Supabase Clippy
Dev tools
documentation assistant
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
8 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Design: 3 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea and clever name
From 2 comments
Very cool! I'm looking forward to "smart search bars" (coined by me) being common place where you can search for things and it returns both knowledge-base/web pages that are…
nemo44x on HNhow did you ever come up with such a clever name!
say_it_as_it_is on HN
Good demo of pgvector use
From 1 comment
This is so great! Thank you, and Greg if you read this well done on an excellent video and project
Yenrabbit on HN
Objections
Keyboard shortcut cmd+/ does not work on non-US layouts or without cmd key
From 4 comments
Feedback: Please add a button. This seems super useful, but unfortunately I can't test it. I'm on a non US Layout and can't use the shortcut "cmd + /". On my keyboard a "/" is…
moooo99 on HN> Want to try it out? It's a hidden feature while in MVP - visit supabase.com/docs and hit cmd + / to pull up the search box (sorry mobile users). My keyboard does not have a cmd…
counttheforks on HNUnfortunately this is not a possible key combination in many non-US keyboard layouts.
moooo99 on HNMy keyboard does noy have dedicated / . Both modifiers ctrl/cmd + shift + 7(/) does not work either.
CSDude on HN
Not available on mobile
From 1 comment
No mobile for now - that's our artificial way of 50/50 rate limiting this before all our credits run out
kiwicopple on HN
Concern about use of OpenAI and privacy
From 1 comment
It's a great idea, but I'm really concerned about the use of OpenAI in this Have you tried implementing the same functionality using open-source models?
ushakov on HN
Prompt injection and quality control risks
From 1 comment
awesome velocity - i could have sworn this was another of your famous Launch Weeks but its just a regular week for you now lol there's been a lot of these bots coming out, and…
swyx on HN
Requests
Add a navbar button instead of keyboard shortcut
From 3 comments
Feedback: Please add a button. This seems super useful, but unfortunately I can't test it. I'm on a non US Layout and can't use the shortcut "cmd + /". On my keyboard a "/" is…
moooo99 on HN> Want to try it out? It's a hidden feature while in MVP - visit supabase.com/docs and hit cmd + / to pull up the search box (sorry mobile users). My keyboard does not have a cmd…
counttheforks on HNMy keyboard does noy have dedicated / . Both modifiers ctrl/cmd + shift + 7(/) does not work either.
CSDude on HN
Add a Stop Generating button
From 1 comment
Hey, if you can, please add a Stop Generating button. Sometimes I see what I'm looking for and just want it to stop.
gl-prod on HN
Support open-source models
From 1 comment
It's a great idea, but I'm really concerned about the use of OpenAI in this Have you tried implementing the same functionality using open-source models?
ushakov on HN
Schema or migration scaffolding
From 1 comment
How far are we from Clippy being able to scaffold out migrations or table schema? "Clippy, create a table called "users" with the fields: first name, last name, bio."
FinalBriefing on HN
Questions
Estimated running cost
From 1 comment
I'm curious what is the estimated cost for running this?
Raed667 on HN
Whether answers use up-to-date docs given model training cutoff
From 1 comment
AFAIK, ChatGPT's training data is until 2021, can it answer questions based on the latest Supabase documents?
burmecia on HN
Alternatives named
Corpora (askcorpora.com) for PDF Q&A
From 1 comment
That's so interesting. I'm sure other companies will integrate GPT on their developer documentations. We have built similar tool called Corpora https://askcorpora.com It allows…
alokjnv10 on HN
Copilot
From 1 comment
Everyone realizes this works for the same reason that Copilot works, right? And that this was trained on the same GPL code? Is this not an excellent example of an argument that…
williamcotton on HN