Owen Barnes

This is not just another Opus 5.5 demo... 1. Click any phrase to dig deeper. Content generates in ~2 seconds (video not sped up) 2. Press the D key to restyle all content (desktop only) base12.livealy.com Why? I wanted to explore something that's always intrigued me and also shows Livealy's new rendering engine. The Base 12 site uses the new 'popup' mode. You can now choose between generating full pages, or popups. All the demos at Livealy.com have been updated to use the new rendering engine. The only rough looking page now is the homepage! Working on that next :)

Excited to share an early preview of Livealy.com - infinitely clickable personalized websites! - Almost every word and image is clickable - Each click generates a new page, personalized to your location, time of day, language, and the pages you’ve seen before - Pages can include images, YouTube videos, Google Maps, Contact Us forms, and much more Page content comes from a Knowledge Base (KB): - KB is created using Claude or Codex - Can be shared across multiple websites - Insights feature: sends you an email/WhatsApp message when visitors ask for a fact that’s missing Designed for agents: - Turn any dynamic page into a static page for SEO/AEO - Static pages automatically update when KB facts change - Site automatically falls back to static pages if the inference budget is exhausted - Full MCP support throughout Designed for humans: - Control branding and design (press the D key) - Choose the header and footer you want (H and F keys) - Press R to try the experimental renderers Technical stuff: - Uses Gemini Flash Lite (low latency) - Personalized pages generate in ~2 seconds and cost $0.006 each - Speed comes from generating custom JSON, not HTML - Livealy can work with existing websites by including a script I’m now working on: - Finishing up new products: Pitch Decks and Documentation Websites (think infinitely clickable GitBook) - Evaluating GLM 5.3 Flash and cheaper models - Thinking about personalized e-commerce - Most of all: MUCH more work on design, composition and rendering --- A bit of background: I was inspired by the awesome Flipbook at the start of the year. Encouraged by two hackathon wins, I began experimenting with in-browser rendering engines. Livealy is such a fun product to work on - especially the design side. I love knowing this is the ugliest, slowest, and most expensive it will ever be. I’ve built everything solo so far. Now I’d love to work with skilled engineers and investors who see the potential of fully generative interfaces. Please try the live demos at Livealy.com and let me know what you think!

Excited to share what I've been working on over the last month: a new form of social media created for humans, facilitated by agents. clawclub.social Carefully designed for human connection. Bots and slop have been designed out. It's early days, but any brave user of OpenClaw / Hermes / Claude Code can create their own club, or apply to join one of mine today. (You'll find 17 of my AI-savvy friends in the OG Group). ClawClub is hosted by me but you can also run your own server with your own rules. It's open source! Interacting with it today feels a bit like 'MS-DOS meets IRC', but with dynamic UIs like flipbook.page just around the corner, I think API-only AI-native social networks are going to be huge. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Three years ago, back in the GPT 3.5 days, I stood on a volcano in El Salvador and predicted many aspects of "vibe coding" and personal AI agents: youtube.com/watch?v=QU0Ml0ih… This article is about what's comes next:

Agreed! I talk about this in YouAreGoingToBeFine.com

Every AI-generated “About Us” page looks the same. I wanted Poly's to stand out, without having to hand-code every line. I found the sweet spot between AI slop and hand-coding everything: Stick figure animations. Claude knows how to animate stick figures as SVGs surprisingly well! Just keep to 2D - it's still not great with Three.js. It still took weeks to storyboard and tweak by hand, but 100% worth it! poly.site/story

Maybe job websites don’t have to be boring 🙂 Today I’m righting a wrong. When I launched Poly back in February I did what most developers do - I prioritised functionality over design. Poly worked great, but looked… boring af. Not anymore! Poly is now fun to use, as well as useful. Bit of background: Poly is *not* another AI jobs website. It is a whole new approach to work. It uses AI to help you figure out what you want to do with your life, suggests new ideas, and searches for work on your wavelength. Now, I want to be honest. There aren’t many jobs on Poly yet 😅 Until I build more features for businesses next month, there won’t be. But surprisingly, when I speak with users, they don’t just want to find jobs - they want to be able to find and chat with each other. So I’m building fun social features first. Today Poly is ready for all you curious explorers. Take the onboarding quiz, receive a letter from your future self, get inspired by new ideas, and be one of the first to connect with fellow early adopters when the social features launch. Going forward, it will always be free to make a profile on Poly, get advice, and find work. And if you do sign up for the Pro membership (needed to place job or freelancer ads), you’ll lock-in a super early bird price for evermore. But the biggest update is… I’m going to push through the cringe and start posting more often. Inspired by @jackfriks @SherryYanJiang and many more, I’ve realised there’s no point building something cool if nobody knows it exists. Try it now at poly.site

As everything inevitably trends toward Personal AI (watch my 2023 talk about this youtube.com/watch?v=A90xxY60…), I'll be adding support for MCP and other access protocols soon. You can search for jobs today, or post an ad to attract fellow early adopters. There’s an invite only Discord for subscribers.