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Brilliant comment! I like your Inception-style thinking.

Ugh.

1) Posted the ApplyHN on facebook, couple friends got accounts to support me thinking it would help. Accounts with no karma algorithmically don't matter, and they're super easy to spot. Wouldn't spend time on it.

2) I was actually thinking about this kind of tone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500608

3) Also browsing HN I seem to see a negative atmosphere more and more. This is by far the best forum-style community I came across online. Would like to do my part to help keep it that way. :)

I love people pointing out holes in my idea. I think that's what makes HN great.

Sadly, nearly all of my submissions received senseless negative comments that is not feedback on the idea, more like unrelated personal comment.

Maybe there could be a way to filter out the noise.

Ouch.

Posted this on facebook, friends chose to support. It's obvious to everyone that accounts with no karma won't get anyone anywhere. But it's nice to have people rooting for you. Even though they didn't happen to be long time Hacker News users.

Thanks for taking the time to check the accounts of commenters. While you're here, would you mind sharing your feedback about Remember? We'd appreciate it!

Edit: Feel free to reach me out via email for the demo.

Thank you!

Well, this is awkward.

http://remember.ai

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483510

Me too! That's actually how we came up with Remember. We were spending so much time searching for stuff instead of finding :)

Conventional desktop and personal search is limited to keywords or exact dates. Humans are not great at remembering those. We're using IBM's Watson, Imagga and our proprietary algorithms together to understand your files. For example; if you took a note about Pablo Neruda, Remember knows he's a poet and you can simply search for your "notes about poetry". If you're looking for a video from the skiing trip you took, just search for that "skiing video from last winter".

Next step for us is to make Remember train itself. Currently you have to teach the faces of people in your life by manually tagging photos in order to organise by face. We're working on using social media data that's already available. Remember will learn your girlfriend's face out-of-the-box because once you connect to Facebook, it will look for your relationships and use your girlfriend's public photos to learn her face all by itself.

All in all we belive this is "intelligent search".

Great argument, I'm convinced.

Referencing Mt.Gox is a risky move, though :)

I'm working on Remember, it's a personal search engine. It's like Google Photos for every file type. And while it's great for productivity, it will hopefully serve a bigger purpose, maximising human potential.

We're building a product where a researcher can type "all of my research on cancer" and will see their life's work unveil in front of their eyes. All the papers, notes, voice memos, everything. And maybe, just maybe it'll spark an idea they would've otherwise missed.

I think the biggest way I can benefit society as a 21 year old is to make a product that enables people to do so. I know I can't solve wealth inequality and cancer all by myself, but I might be able to empower the people who will. I believe this is the greatest power of software.

The HEPA filter won me over.

Nice idea.

But the whole idea of OpenBazaar is that it's decentralized. I guess you'll be the "center" in this case. If OpenBazaar becomes big enough, I think this will work (and face competition from hundreds of clones) but if it stays the niche it is today, I'd assume this won't work because currently the only people who use it are people who care about the "decentralized" part. The reason for that is everything else at OpenBazaar currently sucks. (Early stage problems)

I could be wildly wrong though, I'm not an expert in this domain.

This is pretty cool. I've seen some startups try to tackle this (sorry don't remember the names) but I haven't seen someone actually make the search standardised.

My recommendation would be to make sure people are not giving custom names to stuff but rather choose from a list. This would make the whole searching thing much easier.

Good luck!

The second strategy is very smart. Problem with that is sometimes you only have a narrow timeframe before some big name brand comes up with your idea and implements it in a really shitty way. So waiting until becoming rich enough is not really a good option.

Although that's "hypothetically" my problem.

Thanks for answering!

Thanks for your answer!

Hahahaha actually I completely agree that for most situations running in stealth is highly disadvantageous. I'd explain why it seems to be the right choice for us but I'll save us our time. We're trying to go public as fast as we can though.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try my chances. I believe in what I'm working on (as everyone else) but it'll kill me if I don't try when I have this narrow window of opportunity.

Sadly -in this context- I am Turkish so I don't qualify for visa-weavers or a TN Visa.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to me!

Wow that sucks for your friend. Even though they managed to make it work, that could give way to some intense power-play. I hope his/her CEO is a great person who wouldn't resort to these. Thank you!

I don't. Yet. But this seems viable thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot, I appreciate your answer!

This is a pretty good idea actually, thanks a lot for taking the time to help me out!