Completely agree. I’ve been experimenting with embeddings by building Recallify, primarily to help me quickly retrieve obscure things I’ve read online. Even at just 1024 dimensions, it’s impressive how effectively embeddings capture and surface ideas based purely on semantic similarity, rather than exact keyword recall (which I’m pretty terrible at remembering). It’s been a game changer for turning fuzzy mental concepts into actionable insights.
Curious, how come you decided to use a cloud solution instead of hosting this on a home server? I’ve recently bought a mini PC for small projects like this and have been loving being able to host with no cost associated to it. Albeit it’s probably still incredibly cheap to use a IaaS or PaaS but still a barrier to entry for random projects I want to work on a weekend
I'd use a hosted platform for this kind of thing myself, because then there's less for me to have to worry about. I have dozens of little systems running in GitHub Actions right now just to save me from having to maintain a machine with a crontab.
A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc
Home server AI is orders of magnitude more costly than heavily subsidized cloud based ones for this use case unless you run toy models that might hallucinate meetings.
edit: I now realize you're talking about the non-ai related functionality.
Firefox, is next on my list! If there's enough traction I'll be adding mobile support as well to share links to the app straight from your mobile device
I'm a solo indie developer, and I've created a web application, and chrome extension that is used to associate, and save knowledge snippets to your own "memory store". It uses natural language as an interface to retrieve what you've learned in the past with direct connections to the source of truth. There's also a perplexity integration to keep chatting with what you've retrieved.
I like to use it as a smart bookmarking tool that you can save niche utility hacks across reddit, hackernews, Twitter/X, or anywhere across the web. Consolidate all of your saved materials, and bookmarks into one place where you can easily find what you've saved from the past using natural language to search across your knowledge base.
Looks like Scholar Turbo has GPT-4 and Chatpdf is still on the waitlist. But yeah, these chat-with-your-doc webapps are popping up out of the woodwork.
It's not open-source or really polished for consumption. I did get permission to open-source it, but unfortunately didn't have the time to improve it to the point where it would be broadly useful.
Beta testing an iOS app for it if anyone is interested: https://recallify.app/
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