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DROdio here, CEO of Storytell.ai

Thanks for trying Storytell for coding work, Dan!

When you say it "I don't think it took too much longer to get working code than it would've taken if I just coded up the entire thing by hand with no assistance. I'm going to guess that it took about twice as long, but for all I know it was a comparable amount of time." → I'm actually amazed that it performed as well as it did for native code generation.

We put code generation in the "Use with Caution" bucket as I describe in https://web.storytell.ai/blog/the-intersection-of-ai-curious...


960 comments is a lot! I created a SmartChat™ where you can get a summary (or anything else) of the comments: https://go.storytell.ai/hn-geminiai and here's a summary output example: https://s.drod.io/Jrum2mQK -- hope that's helpful.


1723 comments are a lot to get through. I just made a SmartChat of them for anyone who wants to ask for a summary. Anyone can chat with it here: https://go.storytell.ai/sam-altman-hn-comments-smartchat

I just tried "Write a summary of the content, followed by a list in bullet format of the most interesting points. Bold the bullet points, followed by a 100-character summary of each." Here's the output: https://s.drod.io/DOuPLxwP

Also interesting is "List the top 10 theories of why Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board in table format, with the theory title in the first column and a 100 word summary in the second column." Here's that output: https://s.drod.io/v1unG2vG

Helps to turn markdown mode on to see the list & table.

Hope that helps!


Brand new to storytell but it seems your "knowledge" is open to all. Didn't know if you wanted all of this public.

http://postimg.cc/Lqv1LR3n


Thanks for sharing! Privacy in Storytell is permissioned at the content level when you upload content. There are three privacy levels in Storytell:

- "anyone with the link"

- "only my organization" (i.e., people who have registered w/ the same biz email domain)

- "just me"

You can see those SmartChat™ dynamic container tags because I have at least one piece of "anyone with the link" content in each of them.

Our goal is to de-silo content as much as possible -- i.e., as much as the person who's uploading the content wants it to be open vs. closed.

More at https://www.web.storytell.ai/support/smartchat-tm/how-to-man...


Thank you, this was very helpful. I was beginning to feel overwhelmed by the volume of information and opinions.


Cool, we're just getting started so let us know what we could build that would be helpful/valuable for you.

For example:

- We have a Chrome extension at https://go.Storytell.ai/chrome that I used to ingest all the HN comments; you can run that on any HN page to summarize all the comments in real time. (Here's an Adobe PMM talking about how he uses it: https://www.tiktok.com/@storytell.ai/video/72996137210752566... )

- We've also built OpenAI's Assistant API into Storytell to process both structured data like CSVs along-side unstructured data like PDFs: https://www.web.storytell.ai/support/engineering-demos-updat...


Don’t be. Almost all of it are speculations at this point and no one from inside is going to reveal the secret in a random HN comment.

And also, think about this, unless you’re a shareholder with openai, knowing the “opinion” of others isn’t going to impact your life in any form. I’m not saying you shouldn’t read it or participate in the discourse, but there’s no need to be overwhelmed by opinions let alone build a chat bot to get through it.


Yeah agree with all of the above but with one modification: We can spend a lot of time reading through 1800+ comments, and that's time when we're usually trying to just get a question answered like "what does everyone think happened?" etc.

Storytell's vision is to distill signal from noise → giving you a different way to navigate 1800+ comments where you're the one in control of how you spend your time doing it is our objective here.


Agree. There’s definitely use to get a general pulse of whats happening. This isnt directed towards storytell or such apps, sorry if that came off that way.

I was addressing the parent’s comment about being overwhelmed about not being able to go through the opinions. I’ve felt similar way before I realised they were just fomo. If anything, apps like storytell are actually better way to consume these things :)


Pretty useful, thanks!


Would love to know what you'd like to see us build to make it even better for you!

You can also get to the "ground truth" data by clicking on the [x] reference foot notes which will open up a 3rd panel with the Story Tiles that we pull from our vector DB to construct the LLM response.

Here's an example of how it works -- I asked for a summary of what happened in the voice of Dr. Seuss: https://s.drod.io/9ZuL6Xx8


Here's the Storytell report summarizing the actual paper: https://app.storytell.ai/mdx/report/8E3KPJBxbGyjfzYVxjqFCT?e...


Good blockchain caching use cases though: https://stellate.co/blog/scaling-hasura-at-rmrk & https://stellate.co/blog/super-fast-hasura-graphql-for-stxnf...

"Given that the Bitcoin blockchain only produces new blocks once about every 10 minutes, Gamma’s data also changes at most every 10 minutes — making it an ideal use case for caching.

Thomas added Gamma’s GraphQL edge cache in front of Gamma’s Hasura GraphQL API, and immediately got an overall cache hit rate of 87%, which corresponds directly to a decrease in traffic to their Hasura instance.

