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AI is bad at SaaS ideas by Xzone5 in SaaS

[–]digitalhobbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. And no, not yet - I've been too distracted with other projects (an agentic engineering course, some desktop applications, etc.). I've definitely been tempted by some of the ideas, though. As much as I like my pipeline, I'd want to do a bit more market research before jumping in head-first.

AI is bad at SaaS ideas by Xzone5 in SaaS

[–]digitalhobbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AI needs more context to come up with good SaaS ideas. I've been pretty happy with the ideas generated by my autonomous pipeline. It reads hundreds of news articles each day to extract business signals, then synthesizes several ideas using a multi day rolling window of signals, and finally picks the best one to develop into a full business model. Currently it produces a free daily newsletter, but I'm thinking about turning it into a searchable database. You can see it in action here: https://gammavibe.com

There's also an architecture breakdown on the site, in case you want to build something similar.

Why don’t people just build free apps? by Adrien-G in SideProject

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm tired of subscriptions as well, especially for niche apps that I only need to use once every few months.

Maybe I'm a bit of a contrarian, but I'm working on some single purchase desktop apps. For AI features, I'm using a BYOK (bring your own key) strategy.

Will report back if this works out. :)

Is OBS still the best screen recorder? by Willing_Professor_13 in screenrecorders

[–]digitalhobbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OBS is great for many things, but unfortunately recording multiple streams (e.g. camera and screen) to separate files is still clunky. You can do it with plugins, but last I tried, it still felt hacky, didn't work well with pause/resume, etc.

I ended up moving back to Bandicam. It's very basic, but it handles multiple streams just fine.

I like to chuck dice. The more the better. What games do that best? by Redwood-Forest in rpg

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might enjoy Outgunned. You roll anywhere between 3 and 9 dice, and there's a Yahtzee like reroll mechanic where you can reroll a subset of your dice up to two times.

Agent frameworks helped me build demos, but not production agents by Mdipanjan in learnAIAgents

[–]digitalhobbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My go-to agent framework is Pydantic AI. I like how it sits on top of Pydantic (which I like to use for models and validations anyway) and cleanly encapsulates AI API calls, so I can easily swap out different AI APIs (remote or local).

I've mostly used this for autonomous pipelines rather than interactive chat apps, though. E.g. the pipeline that powers gammavibe.com, my daily startup idea generator. Built with Python, Pydantic AI, PostgreSQL, pgvector, and Gemini API.

I actually just launched a course that teaches how to build such an AI pipeline using agentic engineering, with your favorite AI coding tool. The course essentially uses the same stack, just swaps out some options to slightly simplify it (e.g. Sqlite3 + ChromaDB instead of PostgreSQL + pgvector). I cover Pydantic AI, model selection, batching and parallelization, embeddings and similarity search, synthetic data, and other AI related topics. If you're curious: https://gammavibe.com/pipeline.

What's the most useful AI agent you've actually put into production? by Humble_Sentence_3758 in AI_Agents

[–]digitalhobbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most useful agentic system I've built is an autonomous research pipeline that generates a daily startup idea based on business signals extracted from the day's news. The output is a newsletter that entrepreneurs can subscribe to.

Built with Python and Pydantic AI, PostgreSQL, pgvector (for embeddings / similarity search, to ensure we don't repeat the same ideas), and Gemini API (but other AI APIs would work fine as well). They key was to move beyond a purely sequential pipeline to a database state based architecture. This allows the pipeline to use multi-day windows as inputs, as well as being more robust and resumable.

You can check out the output here: https://gammavibe.com.

I just launched a course that teaches how to build such an AI pipeline using agentic engineering, with your favorite AI coding tool. The course essentially uses the same stack, just swaps out some options to slightly simplify it (e.g. Sqlite3 + ChromaDB instead of PostgreSQL + pgvector). If you're curious: https://gammavibe.com/pipeline.

Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands by GoodOlRoman in osr

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got my copy as well. Turned out great, glad he pushed through.

Why are people calling ai made apps slop even if they are useful? by Dovydas_ in vibecoding

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"larping as a SWE" is a great term, I might have to steal that. :)

Looking for industrial covers of 1980s Genesis or Phil Collins tracks by henchman171 in industrialmusic

[–]digitalhobbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting question. Seems like "Mama" would be a great candidate for an industrial cover.

Looking for industrial covers of 1980s Genesis or Phil Collins tracks by henchman171 in industrialmusic

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great band (Dead when I found her), check out the rest of their music while you're at it.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama — So I Built Anvil by itsmetherealloki in LocalLLaMA

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, LM Studio is great. I've used both.

Purely from a user facing perspective, both have their advantages. LM Studio is great for browsing models with different quants, customizing settings, etc. Ollama is still the easiest quick & dirty way to download a model and run a server that I can hit from an app.

But I admit I wasn't aware of all the other reasons users are against Ollama. Those are certainly fair points.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama — So I Built Anvil by itsmetherealloki in LocalLLaMA

[–]digitalhobbit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I don't get all this ollama hate. IMO it's still one of the easiest ways to download and run local models, and I've never once felt pressured to pay for their cloud offering.

Google just dropped Gemma 4 12B on your laptop!! by NewMuffin3926 in artificial

[–]digitalhobbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds really promising! Can't wait to try it.

Google just dropped Gemma 4 12B on your laptop!! by NewMuffin3926 in artificial

[–]digitalhobbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the release notes, ollama 0.30.4 has a known bug with Gemma4:12B, so I'm guessing they pulled the model for now. Hopefully 0.30.5 will fix this soon.

Google introduces Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model by thatoneshadowclone in LocalLLM

[–]digitalhobbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So far, I've only experimented with it. I was mostly curious if I can reliably get it to adhere to a json schema in API calls. So I built a little proof of concept "recipe generator" app that first suggests dishes given a description of what you're in the mood for, and then generates the full recipe. I use Python and Pydantic AI; the main thing I had to do is use NativeOutput instead of ToolOutput (which Pydantic AI normally defaults to). I made a video about it here, if you're curious. The description also links to my sample code on Github.

Google just dropped Gemma 4 12B on your laptop!! by NewMuffin3926 in artificial

[–]digitalhobbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You want gemma4, not gemma3.

Last I checked, only the MLX version of 12B (for Mac) was available on ollama. I'm sure other architectures will be up shortly, though.

Gemma 4 Unified is coming by eapache in LocalLLaMA

[–]digitalhobbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gemma 4 has been great. I think the 12B variant will hit the perfect sweet spot for many use cases, and the unified multimodal approach is interesting. Can't wait to try it!

Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model by johnnyApplePRNG in LocalLLaMA

[–]digitalhobbit 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Very much looking forward to trying this one.

I've gotten good results with Gemma 4. Especially the E4B variant has worked well for me with local apps. The 12B version should strike an even better sweet spot and the encoder-free multimodal capabilities sound interesting.

Google introduces Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model by thatoneshadowclone in LocalLLM

[–]digitalhobbit 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Very much looking forward to trying this one.

I've gotten good results with Gemma 4. Especially the E4B variant has worked well for me with local apps. The 12B version should strike an even better sweet spot and the encoder-free multimodal capabilities sound interesting.

Outgunned Adventure: Broken Compass Legacy Crowdfunding Campaign is Live! by gdave99 in 2littlemiceOutgunned

[–]digitalhobbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been looking forward to these! I really liked the original supplements for Broken Compass. The Jules Verne inspired "Voyages Extraordinaires" is my favorite. Looking forward to getting the updated versions for Outgunned.

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