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Show HN: Build a website in 30 seconds using GPT-3

by rookhack on 10/6/22, 8:22 PM with 20 comments

• by 3vidence on 10/7/22, 4:43 AM

  Just tried it out I am quite impressed with the demo. I tried a non-given buisness prompt "massage parlor" and it did generate results. Although the provided pictures were a bit strange and the initial description of the business said it closed in 2019. But at the footer of the page it said it started in 2020.

  I think this is definitely a step up from "lorem ipsum" default text. The generated text was rather formulaic though. For the "services" section every paragraph started with "is a type of massage that".

• by russdpale on 10/8/22, 7:42 PM

  Very awesome, this is great for small businesses and such that don't want to take the time to make something simple and essentially is read only.

  Really good job so far. I can think of all kinds of ideas for this.

  I have a lot of questions, particularly about how and if you can guide the models to keep pace with design advancements, or is there worry that this would just reinforce the models to make the same design? Maybe you could just have an update button that would users could press every few years to keep up appearances.

  I'd also love if these models could be trained to help weed out bad development practices, particularly around the attention economy.

  It also makes me think.. like what happens when everything we see online is generated by AI? Every website, comment, video, image, everything and everyone will be in their own little silo.

• by ad404b8a372f2b9 on 10/10/22, 10:46 AM

  Are you worried at all about being an engine for outputting large amounts of low quality content?

  I can see the appeal of having a fast cookie-cutter design, and generated prompts to instruct the user on the type of content they should include. But looking at the demo, you generate fake testimonials, and loads of generic information-less paragraphs. This raises some ethical questions if you let that go out as is.

  Do you have features to incite the users to overwrite those?

• by sprkwd on 10/7/22, 11:52 AM

  Am quietly impressed.

  My record label helped put punk on the map in the southwest of England! Shame it closed in 2012, according to the blurb. I really thought we were going places.

• by rany_ on 10/7/22, 6:23 AM

  How well does this website work with open source GPT-3 alternatives? Did you give those a try?

• by Grimburger on 10/7/22, 8:07 AM

  Impressed with the results I got. You only allow US citizens to sign up?

• by minifiedjs on 10/8/22, 1:31 PM

  Would this cost a lot to run the servers (I’ve heard that the AI is resouce intensive). Then is it worth the money?

• by cercatrova on 10/7/22, 7:22 AM

  Debuild.co basically joined YC on this premise when GPT-3 launched. Not sure how far along they are though.

• by yoyopa on 10/8/22, 8:19 AM

  i love all this "AI" shite and cliche web design because it has a distinct visual signature that helps me quickly identify low quality garbage.

• by ebellity on 10/8/22, 5:55 PM

  Pretty cool !