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It's definitely not the first, that's kind of a weird and also fundamentally hard to prove claim.

Also, I'm still not entirely sure why this is any better than other solutions. The landing page has a remarkable lack of information. At face value it sounds like spyware, if I wanted to assume malintent.

Originally, Remind was supposed to be called Recall AI, a project I have been working on since last December. However, last week I was watching a video about the new Copilot+ laptops and noticed they featured the same functionality with the same name. So, I decided to open-source the project, rename it to Remind, and publish the landing page as quickly as possible. The reason I believe Remind will be better than other solutions is that it will be completely local, free, and private for users. I provided a demo, a link to the GitHub repository with all the code, and some information on how I implemented the solution. Since I launched it quickly, the site is obviously rushed, but you can check the public code—it is not a spyware at all. Although I'm just at the beginning, it already looks quite promising compared to existing paid and non-private solutions.

This still doesn’t address the claim that ‘first’ is wrong, and that sort of hyperbole, if wrong, is quite off-putting. If this is really ‘quite promising compared to existing…solutions’, there’s no need for inflated claims.

Unfortunately, you're missing the prior art of writing things down, which predates your "invention" by something like 5000 years.

Not to sound rude, but isn't this exactly what Rewind.ai does since a couple of years?

Yes, it's similar to RewindAI. I was inspired by them :) I mentioned this and listed them as inspirations on Product Hunt. However, I'm aiming to create a local ecosystem, and this is just the beginning. I have a lot of ideas in mind (but little time), so I'm progressing day by day.

But despite being inspired by them yours is still the first?

Wow, it must have been pretty intense feelings seeing Microsoft reveal exactly the same thing that you've been working on for months. Would you like to share what you experienced and how you coped with it?

Honestly, I don't even know if it's a coincidence or done on purpose. Initially, I'm just a simple developer who shared my bugs on Reddit and other platforms to find solutions to my problems. When I saw that Microsoft had the same functionality and the same name, my first thought was that there was no point in continuing this project because I would never be able to compete with them. Originally, I wanted to launch on June 27th, and I talked about this situation on Reddit. That's when I received a lot of feedback, which really warmed my heart. So, I decided to open-source my project, create a landing page in two days, and now I'm gradually building the project and making it publicly available for everyone.

There shouldn't be much coping considering that Rewind has been a thing for a long time and is already a giant.

I also work on a similar app (AI-less, though) and my initial though was, nice, more eyes on this sort of apps, I might get some additional sales as a result.

Does this record audio the whole time or does it start logging when someone starts talking?

My own tests with whisper have average transcription accuracy at best, I mostly want to just not lose important detail because certain people are allergic to writing things down.

I’ve been using an (increasingly complex) DIY solution, tried Rewind last night but it seems more aimed at search than navigating time (I use mine partially for time tracking).

Langchain is so scuffed I'm always skeptical about products that claim to be using it in a useful way.

First?!

"one of the first ai powered, self hosted" seems more accurate

Technically Recall (Windows) and Rewind (Mac) are also both self-hosted and don't run on the cloud, but this one is open-source, I think that would be a bigger selling point.

The company behind Rewind has pivoted, maybe bc of the Microsoft announcement; they aren’t going to improve the product. While it was always locally-stored, at least some of the inference against your data goes through their APIs and so self-hosted-ish?

This is a godsend for people who work with media projects.

Exactly why do I need this technology in my life?

Imagine one day you did something on your laptop two months ago and you want to find out where you did it. If you don't remember, it will do it for you. If you want a detailed daily summary of your activities, it will do that for you. If you want to summarize a meeting or your university lectures in detail, it will do that for you. People were afraid of this technology because it wasn't private, and that's completely understandable. Now, imagine having the same technology but completely local. All your data would remain confidential and encrypted, and you could ask it any question about your digital activity.

I use an app like this that I built myself. It's great to recap yesterdays work for a standup, or the previous month for a retro. Those are my most regular usages of it, but every now and then I am able to use it to recall something I definitely forgot about ("who was that guy in the meeting" or "which slack channel was that again").

Why did you clone Linear’s website?

I never copied their website, I didn't even know them, I used a Next and ReactJS template and modified the components! :)

This site looks like so many other software sites these days. It’s a trend.

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