| ▲ | YesNotice(infinitedigits.co) |
| 130 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 49 comments |
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| ▲ | gregsadetsky 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is 5% off topic, but just to say that Zack (the person behind this service + Infinite Digits) is (also) a super prolific (and extremely kind) developer/maker/hacker with a ton of exquisite software+hardware musical projects: - check out https://infinitedigits.co/docs/products/zeptocore/ if you're into sample-y, jungle/breakcore-y audio mangling/button mashing - and his https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/collidertracker/ terminal-based tracker Signed, an honorary member of the Zack Fan Club :-) haha |
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| ▲ | notatoad 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >How it works # YesNotice works by periodically checking the status of the item you care about okay, but how does it work? how does it check the status of things? |
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| ▲ | TheDong 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are two general options: 1. Scrape a google search for the question, feed that into OpenAI with the additional prompt of "Given the above information, is the answer to <user prompt> yes or no". Or give the AI a "google" tool and just ask it directly. 2. Same thing, except instead of OpenAI feed it into underpaid people in the global south (i.e. amazon mechanical turk). These people then probably feed it into ChatGPT anyway. Given there's a free tier, and when you use it it produces very ai-sounding text, I think it's pretty clearly 1. Also, if you enter a clever enough question, you can get the system prompt, but this is left as an exercise to the reader (this one's somewhat tricky, you have to make an injection that goes through two layers). | |
| ▲ | JimDabell 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I built something very similar a few months back and I just asked an LLM. You could optionally specify a CSS selector for HTML or JMESPath for JSON to narrow things down, but it would default to feeding the entire textual content to the LLM and just asking it the question with a yes or no response. | |
| ▲ | jotaen 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Their “About” site is (just slightly) more insightful: > Using AI-powered web search, we continuously monitor your questions and send you an email notification when the status flips to what you're waiting for. via https://yesnotice.com/about/ Without knowing whether they actually do it that way, if you give ChatGPT the following prompt, it returns `No.`: > Please answer the following question with just “yes” or “no”: Is the new iPhone 18 available for pre-order? | |
| ▲ | alwa 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | …and how frequently? | | | |
| ▲ | esafak 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You just curl the site or use its API, if it has one? Then you store the result in a database and see if its value has flipped. I don't get the question; this is trivial. | | |
| ▲ | scubbo 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Additionally, YesNotice will provide an estimated availability timeline for the question, so you can have some information about when to expect the change. How is that trivial in the general case? | | |
| ▲ | esafak 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Let's see how accurate those predictions are before worrying about the how. |
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| ▲ | DougN7 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And how exactly does it call any arbitrary API or know which site to curl for any arbitrary question a user might ask? Your answer doesn’t contemplate the how this actually works. | | | |
| ▲ | zahlman 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > YesNotice works by periodically checking the status of the item you care about (e.g., product stock, website availability, domain status) and comparing it to the previous status. When it detects a change from no to yes, it sends you a notification via email. How does it generalize arbitrary indications of status into yes/no? How does it know how to use arbitrary APIs to obtain arbitrary indications of status? | |
| ▲ | dylanowen 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's if the website you're querying is a static html file but the web is much more dynamic and varied. Some of the questions I have: does yesnotice execute js, does it handle an answer appearing on a different page, does it handle ambiguous launch language. In essence: how does it work? | |
| ▲ | notatoad 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | what site does it check? what api does it call? one of the examples is to see if a new coffee shop is opened in town. what's the API to call for that? | | |
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| ▲ | meindnoch 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | From a database! |
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| ▲ | hamasho 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This post is not related to this, but as a fellow live coding fun, it makes me happy to find a new terminal based instrument like this found in the website ( https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/collidertracker/ ). Especially there is another hot post about Strudel right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478 ). |
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| ▲ | deanebarker 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Take a look at these posts -- https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know/ https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/notify-one-time/ I'm glad someone finally did something here. I wish you every success. |
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| ▲ | qrv3w 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks! Had pretty much the same thought process as you, so I made this little tool (yesnotice) to do pretty much that. Its not perfect, but I've been using it a lot and its working great for me (mostly to get notified when certain new packages are updated and TV shows come out...then I don't have to remember so many things!) |
