Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

littlebird.ai

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 33 posts

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#14

Post by winterbloom »

grena1re wrote: post #4

Hi all, I'm Alex, one of the founders at Littlebird. AMA!

Does your company actually look at resumes? you post in HN but nothing ever goes through. I have a feeling that your recruitment team is not doing their job properly (or being super selective)

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#15

Post by divmain »

Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me, which thoroughly dominates any upside to using your product. It's a non-starter.

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#16

Post by grena1re »

divmain wrote: post #15

Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me, which thoroughly dominates any upside to u…

We will for sure, but the issue is that without local LLMs, there's no way to offer a truly fully local version. And the local LLMs are dumb. So basically, you would still need to trust the LLM providers. Totally understand that this is a deal breaker for some people, but for many users, the theoretical risk is worth it. We do regular security audits, encrypt in transit and at rest, pen tests, etc.

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#17

Post by reasonmethis »

divmain wrote: post #15

Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me, which thoroughly dominates any upside to u…

Hey, I'm Dmitriy from Littlebird. For your use case, would you want the underlying LLM to be local as well, so that your data doesn't get sent to the "big dog" LLM providers? It's an important consideration because it wouldn't be nearly as smart then - though I totally understand if that's the only way it could work for you.

We are SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant btw.

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#18

Post by throwaway-blaze »

grena1re wrote: post #16
divmain wrote: post #15

Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me, which thoroughly dominates any upside to u…

We will for sure, but the issue is that without local LLMs, there's no way to offer a truly fully local version. And the local LLMs are dumb. So basically, you would still need to trust the LLM providers. Totally understand that this is a deal breaker for some people, but for many users, the theoretical risk is worth it. We do regular security audits, encrypt in transit and at rest, pen tests, etc.

Um, dismissing the tech as "the local LLMs are dumb" seems shortsighted. I can run some pretty impressive models on my local Mac, but it has >64gb of ram and an M3 Max.

Given the privacy benefit I wouldn't dismiss them so fast. I'd suggest picking one or two that your prompts will work well with and treating it as "we let you run with local models too, if you have a computer capable of that." This will (a) quiet the people who complain about everything and (b) get more people to try the cloud model knowing they could move to a local model for real usage.

Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI

#19

Post by timwis »

reasonmethis wrote: post #17
divmain wrote: post #15

Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me, which thoroughly dominates any upside to u…

Hey, I'm Dmitriy from Littlebird. For your use case, would you want the underlying LLM to be local as well, so that your data doesn't get sent to the "big dog" LLM providers? It's an important consideration because it wouldn't be nearly as smart then - though I totally understand if that's the only way it could work for you. We are SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant btw.

I'm not the OP but I came here to voice the same concern. I would love to use something like this. I also signed up for rewind.ai and Limitless and pre-ordered the pendant. But ultimately I cancelled it out of privacy concerns.

I wonder if it could be local storage and you could provide your own Open Router endpoint? That way it could be a local model or your own deployment of GPT/Claude in Azure/Bedrock/Vertex etc where you can control retention policies etc.

Basically, I want to know that you guys don't have access to view my stuff. I get that that limits your ability to improve the product and support issues, but when I'm sending everything it really starts to matter. Just thought I'd share what held me back from immediately signing up despite really wanting to use a product like this!

Post reply on HN