Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3

by wilbertliu • 5 years ago

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ezekg• 5 years ago

What does GPT-3 bring to the table here, other than being a buzzword? It seems pretty simple to make a mutable list of synonyms for a given emoji.

Second question -- why does the pricing page say "182 spots left"? Is this a limited app release? I've never heard of anybody trying that before!

wilbertliu3• 5 years ago

Hi! The founder here.

I use GPT-3 to generate synonyms for all of the emojis.

And yes, it’s simple to have a list of synonyms. But is it easy? Calculate the time anyone takes to write synonyms for a particular emoji, and multiply it by the number of emojis (thousands). Not to mention the energy that people spend for it.

For the 2nd question – it’s a limited price deal, and it’ll go up in a few hours.

tanduv• 5 years ago

Calculate the time anyone takes to write synonyms

Did a quick Google search - there are ~3k emojis and ~100 were added in 2020.

Sure... it would've been a time consuming process to write synonyms for all emojis, but after the initial pass it shouldn't be a huge effort to update the list for new emojis. This would have the added benefit of having a human validated dataset, compared to what GPT3 might produce.

Also, there are resources such as Emojipedia which have at-least 2 or 3 synonyms per emoji. With that in perspective, the figure of 5k / 10k synonyms mentioned on your website doesn't seem that 'groundbreaking'.

I don't mean to undermine your work... the emoji search on macOS IS terrible. Just wanted to understand what value GPT3 brought to your product.

Wowfunhappy2• 5 years ago

What are the system requirements? (For example, I’m on 10.9, I assume that won’t work.)

wilbertliu3• 5 years ago

Hey! The support starts from Catalina (macOS 10.15) to the latest Big Sur. And works for Intel or M1 processor.

Wowfunhappy2• 5 years ago

Thanks! You may want to add that to your website somewhere, especially since the requirements are a tad stringent (lots of stuff still supports Mojave, for instance).

Show HN: I made a handy emoji picker on macOS with GPT-3

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