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Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and h…

That’s fair. I was offering Buzee for free! The inertia is real. As much as they appreciated the speed, it seemed like they didn’t really want to find their files faster.

Did you download from the link on this page? [1] That should download the v0.1.1 build. So long as you install it with admin privileges and ignore the security warnings, it shouldn…

You make my day. Thank you. This sort of validation makes my inner child really happy. :)

Used the operating system’s native OCR APIs for parsing text from PDFs and images. Does that count? :)

Yes. That is the standard business model to follow. But I never reached that point because of my novice programming skills and the fact that this was a hobby project. My intention …

The only product I have seen do well is Glean [1] but they are B2B so not exactly consumer-grade software. I think the everyday person works better with the separation of concerns …

Haha very cute! You can see Buzo’s mugshot here: https://buzo.tools/ :D

Getting everything to work reliably. This was my first time handling a software with so many moving parts. If I could get the search query to work, I would break the date range fil…

I feel I gave up early too but oh well, I sat on it for too long. I hope somebody else can make something good out of it! Once I had a more reliable foundation, I planned on adding…

Makes sense! I’d presume they’re referring to boozy (like booze/liquor) but not sure if that’d qualify as “colorful slang”

Yeah, it’s weird on Windows. I paid Apple $99/year for code signing on Mac but at least it worked seamlessly. On Windows it seemed like the code signing process varies depending on…

Omg hi Simon! Big fan. Your work on datasette and generally using SQLite for solving problems was one of my main motivations behind Buzee. Thank you for all your work and for docum…

I tried Parallels with like three different accounts :) But I also found that a native Windows machine throws a lot more errors than a VM. For example, having a sqlite3.dll ended u…

I named Buzee after my pet dog. I guess I am unaware of what you’re referring to, English isn’t my native language after all. Hope it isn’t a slur or something!

Funny you say that. Legal and invoice were actually the two avenues I actually explored! There definitely is an opportunity there but I found that there is an intense status quo to…

Thanks! Search wasn’t the most difficult problem here. I found SQLite’s FTS5 to be quite powerful. Later combined with Tantivy, I think it’s a superb combination to tackle pretty m…

I just read “I like Buzee’s UX” and giggled. Thank you for the kind words, stranger!

You are 100% correct. I focused on Mac because my personal machine is a MacBook :) That was part of my failure. I wanted to solve a problem for Windows but didn't have a decent Win…

Of course, Alfred and Everything are more mature products. My motivation was: (1) Build something on my own (2) Build a dedicated full-text search only product I was trying to scra…

Honestly, the story isn't that interesting. When I started I barely new JavaScript. Over the course of development, I learned Rust and TypeScript, and grappled with so many edge-ca…

That's pretty cool! What you're building is kind of what my vision with Buzee was. Wishing you good luck!

Haha you are right! The releases were actually hosted on a separate public repository to handle automatic app updates since the source code was private. I have updated the readme w…

Hi, I am sure Buzee could be of great help to you! It certainly helps me out with my work which is quite similar to your scenario. For Windows, you should try this link [1]. Unfort…

Spotlight didn’t quite work for me for file search. But yes, there is not much value add here other than a GUI. The main motivation was that Windows Search is often slow and terrib…