[HN Gopher] Show HN: ThreadQuilt: AI-Free Thread Aggregator
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Show HN: ThreadQuilt: AI-Free Thread Aggregator
Hey HN, I've been working on a project called ThreadQuilt, and I'm
excited to share it with you all. ThreadQuilt is a community
discussion aggregator that brings together the best threads from
various forums and platforms into one convenient place. Whether
you're interested in programming, tech trends, or just want to stay
updated on niche topics, ThreadQuilt helps you find and follow the
most relevant conversations without the clutter of AI-generated
content. It's all about real human discussions, curated for quality
and relevance. I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading
through endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With
ThreadQuilt, you get a cleaner, more focused experience that
highlights the best parts of the web's conversations. Check it out
and let me know what you think! Your feedback would mean the world
to me as I continue to improve and expand the site. Happy
threading!
Author : andes314
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-06-17 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.threadquilt.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.threadquilt.com)
| salamo wrote:
| This is cool. I clicked "deep learning models" and the results
| were ok, but some of them were out of date. It would be great if
| all of the threads were recent (within the last week or so).
| winddude wrote:
| 2 questions... why AI free? Is it only pulling from reddit,
| hacker news and stack exchange? I find a a lot of tech discussion
| has moved to discord, which makes it very hard to find... just
| even looking at your search samples, kubernetes and react both
| have official discord servers, and i'm sure there's talk about
| them in countless other servers.
| andes314 wrote:
| I can implement Discord threads! If anyone has any suggestions
| of what other threads to aggregate, let me know. The main issue
| I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving
| form different places at once.
|
| Additionally, I chose to avoid AI as I have picked up from a
| lot of people that Google's AI features have more or less
| ruined it. Do you think there is a way that I could use AI here
| that wouldn't ruin things?
| metadaemon wrote:
| You may have to start building your own reverse index if
| you're polling API's at query time
| winddude wrote:
| "The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too
| high when retrieving form different places at once." The
| solution for that is maintaining and updating an index.
| (Although that drives up costs.)
|
| Google has done a terrible job, but perplexity has done a
| pretty good job. I think there's quite a bit to be gained by
| summing/extracting desired information from threads. I'm
| thinking opinions on choosing tech stacks (eg, "should i use
| sql or nosql", "fastAPI vs supabase"...), or even fixing bugs
| (on that note, if you're going after tech, github might be
| another to look at).
|
| I defitley agree there's a ton of noise in discussions, I
| think LLM's are the current best way to cut through that
| noise.
| andes314 wrote:
| I had no intention of making a search engine, I really just
| envisioned a place to combine threads from different
| platforms and figured out along the way that it looked
| exactly like search.
|
| This seems to be an overcrowded market so I would be afraid
| to just "make a search engine". It seems difficult to me at
| the moment how exactly I can make ThreadQuilt a unique
| value proposition if I take that route.
|
| If AI is the differentiator, then I would absolutely want
| to integrate it.
| akkartik wrote:
| At first glance this looks excellent! I'm going to keep playing
| with it.
| andes314 wrote:
| If anyone has any feature suggestions, please let me know. I am
| trying to create as much value as I can here.
| andes314 wrote:
| Question: Should I combine threads and label them by origin
| instead of separating them like I have currently?
| curious_cat_163 wrote:
| > I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading through
| endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With ThreadQuilt,
| you get a cleaner, more focused experience that highlights the
| best parts of the web's conversations.
|
| I applaud your effort.
|
| I'll ask the obvious question around the strongly opinionated
| approach of not leveraging "AI". Would you like to expand on what
| that means to you? I would imagine that some form of intelligence
| could also help with noise reduction but maybe you considered it
| and decided otherwise.
| andes314 wrote:
| To be honest, I would rather use AI, because it would be more
| fun and cooler to work with. However, I have a track record of
| making things no one wants, so I really wanted to focus on what
| I thought would be more popular. Given I keep hearing that AI
| has "ruined" Google and other platforms, I figured it would be
| a good decision to not only cut it out from this but to
| emphasize it as a "marketing" strategy.
|
| I am absolutely not opposed to it, and if I can convince myself
| that integrating AI would be moreso "what people want" then I
| would integrate it (and have more fun).
| Pr0ject217 wrote:
| Just an FYI,
|
| https://www.threadquilt.com/search?topic=openbsd
|
| Throws a 500 and displays a stack trace of the server.
| andes314 wrote:
| I am retrieving threads from APIs per query, and stackexchange
| is rate limiting me. This is frustrating but a sign that search
| is popular! I will work on increasing rates with them, and
| long-term I have to educate myself on indexing.
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