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The Best Web to App Converters in 2024

The journey of a solopreneur (by David Journeypreneur) • 19 implied HN points • 18 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Apps Web Platforms Tools
  1. Transitioning from web to app is crucial for businesses to enhance user engagement and expand reach.
  2. Various web-to-app converters offer unique features, pricing, and capabilities for app development.
  3. Leading platforms like WebToApp.app, Convertify, and Appilix provide excellent customer service, quick conversion, and user-friendly interfaces.

Videos, Vibes, and Bard

aidaily • 19 implied HN points • 27 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Apps
  1. Google's Bard AI can now understand YouTube video content before you watch it.
  2. AI is revolutionizing industries, like potentially replacing smartphone apps with advanced capabilities.
  3. Innovative AI technologies are aiding in the battle against ocean pollution by identifying and removing plastic waste.

Decoding Bytedance’s strategy to tap India’s music app market

Turnaround • 296 implied HN points • 20 Jan 20
🕹 Technology Music Streaming Apps Market Strategies
  1. The music streaming industry in India faces challenges like messed up unit economics due to high operating costs, prompting companies like Spotify to create their own content to improve margins.
  2. Companies like Resso are introducing unique features like 'Vibes' to differentiate their music apps and engage users in social activities, adding layers of value generation and potentially solving the issue of new user growth.
  3. To tap into the Indian music app market successfully, companies like Bytedance are relying on user-generated content, social sharing, and potential breakthrough features to monetize through advertising in price-sensitive markets.

The Proto-App Thesis

Three quarks • 41 implied HN points • 07 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Apps Protocols Web Crypto AI
  1. The future of apps might be leaning towards protocols instead of traditional consumer apps.
  2. The emergence of proto-apps, which operate as gateways to various services, blurs the line between apps and protocols.
  3. Horizontalization and integration with protocols are key aspects for the success of modern apps, allowing for user-generated plugins and decentralized functionality.

Speech to Text AI - the best apps, free tools, and APIs

Mythical AI • 19 implied HN points • 10 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Apps Tools APIs Open Source
  1. The post covers the best speech to text apps you can try today like Apple Dictation, Otter.ai, and Descript.
  2. It provides an overview of free open-source speech to text models you can use, like Whisper and Vosk.
  3. The post also lists paid speech to text APIs, such as Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and Google Speech-to-Text, with their pricing and features.

Hey Siri, Meet ChatGPT.

aidaily • 19 implied HN points • 22 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Apps AI Chatbots
  1. Google is enhancing ads and assisting YouTube creators with new AI models.
  2. StableStudio is bringing stability to AI with their Stable Diffusion solution.
  3. OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT app for iOS, offering a conversational AI experience.

Flexibility of plang programming language

Ingig • 3 HN points • 05 May 24
🕹 Technology Programming Apps Syntax Algebra
  1. The Plang programming language offers great flexibility, allowing for simplified and personalized app development without the need for extensive programming.
  2. FoodDiaryApp in Plang demonstrates how job-related tasks can be efficiently accomplished with minimal user input.
  3. Plang allows for the creation of variables within user input, showcasing a unique approach to designing personalized applications with user-defined logic.

Notes: A New Substack Experience

Holodoxa • 19 implied HN points • 12 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Content Sharing Apps
  1. Substack has launched a new 'Substack Notes' feature for short-form content sharing, resembling Twitter but with differences that may limit its virality.
  2. The 'Notes' feature aims to maintain a more elevated discourse level than Twitter, making it unsuitable for current events but ideal for sharing different content types.
  3. Readers can easily join 'Notes' through substack.com/notes or the Substack app, enabling interaction like liking, replying, and sharing content shared by creators.

#34

The Nibble • 12 implied HN points • 19 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Models Apps Messaging Fonts
  1. OpenAI is working on GPT-5 and aims for AGI - artificial general intelligence.
  2. Google introduces new multimodal model Mirasol, surpassing their 80B Flamingo model.
  3. Apple plans to support RCS messages from Android phones next year.

The Age of the App is Over

Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company • 1 HN point • 30 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Apps Smartphones Computing Design
  1. Our smartphones have made us think about life in a specific way with apps, but our digital lives are more complex now.
  2. Our digital spaces should be designed around people, projects, and goals rather than the traditional app-centric model.
  3. We should have the freedom to search across all apps, build our own organizational structures, and express ourselves in our digital spaces.

Apple’s Journal App: A Foray Into AI, the Other Way Round

Big Tech • 0 implied HN points • 13 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Apple Apps API
  1. Apple's Journal app integrates various features like photos, location data, and workouts into journal entries, designed for personal reflection.
  2. The Journal app emphasizes privacy by not allowing Siri access to private journals and lacks social sharing capabilities, focusing more on personal use.
  3. The Journal Suggestions API aims to enhance Siri's capabilities and encourage developers to integrate prompt suggestions into their apps for a more personalized user experience.

An Interview with Matthew Bischoff

Syntopikon • 0 implied HN points • 14 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Design Development Apps Software Quality
  1. Matthew Bischoff started and runs Lickability, a software design & development studio, creating apps for known companies.
  2. Resources to learn software development include online courses, tutorials, and hands-on practice, emphasizing the importance of learning by doing.
  3. Well-designed apps are fast, easy to use, accessible, and solve real problems visibly crafted by a caring team.

GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code

pocoai • 0 implied HN points • 30 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Programming Startups Apps Innovation
  1. GitHub introduced Copilot Chat for developers to ask code-related questions and get real-time guidance.
  2. Giga ML offers a platform for offline deployment of large language models to address privacy concerns and customization.
  3. Shield AI raised $300 million in additional funding, reaching a valuation of $2.8 billion for its autonomous systems technology.

Daily Build

traction • 0 implied HN points • 09 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Newsletter Tools Apps
  1. Newsletter called Daily Build focuses on using latest AI tools for building various things.
  2. Readers can learn to create apps, icons, widgets, spreadsheets, and more through the newsletter.
  3. The author offers quick building projects like a MacOS note-taking app and a weather app using an API.

Ever thought CEOs could pull off a dramatic return? Get ready for the tech comeback of the century with Sam Altman!

pocoai • 0 implied HN points • 22 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Apps Funding Tools
  1. Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI after being dismissed, creating a big wave in the AI community.
  2. Stability AI introduces AI model that can generate videos from images, opening new possibilities in video creation.
  3. AI21 Labs secures $53 million in funding, positioning itself as a major player in the generative AI market.