Show HN: I made a tool that helps you find and create better AI prompts faster

15•KevinEdelson•8mo ago

Hi Everyone!!

Our team is made up of passionate AI enthusiasts with backgrounds in marketing, and engineering. We’re united by a shared belief that the future of AI should be collaborative, accessible, and community-driven. With experience building consumer products and scaling platforms, we’re focused on creating a space where anyone from hobbyists to professionals can discover, organize, and share the best AI prompts and workflows. Promptly is built with a community-first mindset, where user contributions, creativity, and learning are at the heart of the experience.

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1oooqooq•8mo ago

you might want to ask an llm to explain the chicken and egg problem to you.

tough•8mo ago

communities and marketplaces are hard.

you have to provide (usually faking) one side of it initially ti be able to attract the other

wmeredith•8mo ago

Honestly, the chicken/egg marketplace problem seems like something LLM would be good at solving. LLMs are fantastic for doing things like generating dummy customer data for testing. How much further of a step is it to not only generate realistic sock puppet accounts and then simulate some activity?

tough•8mo ago

idk we’re right into dead internet theory if you’re a lazy founder and instead of making the realistic sock puppets yourself you just externalize it to llms idk

maybe assistant for some parts but id expect the founder to put some more care initially if they dont want to just fail

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

Its not "easy" but we've been fortunate to have people contributing already!

1oooqooq•8mo ago

i meant: how does one search for a prompt without writing the prompt?

i don't think this idea will produce anything to even get to the point of needing to solve the supply demand paradox.

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

We've already had over 1000 prompts shared and thousands of people using it. It's just as much about discovering cool ways to use AI that other humans share that you may not have thought of.

You can search for prompts related to something and find ones that are valuable without needing to write an effective prompt yourself. example marketers are searching 'marketing' and finding useful prompts contributed by other people.

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

Or if you search logo design you can see how other people are prompting logos and use it to inspire your ideas

nyrulez•8mo ago

Landing page is nice but I am confused why this would be better than generating a prompt from the LLM itself? Latest models are extremely good in taking the seed of a problem and enhancing the prompt to the nth degree until you're satisfied.

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

You can definitely get good prompts from LLMs themselves. A lot of people have told us this gives better variations.

Not the core product though either. The community sourced library helps you discover ideas from humans you may not have thought of yet! We've really been enjoying that aspect.

Crosseye_Jack•8mo ago

Too many requirements just to test it out.

Typed in a simple prompt and selected generate, only to be told I must have an account, ffs, annoying as hell, but fine at least you have “sign in as” options and I’ll just block you if it gets spammy with the emails, but then you insist I upload a profile pic.

Yeah fuck that.

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

Sorry to hear it got you frustrated.

1. We enabled sign up first to be able to easily add to your prompt library without having to create an account after you generate.

2. We'll never send you emails unless you opt in on the complete profile screen

3. considering dropping profile pic requirement. Did that to make it feel more like a community

Crosseye_Jack•8mo ago

If the user uses a social login, offer to use their existing profile pic (but don’t do it automatically esp if that’s public by default), or offer automatic gravatar style avatar.

It’s all well wanting to make a community, I left the site not knowing what the site can do for me because I had no way to test drive what your offering before having to commit, simplify user sign up and if the community is worth it users will customise their account/profile later.

KevinEdelson•8mo ago

Good feedback honestly thanks for sharing

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