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Cilvic

172 karma · joined August 21, 2011

Interests: Productivity, Education, Entrepreneurship

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Cilvic··on Ask HN: Cursor-like AI tool for Excel power users
- write formulas for me (single cell but let me say in english what I want then give me the formula) - do more complex things like "add another week" (1) insert new column (2) copy all formulas (3) adjust the fixed date - Explain a sheet / formula / section - Help me understand where this value comes from - do large scale formatting adjustments/alignments - find discrepancies / inconsistencies
Cilvic··on If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
@OP super inspiring. I'm working on a universal capture SDK, a bit like rewind.ai that would make it easy to grab information from screen and then store as Markdown etc. Have you ever wished for something like that?
Cilvic··on Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
Super cool to see this just now. We are building in the space of computer screen analysis and started to experience something similar, hence want to build something similar for Pixels instead of voice.

Would love to chat to you, jan@kontext21.com

Cilvic··on Show HN: CopyCat (YC W25) – Free Alternative to OpenAI's $200 Operator
which model do you use locally?
Cilvic··on AI File Sorter: Categorize and Organize Files Using AI
Cool idea. How does it work. Do you expect me to run it on "unorganized" folder and afterwards it's better organized?

Just today I was wondering when I can just "ask for the file" and get it faster than navigating folders.

I'm wondering what you think are the advantages of putting them in folders?

Cilvic··on Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me
For me it's a bit like typo in phishing/scam emails. If you think "oh my god this scam is so bad how can anyone fall for it" then you are probably not the target group.
Cilvic··on Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web
Super cool music. Great vibes.

on Firefox with ublock origin the playbutton wasn't visible so I made an account first. Pretty slow fps not sure why + hard to figure out where to go.

Cilvic··on Don't Be Misled by Build an App in 5 Minutes with Cursor
The article was insightful what cursor can do specifically (as someone who heard quite a bit of unspecifc cursor praise + tried it myself recently vs. vs code + aider)
Cilvic··on [dead]
You submitted the same thing 4 times in 4 days?

The topic investors/founders might be find interest here, but we probably want some more content /discussion worthy stuff.

Cilvic··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
Which ones did you get?
Cilvic··on Brain-to-Speech Tech Good Enough for Everyday Use Debuts in a Man with ALS
Impressive. I didn't find any mention of the speed. How many words per minute does this allow for?
Cilvic··on Half-Ass It
I read that as prodcast tour and was intrigued
Cilvic··on $10M prize launched for team that can talk to the animals
Title should be changed, the cash prize is 0.5M OR a 10M equity investment
Cilvic··on Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative
This is cool. My biggest question was "does it work?" then I had another look at the repo and saw the "Repocloud" one click deployment. And it's quite well done. Apart from signin up for the repocloud account (3$ free credit) and waiting for the deployment (5mins) ... I'm now waiting for my first answer which doesn't seem to come through and there are not a many ways to trouble shoot as far as I can see... I've asked on discord
Cilvic··on Ask HN: What are options to build cross-platform efficient desktop apps
You might look into https://avaloniaui.net/
Cilvic··on Why I failed in $1,7k monthly revenue in my first SaaS?
Why not price it purely per email?

Let them start small, then "upsell" on more emails.

Also I guess for many users this is not an "ongoing activity" more like a one-time, let's run this campaign.

Also 100,000 /month is really a lot no, how many month could I really find that many dental clinics?

Cilvic··on Ask HN: As a non-technical founder, would you use an agency to build your MVP?
There are a lot of "it depends" (the product, the agency, the deal etc.) but since you asked a simple question. I'll just say "yes". If hiring an agency is a way forward and the opportunity is to stop/not start doing business then yes do hire. I think it helps to make progress and potentially attract technical co-founders see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902372
Cilvic··on Ask HN: Is there a visual data mapper for JSON transformation?
Thanks, do you have a screenshot of the mapping / data transformations handy? I can only find this https://docs.n8n.io/data/data-mapping/data-mapping-ui/
Cilvic··on Ask HN: Is there a visual data mapper for JSON transformation?
Candidates:

- https://ballerina.io/learn/vs-code-extension/implement-the-c... Data Mapper is pretty spot on, but is ballerina, a language I'm not familiar with yet. Does this exist for Javascript?

- https://www.postman.com/product/flows/ - can this do object mapping or only "steps" of the flow?

- Another one I found just now, but it's not "visual" https://jolt-demo.appspot.com/#incept

Cilvic··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
Actually I got the newsletter, will definitely again!
Cilvic··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
> simply because that allowed us to create an experience that is one-click away from an issue,

That's indeed pretty cool and as you said it's not an either-or. Thanks for providing more background.

Cilvic··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
I'm not sure why they insist on code spaces instead of running this inside vs code?

Setups/working looks pretty similar to aider [1] that I've been using and liking, Aider is smaller steps than plandex, but plandex went into some kind of loops a couple of times so I stoped using it for now.

[1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

Cilvic··on ESPHome
Where would I start if I want to run a ESPHome voice assistant without a Homeassitant server?

I understand I need some kind of server, but I'd prefer if that would be something I just run in the terminal or a cloud function or similar. I don't have hardward to run HA on at the moment.

Cilvic··on I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
Great, ever since rewind.ai came out I was longing for something similar (MacOS only for now)
Cilvic··on Ask HN: Best distro for me? tired of windows10 toxic abusive interface
no
Cilvic··on Ask HN: Best distro for me? tired of windows10 toxic abusive interface
As a long time windows guy, I'm quite happy with fedora (wayland gnome) since last year. Valorant won't run on any linux AFAIK because of vanguard anticheat.
Cilvic··on A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
I'd love to find something like this for "product-led growth" ideally not B2C but still B2B just not "sales led". Any ideas?
Cilvic··on Ask HN: Cloud Office Version of MS Access DB
maybe getgrist.com
Cilvic··on Founders Salarys
That would be very small indeed, I interpreted it "favorably" as as 6 interviews but each did yield more than 1 datapoint per category.
Cilvic··on AITabs: Generate lyrics, chords, beats, melody, and tabs for music
After reading the readme I'm not sure how this works. Will the "prompt" be the "raw audio" of the song? And the model returns lyrics, chords, beat, melody and the tabs?

I'm looking for something that I can sing to (a self composed song without music) and it would recommend guitar cords/tabs + melody to accompany myself. Any ideas?

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