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Show HN: Simulate "Synthetic" Focus Groups with LLMs

https://simfocusgroup.com/
1•NaNXVibeCoder•4h ago
I built (mix of vibecoding and vibe-rage-debugging) an app for simulating focus groups using LLMs. A focus group is a small group of ppl hired to evaluate some product/concept/etc. The premise is that LLMs are, with the right prompting, good enough at imitating the probability distribution of opinions of common demographics if prompted to imitate them. Of course this depends a lot on the prompting -- if you prompt superficially the next-token predictor will return an equally generic answer.

You can feed in a website, define a study group and questions, and receive feedback. Currently in early beta.

Behind the scenes it uses a series of prompts to first figure out what your submitted content is about to prefill a suggested focus group and questions. If ticked, it will try creating "variations" of your content using an image model to be compared. Then the original and variations are shown to loads of instances of the openAI LLM with various prompts such as "You're a <demographic> study group participant evaluating <thing> so answer question <q>". Let me know if you have any suggestions for features etc and whether you find the concept interesting or would do something differently tech-wise. Thx!

Catch Burnout Before It Starts: A One-Page Early-Warning Checklist

https://ledgeroflife.blog/catch-burnout-before-it-starts-a-one-page-early-warning-checklist/
1•blitzpoet•17s ago•0 comments

A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS

https://www.webkit.org/blog/17101/a-guide-to-scroll-driven-animations-with-just-css/
1•gsky•1m ago•0 comments

Counting jigsaw puzzle pieces with OpenCV

https://www.kleemans.ch/counting-jigsaw-puzzle-pieces
1•furkansahin•5m ago•0 comments

Building Personalized Micro Agents

https://blog.meain.io/2025/building-personalized-micro-agents/
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How commonly is PIP deployed for non performance reasons in FANGs

2•quietthrow•7m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Build of Go Toolset Telemetry: Helping Us Build Better Tools

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/microsoft-go-telemetry/
1•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

I made PyChunks, a tool for Python beginners with everything embedded

https://github.com/noammhod/PyChunks
1•noamm•14m ago•1 comments

Digital Bullshit Detector – Pigi.app

https://pigi.app/
1•2Cache•15m ago•0 comments

Proton Planning Monero Payments

https://twitter.com/davidgpeterson/status/1941500514803548636
1•coldblues•17m ago•0 comments

Niche Communities or a General One?

1•Beerus017•18m ago•0 comments

Titan 2 is a modern BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and two screens

https://www.theverge.com/news/691938/titan-2-smartphone-keyboard-blackberry-5g-android-15
1•walterbell•19m ago•0 comments

Tiny Shield – Monitor all traffic from your Mac

https://tinyshield.proxyman.com
1•plurby•22m ago•0 comments

Framework Switch

https://community.frame.work/t/sskkis-joycon-rail-cards/71450
1•plurby•23m ago•0 comments

WakeMinder – Mac reminders that appear when you open your laptop

https://wakeminder.com/
1•omar_szn•23m ago•1 comments

Open-Source E2EE Sync Privacy-First Offline PKM with Bidirectional Links

https://b3log.org/siyuan/en/
1•walterbell•23m ago•0 comments

Cheap mini PCs have gotten good

https://world.hey.com/dhh/cheap-mini-pcs-have-gotten-really-good-c70ab40f
1•tosh•25m ago•0 comments

AfriNIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism

https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-the-harsh-lessons-of-african-multistakeholderism-8e8378797101
2•Reventlov•27m ago•0 comments

Roadmap to AdonisJS 7

https://adonisjs.com/blog/roadmap-to-adonisjs-7
1•romainlanz•29m ago•0 comments

Visual Effect – Interactive Effect Playground

https://effect.kitlangton.com
2•bezbac•30m ago•0 comments

PwnedKeys – all the keys that should never be used again

https://pwnedkeys.com/
1•pabs3•33m ago•0 comments

ScrapeGraphAI Release Week

https://scrapegraphai.com
1•vinci00•34m ago•1 comments

Conceptualization is all you need

1•vayllon•41m ago•0 comments

Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/dont-forget-what-silicon-valley-tried
4•jamesblonde•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Assistant for Ableton Live 12

https://ableton-ai-agent.vercel.app
1•rsaraceni•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free tool to make screenshots look way better

https://www.shotcanvas.com/
1•stjernberg•48m ago•0 comments

OpenTelemetry from 0 to 100

https://nais.io/blog/posts/otel-from-0-to-100/
1•elza_1111•48m ago•0 comments

Framework Laptop 12 Review

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/07/framework-laptop-12-review-fun-flexible-and-repairable
2•andsoitis•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nexus – A One-Page JSON Visualizer with Interactive Graphs

https://github.com/emin-ozata/nexus
1•eminozata•49m ago•0 comments

My Travel Development Setup

https://konradreiche.com/blog/my-travel-development-setup/
2•ingve•57m ago•0 comments

Greggs advert slapped over defibrillator in Gorleston

https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/25289186.greggs-advert-slapped-defibrillator-gorleston/
3•austinallegro•1h ago•0 comments