I launched a chrome extnsion there and had almost the same experience. One of the products above me was where startups literally pay to become pieces of a snake and move toward the head. Whoever pays the most gets the head and so on and so on. It had 73 upvotes. Super scammy shit being upvoted was a sign of bots to me, so I wouldn't take it seriously. The site seemed kind of shitty to me.
That's interesting, when I was preparing to launch I saw an app with the same concept where startups "buy" their country on a world map. Some of the countries like Norway were "premium countries" so they cost extra for placement. I doubt anyone will think of that site in a couple of weeks. I thought it was kind of novel but I've now seen a couple more that are just blatant cash grabs like that.
Slow progress, but better than what product hunt made it look :)
10 active users on the chrome store, but even a small amount of strangers installing and keeping it feels way more real than that snake bullshit I saw upvoted.
Before LLMs, there were Markov chain bots. We used SeeBorg on IRC and over time its dictionary would fill up with whatever everyone said. Most of it was nonsense, but every once in a while it would say something perfectly timed. Almost everything It said making sense or not was hilarious though.
the people without a model are also the easiest users to lose, they won't file a bug or explain what broke. they'll just click twice, decide the product is unreliable and use something else. then the team sees no bug report and assumes everything is fine.
I've had situations where I wished there was a robot I could get to plug in a cable.
The question with this and other efforts is: will this be used to enhance or maintain quality or will it be allowed to reduce costs and whatever quality level arises is the new acceptable?
Robot pizza that made Michelin level pizza would be welcomed. If we're just supposed to eat whatever crap tier pizza the robot owner can manage, why would anyone bother?
i'll be surprised if anthropic doesnt follow. cursors biggest advantage has been giving users a polished wrapper around whichever frontier model they prefer
this is a pretty clean test of whether people were buying cursor or just using it for convenient access to whichever model was flavor of the week.
i work in qa so i'm naturally wary of adding another critical dependency to a development workflow, if the model you actually want can just disappear because two vendor change ownership or start argueing then the wrapper has to be really good on its own.
cursors harness and its own models may be good enough that users stay, and if they do cursor has a moat at least. if everyone follows the openai models out the door, it will just become a polished ui.
Models are like programming, language languages. You don’t need to follow them. If you don’t do video stuff don’t worry about it. You could probably digest mode every month or two and be just fine.
Two months and 1100+ commits to rediscover a bug that was already found in 2024 is probably the funniest possible ending to a "vibecoded fuzzer" story.
No, the funny thing is that this comment is comming from an account with 1 karma, no submisions and only 1 comment, I wonder if this is your only account and you just came to spill hate or you are using multiple accounts to discredit other peoples work.
Two months and 1.1k+ commits to rediscover an already known bug IS funny. That doesn't mean I hate the person or want to discredit their work. You're reading way too much into a comment :)
Humor is subjective, not objective; if we delve into the subjective realm, I can feel whatever I want, just like you. You haven't offered anything constructive yet. I'm more willing to listen to your ideas if you have any.
I really wasn't trying to offer anything constructive. I was just pointing out something I found funny and made a joke about it. It wasn't anything more serious than that.
