Screenreading is a smart way to solve the integration problem. Every other tool in this space makes you connect each app one by one and you're always waiting for them to support your workflow. This just watches what you watch. Feels obvious in hindsight - cool stuff
Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
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Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
#22Is 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.
Same here. While this looks like it would be beneficial , soon as I saw that all data gets sent to the cloud, It was a blocker.
I have another app that tracks all my usage (time ) at an application. Window level, but I purchased it because it saves locally.
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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…
I'm not dismissing them. I'm saying they're not there yet. As a startup, we have to prioritize. We can't do everything simultaneously, and it would be a substantial engineering effort to have a dual architecture as well as potentially more security holes. And the amount of people that want to run local LLMs is very small. I use local LLMs when I'm on flights, and that is my personal assessment. They are all benchmark-maxed and incapable of reliable tool calling or consistency over meaningfully long conversations.
Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 w…
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#25Hi all, I'm Alex, one of the founders at Littlebird. AMA!
I guess it is AMA, anything except about your current hiring pipeline lol
Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
#26Screenreading is a smart way to solve the integration problem. Every other tool in this space makes you connect each app one by one and you're always waiting for them to support your workflow. This just watches what you watch. Feels obvious in hindsight - cool stuff
I wish Claude cowork could get better at this. I often end up with Claude performing ad hoc tasks involving multiple windows and it’s so slow. It stops and screenshots and thinks and screenshots to confirm after entering one Google sheet cell of data for example. I’m sure it’ll get better over time.
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#27Isn't this a lot like Microsoft's Windows 11 Recall feature that they got a lot of flak for?
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#28The screenreading approach is genuinely clever as a distribution strategy — no integrations to maintain, no OAuth flows to break, works on day one with everything. The hard part isn't the tech though, it's the trust problem. Rewind, Limitless, and now this all hit the same wall: the people most likely to benefit from this (busy professionals with complex workflows) are exactly the people most exposed if something goes wrong. Until there's a credible local-first path, the TAM is going to stay small.
Re: Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI
#29Agree with this direction. Most tools assume structured inputs, but real workflows are messy and visual. Feels like screen understanding is still very underexplored compared to text.
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