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| ▲ | samteeeee 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I made a free product out of one of the use cases for YesNotice "Get notified when a new movie or TV show is released". It's here: https://www.premierepal.com/ |
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| ▲ | tyilo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I got a 403 Forbidden error when trying to register a user. |
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| ▲ | victorbuilds 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The "yes/no" framing is a nice constraint that makes this actually useful vs generic "page changed" monitors. Do you rate-limit the checks to avoid hammering sources? |
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| ▲ | thehamkercat 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is amazing, beat me to it, I had this in my TODO since last year. I wanted to call it "Remind-me-when" for example: "remind me when Weapons movie has less than 7 days to be released" or "remind me when the site something.com goes down" |
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| ▲ | cyberclimb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is it possible to track a given URL without that URL becoming public knowledge as a posted question for anyone to see? |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Pretty cool. I suspect it's an AI implementation. Reminds me of this classic: http://isabevigodadead.com |
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| ▲ | denysvitali 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can't wait for the collab with https://www.istheinternetonfire.com/ |
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| ▲ | xnx 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Good enhancement to existing services like Website Watcher, changedetection, etc. |
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| ▲ | VikingCoder 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Very much reminded of "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez, where the system is watching the news to find out when people were dead, etc. |
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| ▲ | CGMthrowaway 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's IFTTT all over again! |
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| ▲ | martypitt 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool idea. Just a heads-up that the Demo link at the bottom of the page leads to a 403. |
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| ▲ | felipelalli 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice idea. |
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| ▲ | knowaveragejoe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The sign up link leads to a 403, just fyi. |
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| ▲ | cyanydeez 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ok, I'll only accept this use of AI if YesNotice can figure out how much their computer cycles cost to do whatever it's doing. |
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| ▲ | mempko 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is really cool! I always believed one valuable use case for AI is to take unstructured data and structure it. I am building ThetaEdge (https://thetaedge.ai) which is in Beta now. We built a similar feature but specific to investing and markets. You get notified when certain market things you care about happen like 'Alert me when nvidia releases a new product' or 'tell me when a 20 delta call for Apple is more than $1'. The challenge of building something like this is consistency and accuracy which is important in finance. Awesome to see a clean focused product like YesNotice with a very clear utility. |
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| ▲ | IncreasePosts 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I agree about the importance of that use case, but how do you confirm that the AI doesn't modify the data in some unwarranted manner during the process? | | |
| ▲ | mempko 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Great question! Don't use AI to process the data, especially when a computer can do the work :-). AI is good at taking unstructured data and structuring it. Computers are great at computing. Here is an example of Google's AI failing https://www.google.com/search?q=is+2026+next+year Google screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/FOT4aDF ChatGPT also fails: https://imgur.com/a/mb3rRgZ and here is the ThetaEdge result: https://imgur.com/a/ZAZZgiR | | |
| ▲ | IncreasePosts 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sure - I guess what I was asking is how to make sure everything is okay in the unstructured -> structured conversion. "My name is John and I'm 40 years old" -> {name:"John", age:40} How can you gain confidence that the AI doesn't spit out {name:"John", age:41} The only thing I do currently is have a massive test suite to gain some statistical confidence it works, but I worry about situations like a person having a rare unicode character in their name (not to even speak of people intentionally trying to trick the system) |
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| ▲ | marysminefnuf 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Love this idea |
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| ▲ | bbstats 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| hug of death? |
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| ▲ | amarant 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Neat! Now I don't have to remember to Google for new vaccine updates every week! |
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| ▲ | meindnoch 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >Notifications are sent via email or SMS, depending on your preference. This would be a perfect use case for RSS. |
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