Even better, their two most highly requested queries are sitting at a 97% and 92% cache hit rate, respectively"


GraphQL is just HTTP, why isn’t a caching proxy like varnish enough?

blockchain use-case is just poor to say the least


Our GraphQL Edge Cache is based on Fastly's infrastructure, so we do use Varnish under the hood for the cache storage. In order to properly support GraphQL at the caching layer you have to understand GraphQL so you can do fine-grained invalidation.[0]

Essentially, our GraphQL Edge Cache is similar to a GraphQL client. It looks at the request body with the query & the response with the typenames and tags the cached query result with all the objects contained within. E.g. a getBlogPost query that fetches the blog post and its author will be tagged with BlogPost#asdf123 and User#gjkd489. Then we can invalidate whenever those specific objects change.

[0]: https://docs.stellate.co/docs/purging-api


how many businesses are having the problem you’re solving? is this number greater than 10?

aren’t you scared Fastly and Cloudflare will just clone your moat once they see some demand for a service like yours?


Akamai already solved this https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2019/06/18/announcing-grap...

But looks like they will build more out of the box integrations.


The number is actually greater than 1,000 right now. No, we're not scared of Fastly or Cloudflare and are actually cooperating with them. What makes you think that "they will just clone the moat"?


The question about how many people have the problem isn’t the same question as asking how many people you’ve managed to sign up, can you be clearer about what your number is referring to?

I’ve signed up for many more services than I actually need/use, and even amongst ones I use, there are certainly some solving problems I don’t really have.


I’ll be running Starlink off an Inergy solar generator at the Placerville adventure expo on June 3rd if anyone wants to see it in action. http://go.drod.io/InergyVanlife


I’m such a fan of this. Nicely done! I opted for a $3k Costco shed and went off grid with it even though it’s in my back yard: https://drodio.com/going-all-in-on-an-off-grid-workspace/

Off grid = No need for a permit but more importantly, a proof of concept that with starlink, this small office “shedquarters” could be placed anywhere in the world — say a beach in Costa Rica for example!


Imagine if all the nerds that could afford it set up their shacks on the beach in Costa Rica. Instant slum. I prefer the beach without such structures.


Replace “beach in Costa Rica” with any remote (or not) global location of your choice, which is the point.

We’re 1 year away from a low latency, gigabit speed ”shedquarters” workspace being available anywhere in the world for under $10k.


Bad news in some ways, good news in others. Tech is a two edged sword, and always will be.


"Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days."

https://twitter.com/Tippen22/status/1476985855981993984


Being off-grid wouldn't normally get you around building code; where are you that it does?


San Mateo: under 120 sq ft; no electrical.


Thanks! Quickly looking at the rules, it doesn't look to me like the issue is whether you're connected to the grid? If you have high-voltage wiring (50V+) it looks to me like you still need to get that permitted and inspected?


Don’t have HV then, at least as part of the structure. Say, 14.8V DC and a removable 120VAC inverter.


Sure, but you could also run 48V from the main structure, no?


Was the fast internet stuff worth it? I have a google mesh router in my garage about 20’ from my house and I get ~180mbs out there.


I’m using Ruckus setup which is bulletproof inside the house but wasn’t consistent in the shed, so yes, worth it


Looks awesome. I'd love something like that in my backyard. Only wish the write-up was longer!


The longer original shed writeup is here: https://drodio.com/creating-your-own-remote-workspace-for-un...


For our Founder community, we went from Slack, to Discord, to Circle: https://www.founderculture.net/c/new-noteworthy/our-communit...


Nice article and there is also indepth analysis of alternatives https://kb.founderculture.net/public/posts/460yq0p9. Intresting read!


Honored to have you as an investor, jedberg!

And I’d modify one thing you said: I believe the #1 most important skill for a startup CEO to master is storytelling —- which is critical for selling, fundraising and recruiting. https://www.founderculture.net/c/new-noteworthy/the-1-must-m...


I sold my last company https://drodio.com/socialize-was-acquired-by-sharethis-heres... and Armory was my 4th startup. I also probably don’t qualify as “young” having been doing startups since 2000.

I found YC to be extremely valuable for all the reasons I shared.

A side story: After I sold my last company in 2013, I met a guy (who worked at the acquiring company) that had big startup ambitions. We were on a bike ride one day (probably around 2015) and I told him I was going to apply to YC the following year to do a startup. He scoffed, and said the same things as you above — “YC is for young founders w/o experience.” He said he, too, was going to do a startup, but not apply to YC.

Fast forward five years. Armory is growing very fast. My buddy is unemployed after spending $350k of his own money attempting his startup.

Was YC the difference? Impossible to say. But I know my story is true, and I’m thankful for the intense focus YC provided — even for a startup veteran like me, with a successful exit, who didn’t necessarily think he needed it.


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