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An agent that records Loom-style videos for support, sales, etc

https://rundown.video

This is exactly why I read HN

Thank you!!

Yeah, apparently. This was done with gpt-4o. Will try claude-sonnet at some point next week, it's supposed to be better. At least in terms of being more "creative" not sure about getting this kind of reference.

I just need a story line. Write as much or as little as you'd like.

Describing the characters helps making it more personal... and the result will always be more impressive in that sense.

haha, it's the ultimate uno reverse card. Did it work? There are some known issues with German titles on the Cover page, sorry if you've encountered that. I'm trying to improve it.

I have a margin on the credits for the models. So it's a credit model and I sell them for more than I buy them.

Just launched Story Treasure a way to create illustrated children's books, motivated by the fact that I'm a portuguese dad raising two bilingual girls in Germany... very hard to find portuguese books around here!

https://www.storytreasure.ai/

Was rather referring to “knowledge base” apps mentioned in this thread like like Notion, Obsidian, Logsec, Roam, etc.

Keep is quite simple as Is Apple Notes. But these, at least for me, become chaotic quite fast unless I’m very disciplined (and sooner or later there’s a day in which I’m not)

Writing something down in order to lose that “weight” is indeed the main goal of note-taking.

But most apps make this surprisingly hard… you first need to figure out if you should create a new note or append to an existing one. If new note, then in which folder? If existing note, then which one?

It’s too much mental burden when all you want ia jot something down and be sure you’ll find it later.

I made an app that’s great at this, just this. It’s basically an infinite page where you write everything down, in one continuous stream. Then it has some basic tagging and search so you can find stuff again.

Feel free to try if interested: PaperRoll.app

Thanks a lot for trying this out and for the suggestions!

Glad to hear the basic mechanics of "additive" notes is working for you. I have a lot of depth to add as you pointed out though, will go back to work :)

Have a nice Saturday!

Thanks for sharing this here!

Yeah, I see this completely. I'd need myself if I wasn't the maker and hence 100% sure that there is not intention to sell data.

My plan is to have mobile apps soon and make multi-device use a core part of the experience. Which is why I went with mandatory login although it makes little sense so far (since there is no really multi-device support). I just didn't want to build things twice since I'm doing this alone...

That said, I'll have to go with your other suggestion which is offering good ways to export & backup into your own storage (local or otherwise) and be upfront about this option.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Thanks for the positive energy!! Further platforms will come for sure soon.

Cheers!

Hey! Thanks a lot for the effort to put this answer together. Totally see your point.

I was going with the assumption that you "better show than tell". So, by having a landing page with so little info is intentional in the hope that it will lead to more downloads.

So far about 20% of all visitors download the app, which I think is a high number. But I can see how that won't scale.

Again, thanks a lot for the feedback

Thanks for the feedback.

What does "owning" the content mean to you? You own it to the same extension you own it in Notion, Linear or any web based tool.

The login could be optional but the only reason is there is to provide a feature: automatic backups and sync across devices.

You're right. You get this video once you press "Download" which shows the app and explains the benefits / mental model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9NPRlF6yc

I see it's https://quilljs.com/ , if anyone is interested

What are you using for the richttext editor? Works very well!

Everything that's worth doing in life will take a certain degree of work and sacrifice.

Parenting is no exception. And as others have stated, many people see it as the hardest thing they've done. I'd just like to complete the equation and say that it's also the most rewarding, at least in my case.

So the question is rather how to endure the hardship in the best way possible. Kind of the same way an olympic swimmer must come up with strategies to be able to train (ie. suffer) day in day out until they finally win a medal.

What I think is very helpful is:

a) To find activities that both you and your kids enjoy, and do those things (as opposed to just "watching your kids" as they play).

b) Find ways to still do those things you like to do on your own, and also for the things you like to do with your partner. This requires more coordination now between the parents and also with whoever is around and can support (family, other friends with kids, etc) but it's definitely possible.

All in all, in my experience, life is so much brighter and exciting with kids. It's exhausting, yes, but so is surfing and hiking, and building a startup, and anything else that's worth doing.

I think the key is to take control of our lifestyle and make sure that it is, with our without kids, aligned with what what you internally want to do (hence points a) and b) above).

Why don't you make a project template instead and start from there?

That's what I do, complete will all the dependencies I always need (like Celery, Allauth, etc)

You could use this: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/extract-dominant-colors-of-an-...

So cool! Would be nice to make the color of the edge match the dominant color of the cover, somehow

Congrats on the launch, looks really slick!

I'm trying to decode the trend for decentralized services. If you have a sec:

Q1: In your case, why did you opt for decentralized storage?

Q2: Which benefits do I get as a consumer that I wouldn't if this was encoded, but centralized with a lot of redundance?

Don't take me the wrong way, really trying to understand where this is all going.

Cheers

Wasn't it clear already centuries ago that deciding by consensus results in risk averse, mild, uninteresting solutions?

"2. People mostly just want to work when and where they want with clear objectives and a chance to earn a good chunk of what their labor produces. I would argue for many that having a decent equity stake in a startup that is worldwide remote solves for this."

So true. And the challenge to this, at least in Europe, has nothing to do with technology - it's a legal challenge. The process of issuing and trading shares of a company is super simple in itself, it's the regulation that makes it hard.

And since securities regulations apply to things like profit-sharing tokens... then, good job, you just solved nothing and made the tech 10x harder.

This article ignores the fact that many people outside the "founder-bubble" would happily trade less autonomy/self-determination for the peace of having someone (or an organization) telling you what to do and giving you a predictable path into the future.

Nothing in DAOs is new. Look at 30 year-old open-source projects, or books like "Reinventing organizations" from Laloux. And as such, it's fair to believe that DAOs will work to the extent that all other previous attempts at distributed organizations have.

In short: it works for some people, in some cases.

Nice read, thanks for sharing