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nsideon PolyPrompt: Send the Same Prompt to Multiple AI Models Simultaneously

I've just released PolyPrompt, a desktop application that lets you send the same prompt to multiple AI models simultaneously. It's designed to help maximize the ROI from all your AI API subscriptions by letting you use them in parallel rather than choosing between them.

*The Problem:* Many of us have subscriptions to multiple AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), but we typically use them one at a time. This means we're not getting the full value from our subscriptions, and we're missing out on the unique strengths of each model.

*How PolyPrompt Works:*

- Send one prompt to multiple models simultaneously - See real-time streaming responses side-by-side - Compare outputs across different models - Save and export all responses - Securely store your API keys locally

*Supported Models:*

- OpenAI: All models including GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 - Anthropic: All Claude models including Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku - Google: All Gemini models including Pro and Ultra

PolyPrompt is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's a paid app with a simple licensing model (monthly or yearly subscription).

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially from those who regularly use multiple AI models.

nsideon Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files

The most robust tool I found for this is https://pdf2spreadsheet.com/

nsideon Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

If you're interested on working on similar technology full time, please let me know at denis@curbside.com Stack is mostly in Clojure & Go

nsideon Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data

Great PR!

How much does it cost to store 1 exabyte on S3?

1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000 GB

Cost of storage 1GB on S3 in us-west-2 = $0.024

That's 24 millions dollars. What am I missing?

nsideon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Try to solve the updated challenge!

nsideon Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML

There are too many colors!

nsideon “metadata”

I don't think the carrier would recognize the phone if you changed its IMEI

nsideon DYI Lidar using a Kinect

Source code is available at https://github.com/mszarski/KinectMapper

nsideon Ask HN: Underperforming, feeling stuck

It sounds like you're "under-stimulated"; try running your onw co for few months and come back on this thread. Maybe you're a lion in a cage?

nsideon Ask HN: Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS

You need to learn it, but you don't need to do it this work. First hire a designer. Then hire a integration shop. Shops like psd2html are doing it for 100$-1k-2k$ So get a good designer and have a shop do the slicing work. Then adjust it to your needs..

nsideon Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

I don't think open-sourcing an entire product is a good idea (at least on launch). However, open-sourcing components (such as your internal tools, file specs, libraries, etc) can add as much value to the open source ecosystem while preserving your competitive advantages.

nsideon Ask HN: Beaten to the punch by a competitor, advice?

Couldn't say better. And as soon as they will feel your competition they might buy you. That's probably the quickest way to exit?

nsideon Ask YC: How important do you think it is to have a blog?

When people will search for you online, you'd rather have them land on your blog, no? This is a great opportunity to market yourself. You don't have to blog to build an audience..

nsideon Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?

When you really need to get something done overnight, which is common in startups, you'll have to pay extra fees. And no contractor gets to the small details, or gets the whole picture.. Would you open a garage without being an engineer/mechanic? I doubt.

nsideon Ask YC: What new technologies are you exploring?

Flex/AS3 AS3 is interesting because it's client-side and quite fast compared to Javascript.