I think there's a category of these kinds of things where you apply AI to do something humans could do, but could not be bothered to do. Or could not profitably do. At least no human would categorize all these reviews just for lols.
Another recent example from HN would be that site which just lists hotel rooms that have a desk and a chair. It would be an incredibly dull task for a human to look at a million hotel room pictures and just select if they have a desk or not.
What else somewhat useful/fun could we do applying perhaps a little worse than human attention at something, but a lot of it?
We've been hosting both AirBnB and Couchers/CouchSurfing.
AirBnB has the vibe that you as the host are a provider of a service, which will be rated by the "customer". Couchsurfing is just some people hanging out.
Agreed, the TikTok one will be vastly more popular, as it requires no creative input. Also much more near-term. Some version could be shipped within months.
It's already partially that, just with humans still supplying the prompts and doing some cherrypicking before posting their AI-generated videos. I wonder if there will be some "for you (AI)" and "for you (non-AI)", and which one will end up being the default?
Try Roblox (YouTube but for games essentially). You can publish a game just a few clicks, and even quite simple games can get popular enough that you get the satisfaction of seeing others interact with the thing you made, which is very motivating.
This will probably have some cool non-obvious benefits.
For instance if the scenes are a blob of input weights, what would it look like to add some noise to those, could you get some cool output that wouldn't otherwise be possible?
Would it look interesting if you took two different scene representations and interpolated between them? Etc. etc.
I’m a full-time dev on the platform, here’s my take.
Roblox algo heavily favors games with good retention, that explains something like the first 50k concurrent users. But this game also has a lot word-of-mouth effect because the seeds for sale are the same for everyone, creating a Wordle-like effect of talking about the best thing to buy.
First I'd look if there are any lists of plugins you could get it added to. Maybe there are directories you can submit to, or if you find such lists as blog posts, can try asking the author to add it.
Another way would be to share your learnings. If you make a good blog writeup about something you learned, you now have something shareable with a natural way to include a link to the project. I don't know anything about the IntelliJ community, but you could see where they hang out and what kinds of posts seem to do well. Maybe you can write something similar.
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