Hey folks!
I wanted to share a side project that I've been working on! It's a little Mac app called Substage. It's a command bar that sits below Finder windows and lets you interact with your files using natural language:
(If you want to give it a try you can download it here!)
During my day job I’m a game developer, I’ve found it super useful for converting videos and images, checking metadata, and more. Although I’m a coder, I consider myself “semi-technical”! I’ll avoid using the command line whenever I can 😅 So although I understand that there’s a lot of power beyond the command line, I can never remember the exact command line arguments for just about anything.
I've fallen in love with the workflow of being able to just select a bunch of files, and tell Substage what I want to do with them - convert them, compress them, introspect them etc. You can also do stuff that doesn’t relate to specific files such as calculations, web requests etc too.
How it works:
1) First, it converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (OpenAI etc)
2) If a command is potentially risky, it’ll ask for confirmation first before running it.
3) After running, it runs the output back through an LLM to summarise it
I’d love to hear any feedback on any aspect of the app, thanks!
I wanted to share a side project that I've been working on! It's a little Mac app called Substage. It's a command bar that sits below Finder windows and lets you interact with your files using natural language:
(If you want to give it a try you can download it here!)
During my day job I’m a game developer, I’ve found it super useful for converting videos and images, checking metadata, and more. Although I’m a coder, I consider myself “semi-technical”! I’ll avoid using the command line whenever I can 😅 So although I understand that there’s a lot of power beyond the command line, I can never remember the exact command line arguments for just about anything.
I've fallen in love with the workflow of being able to just select a bunch of files, and tell Substage what I want to do with them - convert them, compress them, introspect them etc. You can also do stuff that doesn’t relate to specific files such as calculations, web requests etc too.
How it works:
1) First, it converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (OpenAI etc)
2) If a command is potentially risky, it’ll ask for confirmation first before running it.
3) After running, it runs the output back through an LLM to summarise it
I’d love to hear any feedback on any aspect of the app, thanks!
