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Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
5 points by mguerville 1mo ago|3 comments
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by mguerville 2mo ago
As someone who makes a living in PowerPoint but loves tech and FOSS, congrats. I'm not sure I fully follow how collaborating works, you may want to write an explainer that assumes nearly zero engineering knowledge. Looking forward to t
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by mguerville 2mo ago
The examples shared are impressive but based on extremely high ISO and looking at noise on a 10x cropped area of worst case scenarios. To most of us it won't make a noticeable difference on all but a small handful of images per year, i
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by mguerville 3mo ago
My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I
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by mguerville 3mo ago
I'm a non engineer, never-coder but fairly technical guy and about a year ago I had Lovable.dev write me a static site generator because I understood the value of it to host cheaply/freely and thought it'd be a good exercise.
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by mguerville 3mo ago
Business/Office productivity tools can be productive at that rate. Core systems like ERP or arguably CRM can't, but MS Teams is probably already that low, Figma, Canva and several others could absolutely afford to be one nine befo
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by mguerville 6mo ago
Car seats have also deterred me from a few trips, short and long. They're a hassle to get an uber and store at destination (say a sporting event), and they are a nightmare to lug around airports and add to the effective travel time by
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by mguerville 7mo ago
And in the type of work where AI arguably yields productivity gains the workers have high agency and may pay for their own tooling without telling their employers. Case in point, me, I have access to CoPilot via my employer but don't u
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by mguerville 7mo ago
Agreed, the content implied by the title but not delivered would be substantially more interesting, especially if compared to Product Hunt, or other places fraught with launch announcement of small solo dev projects.
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by mguerville 8mo ago
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by mguerville 9mo ago
AI gives you the average of all expected answers (steered a bit to one side or another via prompt), I think people come to HN to hear decidely non-average viewpoints. So from that standpoint I'd say yes forbidding AI answer would go a
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by mguerville 10mo ago
I’m working to convert a pure services coaching business into a coaching augmented by technology. I want to keep the human coaches front and center but simplify operations and have tech/AI fill in where it helps both the clients and th
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by mguerville 11mo ago
Excel work of people who make a living because of their excel skills (Bankers, VCs, Finance pros) is truly on the spectrum of basic coding. Excel use by others (Strategy, HR, etc.) is more like crude UI to manipulate small datasets (filter,
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by mguerville 11mo ago
Sales (CRMs are all in browser now), Marketing (entire stack, include some creative (Canva) is in browser now), Strategy is half in powerpoint/xls (creating content) and half in browser (researching info), HR (Workday, LinkedIn, etc.),
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by mguerville 11mo ago
Very true, and also users aren't naive, it just signals that the greed factor is now winning over the pride into the product and it's the end of the product line as a truly DIY platform. I expect they'll wait a few months the
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by mguerville 1y ago
I use Inoreader and it removes duplicates (useful for rss feeds of google alerts), and can filter feeds so your feed is a tad less raw
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by mguerville 1y ago
I only hit that problem in voice mode, it'll just stop halfway and restart. It's a jarring reminder of its lack of "real" intelligence
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by mguerville 1y ago
Kirk spread misinformation and voiced opinions that were contributing to making the lives of several demographic groups more unsafe, repeatedly, for years, to a massive audience. Violence isn't the answer and I wish yesterday's ev
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by mguerville 1y ago
and these $12-24k are net dollars so the parents needs more like $20-40k of gross income to pay for it, but now they can have a small job or small business that nets them even as low as $15k and still come out ahead
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by mguerville 1y ago
Bolt.new has a nice IDE and Roo.code is literally just a VS Code Plugin
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by mguerville 1y ago
Would like to learn more, I tried the same recently using existing tools (clay, CRM, make/zapier, instantly) but the cost of the GTM stack was not sustainable
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Show HN: A breathing exercises app that remix my favorite features of others(breathflow.netlify.app)
3 points by mguerville 1y ago|2 comments
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by mguerville 1y ago
(Disclaimer: "vibe-coded" with bolt) I have several breathing apps on my phone and watch and find each of them to be strong at one thing but weak at others (e.g. on has nice visuals but no way to customize the length of the exerci
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by mguerville 1y ago
A social advocacy platform for small and medium sized B2B businesses. LinkedIn is more or less the only social platform for B2B social selling and smaller firms could benefit from their posts getting a bit more augmented and coordinated en
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by mguerville 1y ago
Anecdotally I believe Chicago has also become more chronically gridlocked, mostly for the same reasons the article cites.
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by mguerville 1y ago
But what does it do? The landing page is very rough and gives me no idea why I should entrust it with my OpenAI API key
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by mguerville 2y ago
This is neat, a simple tweak could be to allow change in the number of players, right now it kinda works if you just drag a player out of the field.
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by mguerville 2y ago
The invites market has been such a weird spot, with tons of small apps and sites and such low appetite from users to pay for this that this feels like a perfect opportunity. it's the kind of thing that should be a feature of iOS or Goo
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by mguerville 2y ago
I think the appeal can also be that suddenly a weekend in Paris/Rome/(choose your destination) is as feasible (time-wise, if not budget-wise) and logistically light as a trip to Cancun. I for one don't usually go to Europe un
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by mguerville 2y ago
Or the investment was made under the assumption the business model to gain traction isn't the same as the future one that generates cash flow. Plenty of company start with a free or cheap product then up their pricing once the value is

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