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I tried the same thing last year (with openai models), back then it worked to reduce prompt tokens, but you needed way more completion tokens, ultimately more expensive (and slower) https://pagewatch.ai/blog/post/llm-text-as-image-tokens/
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:51PM (#47744330)
Still working https://pagewatch.ai/ , my ai readiness audit tool. Currently having fun building a MCP app for it inside Claude / ChatGPT, its oddly tricky to get things behaving consistently.
The github link is also going to a 404.

I built a tool to check for these issues, was curious if it would find it all, but yes.

https://pagewatch.ai/s-bm6jq1qs6y1x/b560hmfx/dashboard/previ...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:13PM (#47304088)
Ironically I'm getting SSL handshake failed on your site
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:11PM (#47303621)
Really pretty keyboard widget, though it did slightly confuse me that is showing the next key, not what I actually typed.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:07PM (#47303580)
There is so much opportunity in AI that is not just a chatbot, I almost feel there should be category of tools that is LLM powered, but not [here is empty textbox] Best of luck!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:00PM (#47303529)
https://pagewatch.ai/ - make sure LLM's can understand your site.

There is a surprising amount of edge cases that can cause ChatGPT or others to misunderstand your pages. Some models can handle div based tables, some want alt tags but cannot understand title tags, etc.

I built the tool to check your site as close as possible to what a human would see and then compare it with LLM's.

It was a weird journey trying to tease this info out of the models, they will happily lie, skip checking sites or just make things up.

Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:47PM (#46917920)
I've been very happy with https://render.com/ , seems the closest to what heroku was
Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:32PM (#46547434)
I think this might be one of the first times I didnt notice it, but just look through the comment history of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jackfranklyn , they all look the same.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2025) on Sunday November 02, 2025 @07:29AM (#45789832)
https://pagewatch.ai/

Building a tool to check your site layout and copy from multiple devices. Uses gpt-5 vision to find inconsistencies in headings/images.

Landing page is pretty but some serious spelling errors going on in the main title ('Flixible Email', 'Bussines'), might want to fix that :) see https://pagewatch.ai/s-jbjiz2qxvndc/li4tigvz/dashboard
Re:Show HN: I made a landing page audit checklist on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:41AM (#45681720)
FIY your homepage automatically loads new content when you scroll down, making things look quite chaotic and impossible to see the footer.
Re:Rivian's Also E-bike is like nothing you've ever seen on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:35PM (#45676038)
This thing at least looks like a bike, some of the 'e-bikes' are way more motorcycles than actually meant to be paddled.
Re:Django 6.0 beta 1 released on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:29PM (#45675982)
A task framework could be very useful, setting up celery task can get complicated very fast, especially once you have multiple servers with rolling deploys or recurring task (celery-beat). Rails has active-job and is always something I felt was missing from Django.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:32PM (#45663973)
https://render.com/ is probably the closest, I'm really enjoying using them. Workflow is the same as heroku, but cheaper, no nightly restarts, supports new python versions etc..
Re:The scariest "user support" email I've ever received on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:35PM (#45651152)
Pretty clever to host the malware on a sites.google.com domain, makes it look way more trustworthy. Google should probably stop allowing people to add content under that address.
Astro is really fun to work with, cool that you can add components from vue/react etc all on the same page. Sounds like they are planning to use the money for their AI builder, hopefully the core keeps getting worked on also.
Re:Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me? on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:42AM (#42812920)
Do you have an affiliate plan, or likely to have one? Maybe they plan to redirect with their affiliate ID at some point?
Re:Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:57PM (#40569950)
Ha not bad, pagewatch.ai

  Look at that video player, apologizing profusely because it doesn’t know why it 
  can’t load. Sadly, it’s the most relatable thing on your webpage. Your site is 
  like a desperate dating profile: "I swear I'm different! 
I wanted to reciprocate with my tool (not as spicy) https://pagewatch.ai/5f5c1cef-c119-4389-9641-965a4fee2b33/29...
Re:UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look on Sunday June 02, 2024 @10:33AM (#40554500)
It is cloudflare that blocked us, we scrape using a regular chrome instance (with the latest user-agent), but cloudflare are sometimes very aggressive in their blocking. I'm busy adding a proxy option to handle these cases automatically, and some way to whitelist our scraper.
Re:UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look on Saturday June 01, 2024 @03:10PM (#40548293)
I'm using this for the AI annotations at https://pagewatch.ai/ Its strange how much different it makes the whole page feel from regular boxes, much more of a tangible/informal feeling. Felt perfect to go with the type of feedback LLM's give.
I'm struggling a bit to figure out the pricing here. If I have lets say 50 users that sync Trello, does that count as 50 synced connections?
Re:GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:36AM (#39989134)
Same thing happened to me, I'm in South Africa
Seems like a fun scraping project, I think you have to work on extracting more accurate categories though, for example this link does not really include snowboards for me: https://www.searchagora.com/search?query=Snowboard And the first products I clicked have rather weird descriptions, https://www.searchagora.com/products/snowboard-bd2a90aa-6808...

Maybe its my location (South Africa) but I also cannot visit the product store when I click through

Re:Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:30PM (#39256021)
Seems surprising ok for coding related queries ('celery rate limit'), I'm curious about their scraping setup, building that out must be quite a big task.
This is pretty cool, it is able to parse data out of a random pricing table somewhere in the page. It does seem to just make up data it if is not found in the page (probably expected with LLM's), I wonder if you can reduce that with some prompting, or maybe verify the data is actually present? Your schema page docs is broken https://singleapi.co/docs/schema
phind is awesome, a few times it has helped me where GPT-4 could not due to its knowledge cutoff. some minor feedback on the UI, it doesn't always scroll to the bottom if it is generating code, and I have to manually scroll it into view
Re:Persistence of Vision Test on Saturday June 04, 2022 @07:01AM (#31618963)
Surprising how well I can see the image even after putting the separation to 64. The image is just a few thin strips yet I can easily see the whole thing if I follow the scrolling, really cool.

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