32" e-ink screen with generated art based on tech headlines
Excited to debut on Product Hunt: Project E Ink's 32" screen transforms Hacker News headlines into AI art every four hours. It's a serene window into the pulse of the tech community on your wall
Some background on the backend for those who are interested. It's built on Laravel and hosted in a Google Cloud Run container and has the following workflow for content aggregation and presentation:
Step 1: Every four hours, our scheduler fetches the top stories from Hacker News.
Step 2: For the top story, we combine the title of the post with a specific prompt ("high-contrast black-and-white digital illustration suitable for an eInk display, digital art, trending on ArtStation") and pass this to a Google Cloud Function. This function interacts with the Stability AI REST API to generate a base64 encoded image. The result? A stunning visual that's perfect for an E Ink display.
Step 3: We then extract the plain text from the story's URL and feed it to the GPT-3.5-turbo-16k model with a system prompt tailored for hacker-centric insights: "Summarize the key points in the following text in max 3 sentences as if you're the author."
Step 4: Both the generated image and the summarized metadata are stored separately in a Cloud Storage Bucket. This allows us not only to display them together on screen.
Let me know if you have any questions or feature requests!
About Hacker News on Your Wall on Product Hunt
“32" e-ink screen with generated art based on tech headlines”
Hacker News on Your Wall launched on Product Hunt on November 30th, 2023 and earned 92 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. Excited to debut on Product Hunt: Project E Ink's 32" screen transforms Hacker News headlines into AI art every four hours. It's a serene window into the pulse of the tech community on your wall
On the analytics side, Hacker News on Your Wall competes within Art and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 486.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hacker News on Your Wall performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hacker News on Your Wall?
Hacker News on Your Wall was hunted by Alexander Klöpping. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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