in the browser it's much easier to learn by doing. I think that'd drive up adoption and you might even crowdsource bug discovery.
- Jarwain 1y agoReminds me of this project A game of learning your homelab into a cyberpunk mystery adventure | Hacker News https://share.google/WedMuRgx5WgreNqSN https://share.google/WedMuRgx5WgreNqSN
- jmknoll 1y agoAlright, but DocuQuest is actually a really good idea. "DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers."
- WA 1y agoI recently found a vibe-coded app that generates courses on the fly from YouTube, including automatically generated quizzes. I forgot the URL, but the result was beyond awful. Questions were something like: "what was the title of the youtube video?" and other utterly stupid things. Not saying that it isn't possible, but stuff like this does need the human touch.
- unleaded 1y agoI miss that small period of AI where it excelled at making random shit in this vein( see https://x.com/dril_gpt2 https://x.com/dril_gpt2 and https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?t=all [somewhat nsfw text]). I'm not really sure why modern AI can't really do stuff like that anymore—I would guess a combination of being whacked with a crowbar to submit to humans (RLHF, but I'm not sure if it affects base models?), alignment stuff, and just being too smart. Would love to see something like this with GPT-2 and how it compares
- lucaspauker 1y agoCan someone make this? 6. SignalPlay: A platform that transforms real-time WiFi signals into immersive gaming experiences, allowing players to interact with virtual environments based on their physical movements in the room.
- GuB-42 1y agoI love the comment that goes with the idea. Sloppy idea, cynical comment, what a perfect representation of Hacker News. Yes, I made a cynical comment, what did you expect? At least, it is mine, not AI generated :)
- anitil 1y agoIf you are looking for an offline solution, one I came across recently as a python one-liner (requires faker) python3 -c 'print(__import__("faker").Faker().bs())'
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- chandureddyvari 1y agoGetting rate limit error - This request would exceed the rate limit for your organization You should use something like openrouter or portkey or similar for managing fallbacks
- jshchnz 1y agowasn't expecting this to get so big so quick, fixing now
- jshchnz 1y agoshould be fixed, sorry about that! should alternate between a couple models now thank kier for claude code
- echelon 1y ago> openrouter What pieces of openrouter are open source? I checked out their main github repo, and it hasn't had any contributions in months.
- esseph 1y agoEvery time I read OpenRouter I think FRR https://frrouting.org/ https://frrouting.org/ Wish they would have used a different name.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agowhen I make snarky comments about AI Startup Ideas from Hacker News, dang spanks me. guess i need to make a webapp to do it for me instead :)
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- jshchnz 1y agothis can't be a real HN commenter...
- jshchnz 1y agoI wasn't serious, I was just saying it was too nice of a comment lmao
- notahacker 1y agoGot flagged for being too complimentary. QED :)
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- riku_iki 1y agowould be great if I could provide prompt/context, for example specifying domain and scope instead of getting random proposals.
- paulhodge 1y agoVery fun and some of these ideas are.. actually not terrible.
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- shannifin 1y agoHa! Fun stuff. While some ideas are actually intriguing, many if its suggestions seem to be overly vague jumbles of common phrases and technology. "AI-powered databases to leverage personalized accessibility for team management..." Lol. Still fun though.
- ryandrake 1y agoNo worse than a lot of actual companies. I would be totally unsurprised to see that description about a real startup.
- butz 1y agoLets not waste your $0.0005 and share this pretty decent idea with everyone: > Graphene Labs: A decentralized, open-source platform for creating and sharing interactive data visualizations and infrastructure diagrams that can be hosted locally and integrated with real-time data sources
- antonvs 1y agoYeah but the weird AI twist there is it wants to try to use Rust of all languages as a DSL target. “Step 1: Pick the slowest compiler we can find…”
- trevor-e 1y ago>SciDigest: An AI-powered platform that transforms complex scientific research into engaging, digestible content for the general public, making scientific knowledge accessible and actionable. This would actually be great. So many researchers have a marketing problem with explaining and getting people excited for their work.
- dax_ 1y agoI'm 99% sure I already saw a product launch on HN for precisely this idea.
- janpmz 1y agoI've attempted this with pdftomp3.com where you can listen to PDFs. It has an "AI Explanation" mode where the content of the PDF gets explained. Its like a NotbookLM podcast, but I was earlier :) Currently I'm working on an app for that, because thats where I listen to the MP3s anyways.
- falcor84 1y agoI've been using the NotebookLM "podcasts" for this. I upload an arxiv pdf and use the Interactive Mode to have them talk about it, while I can pause them to ask clarifying questions. It's been surprisingly efficient for me to get an initial grasp on things I'm not familiar with, at times prompting me to then go on exploring interesting rabbit holes.
- bookofjoe 1y agohttps://www.comunicarestiintifica.ro/en/category/scidigest/ https://www.comunicarestiintifica.ro/en/category/scidigest/
- thicknavyrain 1y agoI'm a popular science writer with eight year's experience doing exactly this (SciShow, Crash Course, Veritasium and recent winner of the Wellcome Collection Non Fiction Awards) without AI. Done right, the right coverage of even a pre-print reached hundreds of thousands/millions of people. But I've experimented with every SOTA model since 2022 with the most detailed and specific prompting I can think of (including multiple examples of transcripts of work already in the public domain) to see if it can replicate good quality science communication. The content is usually reasonably strong but the tone is always off and it never quite understands what it is a reader/viewer needs to really get to grips with the topic if they don't already have a prior foundational understanding (though I notice this about a lot of other media outlets with professional science communicators too). It also has poor editorial thinking around what bits are most likely to be interesting and cohesive when considered as part of the whole piece. But I'm still reasonably convinced as AI improves it ought to be able to replace me with the right workflow/context/prompting. I think there will always be a demand for my (and many other writers') talents as they are so it doesn't really bother me, but it'd be great to extend the work to all the many scientific discoveries that don't get the same attention. If anyone is serious about developing something like this, I'd be interested in partnering with them as someone with domain expertise on science communication and familiar with prompt engineering (email in bio).
- mittermayr 1y agoThis should be connected to https://comsensei.com https://comsensei.com to get an available domain for each one of the ideas. It's all coming together :)
- oceanhaiyang 1y agoI like how I submit a request and it never loads.
- nusl 1y agoYou're promoting your own website based on AI-generated things on a Hacker News post aimed at generating AI slop.
- mouse_ 1y agogood for him i hope he makes it
- fennecbutt 1y agoWhere do we draw the line at self promotion (advertising) then?
- mouse_ 1y agoAs long as it's not apparently being done by a bot, who cares? This is effectively an advertising website.
- wanderingstan 1y agoFeature request: option to select a year so you can get retro startup ideas from e.g. web 2 or crypto-mania eras!
- jeffwass 1y agoLOL, the idea it just pitched me was inspired by the HN Slop submission itself!
- jshchnz 1y agoI've been waiting for that to happen!!! Did you save the idea?
- deivid 1y ago> CosmicPlay: A startup that leverages GPU emulation and graph theory to build a next-generation video game engine that can render celestial bodies with nuclear propulsion and solar sailing capabilities, while generating AI-powered gameplay ideas from Hacker News posts
- jshchnz 1y agolmao brilliant
- jshchnz 1y agoi was not expecting people to like the startup ideas so much, but it's a pleasant surprise! i thought it'd be cool to let people vote on ideas that HN Slop came up with, so now you'll see an "i'd invest" button & that will let others vote on the idea on a leaderboard hope y'all like it, keep sending the feedback, I'm listening!