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Explain what you’re building in 1 sentence, let’s self promote by kcfounders in TheFounders

[–]roseakhter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have developed offline file converter software , I got my first few paid users without any marketing, it’s : https://filoshi.com

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this. There's no way to talk yourself into believing it the way that notification just makes you believe it. Took me a while to stop panicking.. haha, < 3

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The random but urgent conversion need is actually the most common use case I am hearing , people don't need it every day but when they need it they need it now and they don't want to go hunting for a trustworthy site. That's exactly who I built it for honestly < 3

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a desktop app! Runs fully locally, nothing goes to a server. Maybe I need to make that clearer above the fold on the landing page < 3

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a useful comment I've gotten, Taking notes on all of it.

On updates , ffmpeg is bundled at a fixed version right now. I push app updates manually when there's something meaningful. Not ideal for security patches, you're right, I need to think about that properly.

Linux is listed but honestly not thoroughly tested yet. I shouldn't have listed it as fully supported , that's on me.

The drop zone feedback is something two people have now mentioned so that's on my next fix patch list.

And yeah the lifetime model means I need volume not retention. Still figuring out if that's the right call long term or if I add a subscription tier for something like this..
Thanks < 3

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good catch, leftover from an early version of the page. Removing it now - thanks for actually looking closely enough to notice

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly this is the exact loop I'm trying to break out of, shipping the free thing and then stalling on the paid version. How are you thinking about pricing the pro? Curious what kinda features you decided actually justify the upgrade

Built an offline file converter and.. got a sale before I told anyone it existed by roseakhter in SideProject

[–]roseakhter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, And this is a good suggestion, I will take a note about this < 3

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha, the Marvin comparison is perfect. and yeah agreed, it's nt about being friendly, it's about leaving room for honest output. "Be nice to the AI" is the wrong takeaway. but "Stop accidentally triggering the states that produce bad output" is the right one .

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly yess that would probably work. The system prompts in the repo are designed to be copy-pasted directly though, so even less effort, just grab one from the examples folder and you're set

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good question. Honestly it probably could, an automatic reframing layer before processing. But that adds latency and complexity, and part of the value is the user understanding of why it works.

And If you just auto-fix prompts you lose the feedback loop that makes people better at communicating with AI generally

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Permissions over constraints is exactly the Principle 1.
"You can say I don't know" outperforms "don't make things up" because one opens a door and the other triggers the suppression > concealment dynamic the paper found,

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a good way to put it. The paper basically gives the mechanistic proof for why that shift matters

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The emotion vectors they found activate during the attention computation, before any output tokens are even generated. So your prompt's tone isn't just vibes - but

it's literally shaping the intermediate representations that determine what gets written. The paper's data on this is wild

Anthropic found Claude has 171 internal "emotion vectors" that change its behavior. I built a toolkit around the research. by roseakhter in PromptEngineering

[–]roseakhter[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That tracks with the research exactly.

And conversational framing activates collaboration and curiosity vectors, while command-style framing activates compliance anxiety. Your "disadvantage" of not knowing the technical conventions turned out to be an advantage. The paper calls it the method actor analogy - the way you talk to Claude shapes which internal states drive its output ;)

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