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I'm sure the record standing so long is partially down to the fact the mile isn't run at major championships, although the middle distances like 800m and 1500m are more of an open field and not dominated by East Africans like longer distances such as 5k and 10k (Josh Kerr is already an Olympic silver medallist, finishing behind a white American and ahead of an Ethiopian-American).
I think agents will get much better at solving these problems in the medium term. In the short term you should at least be observing what the agent is doing when vulnerabilities like this are so easy to create. Using AI to generate structured RPA tasks like with browsable.app or director.ai is still a better option for now for many tasks
They made $4 billion last year, not really "little to no money". I agree it's not clear they can justify their valuation but it's certainly not a bubble.
How do people integrate steps on websites/web scraping into their larger workflows? I’m looking to try and integrate my own browser RPA tool [1] into n8n but I’m not sure how useful it is.
Building browser-based RPA workflows with https://browsable.app/
Notably not an AI agent like Operator, Manus, etc. which are largely unreliable for the time being. Instead this uses AI to turn your task into something repeatable and configurable.
Currently focusing on scraping use cases but hope to make it more powerful soon so it can actually do complex tasks rather than just extracting data.
Creating a tool to automate browser tasks: https://browsable.app.
It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point, click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc.
Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited about it.
Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather than being runover by them.
Just been playing around with the bounding box feature myself - do you mind sharing how you figured out how to translate the bounding boxes back to the correct dimensions/position on the original image?
I would say things are worse but it's difficult to disentangle it from the other major events like Covid and the war. Also worth pointing out that the UK's economic stagnation began well before Brexit and goes back to the 2008 crash: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvPzCWYXwAEoIRu?format=jpg&name=....
As someone who supports Brexit, I always thought there would be greater costs in the short term but getting out of institutional structure of the EU would be beneficial long term, as long as we take advantage of the institutional freedom and try to get onto a different path as a country (investing heavily in science and technology, having a more rational approach to regulation, having an immigration system that attracts great talent while also controlling the borders and thus making the whole thing less toxic).
I haven't overall changed my view as the EU still seems to be on a very bad path as I see it, I can't say I'm hugely optimistic about the UK either though. There are glimmers of hope like the new ARIA institution for blue sky science, but the main political parties are a pretty depressing spectacle.
Same as another commenter, I try to make it a habit of either referencing documentation when I need to answer a question or making a note to fill it in when I can't find a reference.
For searching documentation there's a lot to be desired too so I'll make a shameless plug for my side project: https://neat.wiki. It's a simple wiki creator on top of Google Drive but I'm layering on some GPT-3 goodness for semantic search and question answering so you can always find what you're looking for.
I don't with agree Rogan's point but it isn't hypocritical for him to do the opposite of what he advises 21 year olds because he's not 21, he's 54.
BuiltWith.com is pretty much just one guy doing over $10m per year. At the notch below there are others like Pieter Levels who I think is doing over $1m per year with Nomad List and RemoteOK and I think it's mostly just him with some part time help. Probably a few more that no one has heard of.
I'm still getting absolute position output with auto-layout - it seems to be a mix of both.
Yes the current public version of Pygma is no good - I've just been heads down trying to get the complete version working and haven't really been attending to the current plugin.
Nice work in that the output looks pretty close and it's super convenient to open it in CodeSandbox. Unfortunately it still has the same issue as all other plugins that try to do this in that the code is nothing like how it would be written by a developer and isn't responsive.
Anyone reading this whose looking for the holy grail solution of Figma to code that's written like a developer wrote it, I'm working on this (should be ready soon!) and would love to talk to you - please email me on emile@pygma.app (note that the current public version isn't very good and suffers from the same problems as all the others).
In case you're using Google docs/drive for docs at the moment, I've built https://neat.wiki for precisely this purpose. If it's documentation for code there are better options though.
I haven't used it but it seems to be: less powerful search, no public wikis, no custom domains. Also, I personally don't like their design but maybe that's just me.
https://pygma.app - Export semantic React, HTML, and CSS from Figma. Not working that well yet tbh, but I'm definitely learning a lot working on it.
