Show HN Today: Top Developer Projects Showcase for 2024-09-28
Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-09-28. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today’s Content
Today’s highlights feature two innovative projects. The first is a platform for creating short videos using AI, designed to streamline content creation. The second is an AI-powered Chrome extension called Car Buddy, which simplifies the car shopping process by providing real-time fair value assessments and personalized insights from an extensive database, aiming to enhance the overall experience of used car buyers. Both projects are garnering attention for their practical applications and potential improvements. Feedback is encouraged to further develop these tools.
1. Show HN: Create Short Videos with AI
URL: https://aivideo.to/
Author: ImranK
Description:
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2. Show HN: Craigslist Car Shopping Chrome Extension with KBB and AI Insights
URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/carbuddy-talk-to-cars-wit/aglpplbhdlccaekjbajdgfbjlbgmeage
Author: matteolee72
Description: During my exchange in Berkeley, my friends and I decided to share a few cars amongst ourselves. Car shopping was fun at first, until you realize how tedious it is to have to constantly look up the fair valuation with a price advisor like Kelley Blue Books (KBB) for every single car (easily >30% of the time spent shopping).
We were also novices when it came to cars and didn’t know what to look out for. As a result, after less than a month of use, one of our car’s engines completely stopped while I was on the way home from school on the highway. Thankfully there were no accidents or injuries, but it was a harrowing experience nonetheless and the administrative headaches that followed were a huge pain.
These experiences and pains is what led me to create Car Buddy, an AI-powered chrome extension that gives you the fair value of the car in-page on the car listing itself, but also lets you “talk to the car”. It gives you insights and warnings of common issues faced and acts as a personalized chatbot where you can ask questions about the specific car, not just based on its model/make but its mileage, condition and more. It is contextualized with data from the specific car listing fed to an LLM, Gemini 1.5. I hope this tool will help make the experience of used car shopping better than it was for me.
There are some improvements I hope to make, and perhaps some bugs I have yet to catch. But I hope you’ll check it out and appreciate any and all feedback and suggestions on how to make it better!
You can read more about it on my site: https://www.matthiaslee.dev/ Github: https://github.com/matteolee72/carbuddy
P.S. searching for summer 2025 internships :) or work I can do as a final year student
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Conclusion
Today’s Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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