tikkun

What have you tried, what do you use primarily? For desktop.

Is there a good wastewater tracker? I see that the CDC is tracking but they seem to be giving only yes/no, rather than quantitative.

I have a set of youtube videos I've watched.

I'd love an automated way to turn them into Anki cards.

One note is that most of the videos are interviews, so the tool would need to be able to use speaker diarization.

My manual alternative is to make a google doc with Q&A and just quiz myself manually.

But it'd be great if there was a tool where I could put in the links, and then just get multiple choice quizzes that would keep testing me on the material.

Do you find LLMs to be judgmental?

Have you fixed with custom instructions?

Inspired by something I was told re claude vs chat - "[claude is] too judgmental, i literally don’t go to claude because it feels judgmental of me, whereas chat feels like it’s on my team and wants to help me" "claude feels like a weird librarian or teacher that’s too wordy and doesn’t wanna help me for a bunch of things"

I personally use Claude a bit more these days, but I've also set up custom instructions to make it less judgy and do recall it feeling judgy before that, sometimes to the point of feeling insulted by it a couple times actually (strange feeling to have a computer throw such shade at you)... But yeah, custom instructions seems to have solved that for me.

Two questions:

1) What's your biggest uncertainty around AI capabilities in the future, 3-5 year timeframe?

2) How are you planning around the uncertainty? (And are you a founder or an engineer or something else)

I'm seeking advice from founders and other HN users. Which of these do you think it'd be easiest to get 30 engaged beta users for? Which would you bet on?

Let's say that an engaged beta user is one who'll pay me $1 a month plus would chat with me for 10 mins a day as I build it. I'm purely building for the love of the game at this point :) (No fundraising needed). Success to me is one where I can spend lots of time building a product for appreciative users who are happy to give me ~unlimited feedback as I build.

For Founders

1. Product idea validation agency (Alt: marketing agencies, FB ads, cold emails)

2. Ambitious bootstrapper cofounder matching (Alt: YC founder matching)

3. $0->$1M ARR bootstrapper Discord and/or in person retreat (Alt: YC, MicroConf, Smallbets)

4. $1M+ bootstrapped business case studies (Alt: MyFirstMillion, Starter Story, IndieHackers)

For Work

5. AI-sector stock analysis newsletter (Alt: SemiAnalysis, Stratechery, TheInformation)

6. AI interviewer + content writing tool (Alt: Otter + ChatGPT + ghostwriters)

7. AI tools pro-tips guide (Alt: prompt engineering guides, AI tool videos)

8. AGI development tracking newsletter (Alt: Dwarkesh Pod, Jimmy Apples, anime PFPs)

9. Email simplifier app powered by LLMs (Alt: Superhuman, EA)

10. TikTok growth expert Q&A/audit (Alt: being stuck at 100 followers, hiring TT agency)

For Personal Development

12. Intuition training workshop (Alt: Joe Dispenza, decision tools, meditation retreats)

13. Procrastination/ADHD AI daily check-in calls (Alt: life coach, todo apps, over-planning)

14. AI-guided emotional regulation chats (Alt: coaching, counselor, venting to a friend)

15. AI-guided couple/cofounder mediation (Alt: relationship counselor, co-founder coach)

16. Emotional regulation training workshop (Alt: meditation, Internal Family Systems)

17. Toddler parenting skills workshop (Alt: parenting books)

If you have questions or feedback or suggestions let me know either via email (in profile) or in the comments.

Which would you bet on being able to get 30 engaged users for?