Looks cool, going to try it out when you release the Figma version. One advice would be raise your prices - if it's worth paying for at all then you should charge a lot more than $8 / year.
Not directly relevant to your use case but I've built something that does what you ask from a Google Drive: https://neat.wiki (might be relevant since Google Drive is so widely used).
Identifying the elements within a GUI image (e.g. this is a button, that's an input field, etc.). I want this myself for a tool I'm building to turn Figma designs into code but it's also useful for things like automated testing. There are a bunch of papers on this already but no good public version that I can find. Probably companies like UIPath already have a sophisticated version of this internally. If you could do this and turn it into an API it would be quite valuable I think.
Great insight, thanks!
What are your issues with Google Docs search? Just curious as I'm building a product to generate a better wiki out of Docs/Drive.
This is great - I was trying to calculate option profit for something a few months ago and it was a huge pain using the free options I found on Google so I think this might have legs. Best of luck.
I'm working on this with https://pygma.app. I was too quite surprised that no one has done a better job of this yet. One obvious issue is that Figma works in absolute positions and this is generally a bad way of writing CSS, but this is mostly overcome with some simple heuristics. At the moment my product is more like Overlay, which produces code that is visually consistent but often not semantic or what the designer would have intended. I think this can largely be solved with machine learning, computer vision in particular. Uizard seems like the most impressive product in this regard but their use case is slightly different.
Another problem is that most product teams don't just need to generate code once but also keep it in sync with Figma. As far as I can tell, no one has solved the syncing problem in either direction particularly well. I actually think syncing from React -> Figma is not fundamentally difficult but you need to build a big hairy compiler to deal with any React + styling code which would be a PITA. Going in the other direction is more fundamentally difficult I think, probably needs very good machine learning as well.
Also, always love to hear more details about precisely what's so painful and boring about the way you deal with it now?
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Currently working on a startup (design to code compiler) - looking for part-time contracting work.
A design to code compiler, starting with Figma -> HTML, React + CSS. https://pygma.app
I believe one difference with Covid is that people often have issues across multiple organs (I believe this is because the virus binds to ACE2 receptors which are present over the body, not an expert though) whereas with flu/pnemuonia I think it's more likely to be just generic fatigue and lung capacity as longer term effects.
I think the sheer range of long lasting symptoms is quite unique to Covid, although other diseases like Ebola or Smallpox would leave more severe damage.
Hey, sorry I just realised I forgot to come back to this, here's some feedback:
I think the landing page is really well done - that kind of format can be bad if the content isn't well written but each sentence made me want to read the next so I think you've pulled it off. I do think some visuals to reinforce your message might help (e.g. a graph of willingness to pay vs location, etc.).
My understanding of this is that it's going to sit amongst your pricing code and run experiments to change the price dynamically and return the best result after some time - is that correct? If so, I do wonder why no one has pulled this off particularly well as a SaaS before? (or have they?). I believe that Profitwell for example makes their revenue from consulting.
The other thing is that if my understanding above is correct, what stops the user from just cancelling once you've optimised their pricing and you lose capturing a lot of the value you've created for them (again, you revenue model may be completely different, I don't know).
I would also question whether this kind of thing isn't ultimately solved by the old "talk to you users" thing and understanding what they would pay from that strategy rather than software (at least with purchasing power parity though software + independent research does seem more likely to work since it's hard to talk to people from all over the world).
Ultimately this is the kind of thing I would give a try once I have some moderate amount of revenue and I feel that I've at least figured out who my customers are and can then optimise from there.
Pretty cool anyway, hope it succeeds and I'm in a position to try it out in a few months.
Thank you. It certainly is challenging but it's mostly working.
You have to use the auto layout feature within Figma to have a consistent output for now (I intend on relaxing this requirement, but auto layout makes things much easier). But you don't need to do anything external to Figma. There's a plugin (currently in review) and you will be able to manage everything from there.
Will come back to this post to give you feedback later.