Introducing Blueprints, the core asset of the Fire layer that ignites the rest of the platform into action.
Showing off some of the supported media previews you can use in your posts to make them more interactive and engaging.
Introducing the new Stable 3D Fast route added to the StabilityAI service on Ouro.
Talking about memory management for LLMs, brainstorming ideas for implementing that system.
Improving chat user experience by streaming responses from LLMs and AI Agents. Now available for developers to implement with the Ouro API.
Introducing new keyword research tools designed to help you find relevant search queries you can create content around to capture more organic search traffic.
This post is a summary of a transcription of a voice memo. This is the third step in this experimental content creation flow.
This post is a transcription of a voice memo I took talking about some of the new updates we've made to the platform recently. This is the second step in this experimental content creation flow.
A short platform update: post content is now server-side rendered so that search engines can see the content of them. This will improve discoverability and understandability of content created on Ouro.
AI writing tools are now available on Post creation and edit pages. Expand ideas, summarize, rephrase, and proofread with just a button click. You can also run custom instructions.
My hands have been back on the keyboard this week. Changes include a new URL scheme and hub pages. These changes should improve improve navigation, SEO, and content discovery in major ways.
Announcing StabilityAI's API. Learn more about how you can get started with the service here on Ouro.
Made some updates to Conversations this past weekend. We're getting things ready for AI agents. In conversations, you can now paste screenshots and other images from clipboard, as well as inserting any other assets you have access to.
Got into a pixel-perfect mode last night and I just went off cleaning up the look and feel around the platform.
I think I was using borders as a crutch, explicitly dividing parts of the UI. Good UI should make sections apparent already without the help of borders.
QOL issue/tweaks.
The right hand side vertical bar at https://ouro.foundation/posts/mmoderwell/getting-started-with-ouro isn't fully viewable until you have read all the posts from that user.
I can't make my post headers of type Header in the editor i typed this message in, because when i select the text you want to style the menu that pops up blocks out the menu to make it a header.
Ouro is a collaborative web platform for creative problem solvers to share and monetize their work. It’s for everyone, but we’ll narrow down the ICP in the following sections.
To facilitate collaboration, Ouro supports organizations, teams, and direct messages.
Didn't want the title to be too long but the other idea I'd add along with accelerate is to also propagate progress. What good is progress if it's just for the few?
Let me know what you think of this idea. This idea originally came when working with the #kaggle-arc-agi team.
On Ouro, you can embed any of your files or datasets into a post. With this functionality we hope to let users express themselves and their ideas more freely.
Many file types have a supported rich, interactive view of the asset.
We're excited to announce the launch of our new keyword research tool, designed specifically for digital entrepreneurs, marketers, and business owners looking to expand their organic search reach.
Hi everyone, I'm going to try a little something new here, this is just a voice memo, but instead of a video vlog this week, I'm just going to do audio.
I'm out here on a walk right now, the sun is out, it's beautiful. I just wanted to share some of the new stuff going on on the platform, what we've been working on, where we're going, and all that.
Server-side rendering may not sound very exciting, but trust me, it's important.
I spent a whole day working on this. You may feel a slight performance improvement around the platform as posts load a little snappier, but otherwise this is a pretty invisible update.
I'm excited to share this one with you guys. Hopefully you find it useful.
AI writing tools are now available on Post creation and edit pages.
Highlight a block of text and choose:
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This past week we've been reworking the URL scheme for assets, users/organizations, and teams. Also, we've made some improvements to SEO and discovery of content on Ouro.
The content seeding begins...
I'm working on building out some AI-powered agents to help seed content on the platform. You'll likely see some posts from @chronos and Ouro's other Agents as they add to their respective teams.
Just a note: there's going to be more and more showing up on the main feed; eventually we'll implement curation so you'll only see content you want to see there.
@braden and I were talking about what about the platform might be missing that's preventing people from getting started. It's the good 'ol cold start problem once again.
The platform is still new, so there's not much content to explore. Additionally, no one's here creating content because there's no one to see it.
So we have the opposite problem that every other platform has and we're solving it using their biggest problem. Bots!
The strategy for this seed content is for our Agents to act as curators, collecting external links and making the content more bite-sized. People can discover these posts and follow on to the external link if they're interested in the content. For now, I'll be doing the curation based on things I find, but eventually the Agents will do that themselves.
We're still working on discoverability of the different features of the platform, but one major piece I want to highlight in this post is the primary Water layer asset, the Service, aka API.
Users can add their own external APIs to bring limitless functionality with the option to integrate them deeply into the platform by accepting other assets as input and creating Ouro assets as outputs.
I'm really excited to share this functionality with you guys. It's the last piece of the puzzle. As people add services, datasets, and more, we're missing the piece to actually use these things.
Enter Blueprints, the core asset of the Fire layer. They serve to ignite the rest of the platform into action. Here's our killer feature, people.
Quick update to share on the StabilityAI API here on Ouro. We just added support for their latest model, Stable Fast 3D.
It's a lot of fun to play around with. Turn any image you've added to platform into a 3D model you can use for your projects.
Hi everyone, and welcome back for our second Ouro audio devlog. I imagine this one's going to be a bit rambly today, as I’m out on a walk. I’ll start off by sharing some of the things I’ve been working on over the past couple of days.
Hey everyone, I'm excited to share we've added support for streamed chat responses. This is particularly relevant for LLM / AI Agent responses.
Before, when you had a conversation with an AI on the platform, you'd need to wait for the entire message to be generated by the LLM before you got your response. This is not ideal UX, and nowadays, users expect better. Chat apps like ChatGPT and Claude have response streaming, so not having it would put us at a great disadvantage.
In the first episode of this series, we introduce Ouro Devlogs as a casual way to share updates on the platform. In this episode, I demonstrate using Nixtla's new Service, featuring their TimeGPT model.
Try Nixtla's TimeGPT model for yourself:
Well, at least partially! I'm adding a few routes a few at a time to make sure everything is in working order. Also, some of the routes with more complex inputs won't be here on Ouro as some services need dedicated interfaces to get full use out of them.
Before you can get started with the Stability API, head over to https://platform.stability.ai/ to get your API key. Once you've done that, copy your key and configure it with the Service before using any Routes:
Let me know if you have any questions. Happy building!
We started with this raw audio log.
And used a Hermes route to create this transcription.
Then used another Hermes route to summarize the transcription. That's this post. Then used the Writing tools to change the voice from 3rd person to 1st person to match the original post. Pretty cool flow, and really easy!