Krupali Trivedi

Last year in November, I began working on Ode to build a minimal publishing platform for myself without the noise of the modern internet. Over the last few months, Ode has really matured as an open-source self-hosted website generator. Today, at v1.4.5, it launches on Product Hunt.

Are there any topics you wouldn't ask AI for advice on?

We've literally put our entire lives in the hands of artificial intelligence.

From work responsibilities to relationship issues, to advice on philosophy and our bodies.

While building a product, I ve also been trying to run content on social media to bring in more traffic. I experimented with creating AI-generated characters and producing UGC-style videos around them.

During this process, I realized something interesting: there are hundreds of tools that can generate virtual characters and UGC-style videos. But what actually makes a video engaging isn t the tool - it s the authenticity of the person creating the content.