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Re: Ask HN: Roast My Startup

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Post by vbond »

hayst4ck wrote: post #15

Some unorganized thoughts: When I look at it, it sounds like it is "text based siri with a memory." When siri has memory, siri must do it through a specific app interface that is often not always directly clear how to query. Siri does not have memory, the reminders app has memory. I'm not sure you have any secret sauce that apple can't copy in a couple weeks. I am not clear what value it has over siri to make it wort…

WOW, just wow.

Thank you hayst4ck, this is just amazing!

Definitely a lot to think about.

Re: Ask HN: Roast My Startup

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Post by muzani »

I'm highly skeptical because there's been lots of apps that promise an external memory - Asana, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian. Most fall short. But the gap between Obsidian falling short and what I'd like it to do isn't worth $99 per year.

There's two productivity tools I find magical:

1. ChatGPT wired into my command prompt.

2. Dash: https://kapeli.com/dash

Both are fairly cheap, but I guess what I need is speed of access over quantity of storage. It's where most notekeeping apps fail, especially Asana, Notion, Evernote.

Notably both of them work well because I don't have to fill them in. Both dash and ChatGPT are prefilled. To remember a birthday or contact details from a business card, I'd have to put that in. Have you tried uploading business cards to Evernote? I paid for that feature but it still wasn't worth the trouble.

Re: Ask HN: Roast My Startup

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Post by vbond »

muzani wrote: post #22

I'm highly skeptical because there's been lots of apps that promise an external memory - Asana, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian. Most fall short. But the gap between Obsidian falling short and what I'd like it to do isn't worth $99 per year. There's two productivity tools I find magical: 1. ChatGPT wired into my command prompt. 2. Dash: https://kapeli.com/dash Both are fairly cheap, but I guess what I need is speed of acc…

I haven't considered uploading business cards to Evernote.

Perhaps because the fastest way is just to add them to the calendar (talking about speed of access).

The idea behind storing notes in a messenger is that it is a simple mental shortcut for "fire and forget" approach to note-taking.

The AI is already pretty good so that it can automatically decide what to do with it.

Re: Ask HN: Roast My Startup

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Post by rabidonrails »

vbond wrote: post #9
rabidonrails wrote: post #4

You need a clearer pitch. When I read your pitch lines I don't understand what you're talking about (maybe a little tongue-in-cheek) >>Never forget anything important again - well ok, this sounds good. So this is something that will improve my memory? Get unlimited external memory with instant recall - external memory? so I guess what you told me above wasn't what I thought. So now there's this external thing where I…

Thanks rabidonrails, really good feedback! How about this: Store everything you need to remember in one place. Get instant answers about any of it. Works in your messenger app.

How about some version of "Your AI companion that remembers everything and answers your questions via Messenger.
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