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I am working on Magnetron (https://magnetron.ai)

It is a tool that lets you create whiteboard explainers.

You can prompt it with an idea or upload a document and it will create a video with illustrations and voiceover. All the design and animations are done by using AI apis, you dont need any design skills.

Here is a video explainer of the popular "Attention is all you need" paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_jIK3kqfA

Would love to hear some feedback


I really like the idea! One issue though is that the content seems to "stream" much slower than what's being spoken. The result is that I'm sitting there waiting to see whats going to come, even though its already been said which makes it hard to focus on whatever new information is coming.

The animations / drawings themselves are solid too. I think there's more to play with wrt the dimensions and space of the background. It would be nice to see it zoom in and out for example.


Thanks for the feedback. Will work on making the narration and the animations sync better.


this look super cool but is it hugged to death? i can’t upload the document :(

how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books?

will try it out tomorrow again


> how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books?

yes it should work.

> i can’t upload the document

Could you please drop an email to rahul at magnetron dot ai with the document. I will set things up for you


Shameless plug: I have been working on a tool that lets you create whiteboard explainers.

It also works with research papers.

Here is an explainer of the famous Attention is all you need paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_jIK3kqfA

(You can try it here https://magnetron.ai)


wow! you are almost there, if you made a version that was only drawings, or drawings first titles later, would be awesome, right now titles take too long to write a title, making the filling and meanwhile the pace is lost with the narration, then it makes a cool drawing super fast, so it feels like with a bit of tweaking in the pace you'll be able to get an outstanding result.

Congratulations on this cool idea and results.

Where can I follow the progress or get notified ?


Thanks for the feedback. Working on the making the video and narration sync better.

> Where can I follow the progress or get notified ?

I send out product updates once a week or so. Will keep you posted.


Magnetron.ai – Instantly Create Lead Magnets

I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets. Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet.

You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai)

(This is still WIP)


Text files are amazing, and for when you need to structure data you can use sqlite.

I am using it for https://loadjitsu.io/ Still looking for a good solution to seamlessly sync local sqlite to cloud for backup when the user wants


I am working on Loadjitsu (https://loadjitsu.io) It is a modern alternative to JMeter.

Have spent the last few months working on the current release.

It uses rust and Tauri under the hood.


I am working on app that I wrote initialy in electron, but now have moved away from it.I have perspectives on both good and bad sides of electron

The good parts

Low barrier to entry - if you know javascript you are good to good. No need to learn C++ or Java for building a desktop app.

Truly cross platform - any platforms that chromium supports, electron supports

A very active ecosystem - The community around electron is amazing. I am a big fan of electron.build, things like code signing / auto updates etc are provided out of the box

The not so good parts

IPC hell

Electron has a main process and renderer process and they communicate via events. I found myself swimming in the event soup very often.

Easy to make mistakes

This is more for a note for me or any beginner, but it is easy to write compute heavy code in the renderer and make the ui unresponsive or sluggish. There are many other things like this where it is easy to do things the wrong way.

Security

Electron still has a capable browser which can open any webpage. Mix that with native access and you have a remote code execution vulnerability on your hands.

Bloated binaries

Even the simplest of the electron binaries are large, thats just the nature of electron.

Shameless plug

The app that I am working on is https://loadjitsu.com, I rewrote it using golang, couldnt be happier.


> but now have moved away from it

What did you move to? You mention Go, but which GUI framework? Fyne, Gio UI, bindings for GTK or Qt?


> Low barrier to entry - if you know javascript you are good to good. No need to learn C++ or Java for building a desktop app.

What language would you write the actual app logic in?


Rendering engine and toolkits in C++ but application logic in Python/Ruby/JS with layouts and styling in their own file format. Which describes QT and the Web.


> Electron has a main process and renderer process and they communicate via events. I found myself swimming in the event soup very often.

Ironically, this might also be what you need to write a fast non web based client to your app. By keeping the UI renderer is in a separate process, it could be written in any language or technology at all and the "main" app would be none the wiser.


The most important reason i think is that the web has progressively become good enough for majority of the usecases. However there are still a few areas where good desktop apps are needed.

Shameless plug

I am working on loadjitsu, a desktop app for load testing. https://loadjitsu.com


Hey thanks for reporting this. It is a single go binary Please do the following after you have downloaded 1. chmod +x loadjitsu-mac-.0.0.2 2. ./loadjitsu-mac-0.0.2 server This should start the load testing server


Hey it is single binary You should be able to run it with `./loadjitsu-mac-0.02` might have to do a chmod +x


Tried to fix this. Can you please try again. Thanks for reporting this.


So I got it to work. My issue was Brave Shield (from Brave's browser). Whatever it's blocking on your site prevents the download from working. Turning off the shield allowed me to download the file... when the shield is on, I am still redirected to an AWS S3 error page.


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