Does this solve Captcha? Or is this only for people who are trying to maintain browser sessions in very niche use cases. Pen Testing is cool but I feel like the main use case is by allowing agents to work across the web on any website.
Hi Rene from Casco here. I think the post just referenced us as a customer because we use it for pentesting. For us, Prism solves the "browser agents can reliably auth into any website" problem.
Is chat always the best interface for all of these apps? I feel like search is the natural first step, but chat-based search has been around for a while. Feel like an MCP-based version of Glean/Onyx/Moveworks/Dashworks is interesting, but unsure how much better it makes the product. Curious to see why your product is better
Co-founder here. The Airweave interface doesn't discriminate which downstream use case it's applied in. Most current developers don't build it for a chat interface at all actually. Instead they fold it into their agents to give them access to user data. At first sight enterprise search looks quite similar, but instead this is a building block for developers to set up integrations for their internal agent / agent product.
I get that this is a completely new idea so adoption is going to be slow but I'm curious to see how your user interviews and user research is going. I'm a young dev but I'm not even sure if I would use this because the way I've learned to code is already so ingrained into the traditional IDE. Nevertheless, congrats on the launch!
Jake from Haystack here! Thanks for the interest. We've been doing a lot of user interviews with folks on our discord (and folks we know in real life) to understand issues in the onboarding process, find problems that make people churn off, etc with the long-term goal of increasing retention. A lot of our time lately has been spent on fixing these bugs and improving the new-user experience. As a result of this we found that retention on later launches got much better!
Yeah just to add onto what Jake said -- in our user interviews we found that folks, even those who are pretty used to old IDEs, do get the hang of Haystack pretty fast. However, developers are very idiosyncratic, so we frequently get pain points that are real problems but are also highly unique to each developer, which is interesting!
Totally: I couldn't stop thinking about actually generalizing this to a workspace/desktop so I could apply similar principles with multi-windowed Emacs — a window manager that also connects windows ;)
Looks really intriguing, but Emacs is really hard to leave behind.
But I do believe this pattern applies to more things than just IDEs, and might even replace multi-workspace setup. Keep at it and hopefully you are successful and this pattern keeps evolving!
Is there a big enough "Internet access" fund by the UN yet? I feel like AI is a fun word but how can AI be accessed without the original building blocks needed?
> No matter how fast Searle is, he won't be able to come up with a beautiful and original Chinese poem that has the creative spark special to humans.
This analogy seems flawed to me. Searle is in an empty room but LLMs are not. They are constantly learning from user inputs and data is continuously being made more available for LLM ingestion. I still don't think that an LLM will completely replace humans at pure creativity but I don't see why it can't come close. Especially since we're only 2 years in to this craze.
I learned web development while Supabase was the de facto standard for most hobby projects. However, I used Firebase and it seemed pretty easy to use.
I realize that Supabase is supposed to be the open-sourced Firebase, but is that the only reason? While the Firebase UI isn't as "sleek" as Supabase, but I'm not convinced that it's enough to beat a giant like Google. I'm pretty new to the open-source and hobby computing world; would love to see everyone's perspective.
