tysehr37
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We were looking at potential ways to use GPT in Cookbook and found an interesting user pain-point in the process.
Some context: Cookbook is a web3 developer tool that aggregates smart contracts and provides metadata, documentation, security reports, and integration tools to use these smart contracts in your project.
As we've been building Cookbook, we realized that most smart contracts running in production have incomplete documentation, or lack detail.
We put together a quick MVP for docs generated GPT3.5 and the results are pretty promising. While they definitely can have issues, on the whole, they seem to do a good job filling in empty documentation, and provide an accurate description of the code.
We'd love to try:
- generated testing suites
- generated security scans
- no-code smart contract creation
Would love to get your thoughts and feedback on how we can make this a more useful feature. Looking forward to getting it running with GPT4!
Posted by
tysehr37 on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:48PM
from the show-hn dept.
Thank you! That's our goal. We want to make building in Web3 significantly faster and easy with Cookbook.
Software engineers tend to follow demand, with some lagtime. Since crypto goes through these manic bull/bear cycles, demand dramatically spikes and falls. Hard to make a career change when the next bear cycle can wipe out your prospects. As crypto stabilizes, there should be a wave of immigration into web3 engineering. You can already kind of see who these engineers will be, they're often the web2 developers who just happen to be working on web3 projects (and don't know solidity)
Someone was actually building a decentralized commodities exchange, and used a couple of Cookbook contracts to build out their infrastructure
We work with SMBs and Startups for advanced contracts, analytics and tooling. That's really how we're able to sustainably keep Cookbook free for individual developers
It really depends on what you're after, we do have a widget to embed web3 functions into any site, it's in early beta.
Definitely plans to support different smart contract languages over time. For the short term we're focusing on Solidity as most web3 devs use it.
This is exactly it. The way to think about it is that smart contracts are effectively server-side code that is specialized to run on blockchains. They use many of the same building blocks and can often be reused. When I want to build Auth in Nodejs, I might use Passport.js, and I often use Express.js. Often I'll use mongoose.js as well. That's effectively what we're providing with cookbook, a way to find and utilize solidity packages created by the community.
Many of the contracts have their audits listed, you can read through the audits to see whether its safe to use or not. But as always, you should make sure to do your own testing before deploying to production.
The majority of web3 developers only just recently entered the space, and are looking for simpler tools. We discovered this from a long series of interviews. The goal is to build cookbook in a web2 dev accessible way, and present all of the stats and audits and information so that they are more able to make dapps.
Feel free to request one or contribute one, we're adding new contracts every day
Openzeppelin provides a very limited number of templates. Great for importing into a smart contract and extending from, but requires a fair bit of work to get there. With cookbook, people can use/deploy completed contracts from other projects for many more usecases than openzeppelin.
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tysehr37 on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:53PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.cookbook.dev/
Cookbook is a free open Smart Contract Marketplace. Find, deploy and integrate the smart contracts used and audited by other projects.
- view audits and stats
- no-code deploy supporting 9 chains
- contribute and collaborate with other web3 developersCurrently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain or if you want to create smart contracts. Cookbook.dev makes...
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I would make an embeddable payment widget for this. Provide as an iframe and include web3 dependencies. that way users can pay directly from their metamask
Would love to see a Tesla hacked
absolutely. Just like any other technology, the potential can be used for both good and evil
I think in most cases, NFTs are clearly collectible art. It's hard to say when these projects branch out and become about more, but I'd still err on the side of not securities.
Really depends what you're after. I personally have stuck with mac for the last 5 years for ease of use and build quality. After working on mining rigs, I really value all-in-one to avoid dealing with configuration issues and the like. If you're looking for that fine tuned granular control though, then mac won't ever satisfy.
Thanks for posting this, will use it for ideas and inspiration
We're still so early in, web3 accessibility is still the biggest priority
Super impressive. Crazy this was able to scale so much without hiring.
Interesting, their way of demonstrating a 4th dimension is very unique. love how it became a game mechanic
Incredible how Brian Eno was able to pioneer this style of music
Will this work with typical browsers? would be great to put a website at a .ether domain
Other efforts focus on content generated by individuals using that specific platform. Most of the best content is already available on other platforms like Twitter and Reddit. The key problem is how scattered that is, our service aggregates them.