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Re:Show HN: Build a Video RAG under 30 lines of code on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:27PM (#42745266)
Hi everyone - I'm also on the team building tl;dw.

tl;dw is an API for AI video understanding, or in other words, easily create embeddings from videos.

We enable developers to easily leverage the latest advancements in AI video understanding without time-consuming overhead (like research and code implementation from scratch).

One big thing video embeddings unlock is the ability for AI agents to ingest video, use it in their RAG pipelines, and at affordable costs.

This is an early version but check us out. The API is available now + we have a website Playground where you can easily try us out.

Let us know what you think!

github repo w/ code samples: https://github.com/tldw-ai/example-playbooks docs: https://trytldw.ai/docs playground: https://trytldw.ai/examples get api key:https://trytldw.ai/account?tab=api

Re:Ask HN: Best cold email practices for MVP-stage startups? on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:23PM (#38169953)
Thanks for the response.

Our users are Youtubers so we manually collected emails of creators that fit the profile of our current users.

We're trying different copy as the post mentioned, going from humble to more salesy. We just sent another round of emails. It's too early to call it but our updated language does seem better.

Haven't tried incentives! Will test that later.

Ask HN: Best cold email practices for MVP-stage startups?

What have you found to work when sending cold emails to potential customers as a new, still incomplete product startup?I've found that taking the more humble, "hey we're still developing it but we'd love for you to try it" to have more success on Reddit & Twitter.We've been trying it on email but seems like it's not working. We're getting 30% open rate but no responses. We're going to test...

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Ask HN: How do you project manage your personal projects

Hey HN,I'm building an AI chatbot that helps people be accountable towards their personal project goals. Think of it as a way for people to do 10 minute stand-up meetings to report on their progress.I'm looking to interview a few people on how they manage their own personal projects. If you're interested, let me know here or DM!Personally I've needed something like this. I've been indiehacking...

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Show HN: AI Chat with Anime Characters

https://www.dachi.chat/chat/tohsaka

I've been hacking away on Dachi. It has character chat just like character.ai/Replika, but I wanted to better emulate how text messaging and relationship building work in real life - as if you're exchanging texts and getting to know the character as if it were real life.Also its meant to be more of a cool platonic AI companion rather than the romantic stuff like Replika...Feature Roadmap:...

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Re:Show HN: CreatorCast: Curated Sketch Creators on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:41AM (#24332566)
Hi HN!

I just launched a project called creatorcast.tv

It's a curated selection of Youtube sketch comedy creators.

I've been a huge fan of indie sketch creators since the early days of Youtube, but today the Youtube algo prioritizes content from influencers and Hollywood. So I wanted to build this platform to give another way for talented sketch creators to develop bigger audiences. Hopefully it's reminiscent of 2011's Youtube content :)

The site is still very young and still has a lot more development work to do but let me know if you have any feedback and if you like the content there! I plan on adding new videos each week and building a community around creating high quality sketch videos.