Key Features
- check out https://infinitedigits.co/docs/products/pikocore/ if you're into sample-y, jungle/breakcore-y audio mangling/button mashing
- and his https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/collidertracker/ terminal-based tracker
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Thanks for making the internet a more positive (and springy!) space!
-Zack
okay, but how does it work? how does it check the status of things?
How is that trivial in the general case?
one of the examples is to see if a new coffee shop is opened in town. what's the API to call for that?
You could use an LLM to pick the right API.
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?
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"
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 hard, you have to make an injection that goes through two layers).
> We check free accounts daily and premium accounts up to every 15 minutes.
> 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?
This would be a perfect use case for RSS.
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.
I am building a product called ThetaEdge (https://thetaedge.ai) which is in Beta now. We built a similar feature but it's specific to investing and markets. 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 with building something like this is consistency and accuracy.
Awesome to see a clean focused product like YesNotice with a very clear utility.
This example of AI fail is doing the rounds
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+2026+next+year
image of when I did this search https://imgur.com/a/FOT4aDF
"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)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aboxwithrocksinit/test-buc...
This is always "No", because the latest book can never be the next book.
> Has my girlfriend agreed to marry me?
It says:
> Answer: No
> Estimated availability: Unknown
I am heartbroken.
except instead of being the protocol and a client, it's just a SaaS that scrapes for you and sends SMS / email. Darn.
Reminds me of this classic: http://isabevigodadead.com
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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