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My (briefly viral) personal take: https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io

- a huge chunk of my traffic comes from people who believe this is a real project, because AI tool catalogues keep hallucinating pitches for my AI PRODUCT

- this almost won an award but I lost to a site with 3d rotating sandwiches

- the silver lining: I met a guy who pivoted from startups to making beef jerky. We are a small, exclusive community known to some as the meatverse.

I also made https://butter.sonnet.io and people offered to pay me for it.

Perhaps I should monetise my Medieval Content Farm with those native ads in blackletter: https://tidings.potato.horse

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Ironically, Butter is both really really cool and exactly what generative AI is sustainably good for: reading large amounts of text (in this case video transcripts) for you, the user, and extracting structured or unstructured insights that lead to a more enriched experience. I, too, would pay for it!

https://github.com/paprikka/butter/blob/main/src/watcher/det...

But, to OP's point (and possibly meat-gpt's point?) - any app that asks you, the user, to provide it with a whole bunch of unstructured text in real time just to get going... is annoying at best, and disconnected from our primal brains' urges to point at cool things and see cool things change, and share those cool things with real meat-space people. AI is great when it can facilitate less typing, less reading, less irrelevant ad-watching, and more time spent seeing relevant things to say "ooooooh" about.

(Also, thank you for making me want banana bread!)

I, too, was sick of being asked to write prompts, so I made https://nicer.email/

Great projects, amazing work.

I'm mostly here though to say thanks for the reminder about `.horse`, which I haven't seen since my friends and I would go on domain-buying blitzes and host static pages with repeating backgrounds of random images on them, in college.

hehe do not underestimate the power of edibles and rash decisions!

In all seriousness though, I like splitting my projects between two domains: .sonnet.io for the more serious stuff .potato.horse for anything that I might not want to put on my CV.

(it's a good tradeoff between keeping one domain for everything and buying vanity domains en masse - which I used to be guilty of)

Loving your UIs for these projects, they have a nice minimal aesthetic. What's your tech stack if you don't mind me asking, seems Svelte for frontend?

> Perhaps I should monetise my Medieval Content Farm with those native ads in blackletter: https://tidings.potato.horse

I wanted to like that, but their font is fake. They don't even use the proper ſ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Thank you for that comment. I'm a bit of a typography nerd (and uſed to tranſlate manuſcripts, albeit in middle-Perſian, not Latin) and I DID conſider using it. β≠ß, right?

Agreed.

It's a shame that the state of ligatures for Fraktur and similar is so abysmal, even for TeX. Or at least it was the last time I checked.

> - this almost won an award but I lost to a site with 3d rotating sandwiches

meat-gpt is awesome, but now I want to see what won out over it, have a link by chance?

https://rotatingsandwiches.com glorious and so forward-looking.

> https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io/

Now I'm nostalgic for the early 2000s :)

check out mmm.page

I also post about this sort of stuff occasionally in my TIL notes: untested.sonnet.io (see the note titled "40" and 41).

I think this is an incredibly interesting piece of art. I want to see more websites like this. Thank you for making it, I really enjoyed it

Does butter work on FF? Love these sites!

IIRC it was FF compatible, but I haven't tried using it with FF.

Also, it's buggy and doesn't always work. I could be waaaay better with some fine-tuning. Still feels magical when it works.

Sandwich site?

not even one sandwich, but many: https://rotatingsandwiches.com

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