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Suggestion: publish a live demo of the "needle playground". It's small enough that it should be pretty cheap to run this on a little VPS somewhere!
by simonw 6mo ago
Suggestion: publish a live demo of the "needle playground". It's small enough that it should be pretty cheap to run this on a little VPS somewhere!
- HenryNdubuaku 6mo agothanks, yeah, the problem is just handling scale, we don't have the infra ready to go, but anyone can do that. Its easy for people to run on their laptops straight up. Will try the VPS route.
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoAlternatively, record a video that showcases it.
- HenryNdubuaku 6mo agoOk, will do that now!
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoI know we all think of bad things when we hear "short form video" but short demos can do a LOT for any project, shows the user how its used, what it looks like, what it solves, etc all in anywhere from 15 seconds to a couple of minutes, doesn't need to be ultra fancy, screen recording is fine. :)
- HenryNdubuaku 6mo agoYes, a demo might be a good idea.
- bityard 6mo agoSince there is no GUI here, I feel like a simple plaintext chat transcript would be both 100x smaller and 100x easier to read. (Not to mention accessible.)
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoSure, and we've seen those terminal screen recorders that give you back a replayable demo, that could work too.
- TobTobXX 6mo agohttps://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/ in case anyome is searching it.
- Barbing 6mo agoOne of the most important things missing from too many projects. Even fifteen seconds can often help significantly.
- benob 6mo agoDeployed it to a huggingface space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/benoitfavre/needle-playground https://huggingface.co/spaces/benoitfavre/needle-playground You can check the very simple docker file there.
- simonw 6mo agoHere's the Dockerfile, it's delightfully simple https://huggingface.co/spaces/benoitfavre/needle-playground/blob/main/Dockerfile https://huggingface.co/spaces/benoitfavre/needle-playground/...
- HenryNdubuaku 6mo agoThanks!
- imhoguy 6mo agoTry WASM, I bet every phone browser would run it. That would be killer demo!
- quantumleaper 6mo agoShould be quick and easy with WebGPU, too.
- ilaksh 6mo agoGood idea. Could you make that.
- bijowo1676 6mo agoGood idea. Could you ask a Claude Code to make that. Today is 2026 after all
- utopiah 6mo agoIt's 2026 so it's already been done 10x by 5x people who says AI is amazing but none of them is sharing the outcome because they either don't care or it doesn't even work.
- simonw 6mo agoThat's an even better idea, I bet this could run in Transformers.js.
- shreyask 6mo agohttps://huggingface.co/spaces/shreyask/needle-playground https://huggingface.co/spaces/shreyask/needle-playground
- bilalba 6mo agoI'll put this on chonklm.com!
- HenryNdubuaku 6mo agoYes, let us know how it goes!