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Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by dsiroker »

shubhamjain wrote: post #44
dsiroker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason we wrote that article is to be 100% transparent about what happens to your data. No reading between the lines necessary. The only time this cloud-based transcription is used is during a Zoom meeting, which is already in the cloud. When you join a new Zoom Meeting we prompt you to ask if you want to record & transcribe the audio. You can choose to do this selectively for each meeting, or not record & transc…

It would help to tweak the marketing a bit around recording "everything you say." Is the mic always on? Is it always recording in the background? Is it just for Zoom/Video Conf meetings? Because the first impression I get is that of a scary Black Mirror episode.

You are right, it's a bit too aspirational right now. The "everything you say" part is just for Zoom meetings right now. Once we implement local transcription with OpenAI Whisper then I think it makes sense to expand beyond meetings to things like YouTube videos, Podcasts, Audiobooks, or anything else you might want to search by "what you've heard".

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by jsf01 »

The problem I have with this is that meetings and discussions—exactly the kind of thing you would want to recall—involve more parties than just yourself. But rewind appears designed to record everything in the background and be left on, not enabled manually when you want it. That means in every conversation you have you’re either going to need to get consent to record (which is super weird for 90% of quick chats) or just do it without consent which is creepy and probably illegal in a lot of places.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by edm0nd »

spullara wrote: post #17
dsiroker wrote: post #4

I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I’m back here to launch my second one: Rewind. Rewind is the search engine for your life. Check it out: https://www.rewind.ai It’s a macOS app that enables you to find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard. We’re also announcing that we’ve raised $10m at a $75m valuation led by An…

FYI, recording someone without telling them in California is illegal so be careful with this when you are talking to people.

Everything normal and fun is illegal in California.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by dsiroker »

DeathArrow wrote: post #48

Why Mac only?

The key enabling technology that makes Rewind possible is Apple Silicon [0]. We utilize virtually every part of the System on a Chip (SoC) so that running Rewind doesn’t tax system resources (like CPU and memory) while it is recording. It feels virtually imperceptible.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by allanrbo »

shubhamjain wrote: post #44
dsiroker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason we wrote that article is to be 100% transparent about what happens to your data. No reading between the lines necessary. The only time this cloud-based transcription is used is during a Zoom meeting, which is already in the cloud. When you join a new Zoom Meeting we prompt you to ask if you want to record & transcribe the audio. You can choose to do this selectively for each meeting, or not record & transc…

It would help to tweak the marketing a bit around recording "everything you say." Is the mic always on? Is it always recording in the background? Is it just for Zoom/Video Conf meetings? Because the first impression I get is that of a scary Black Mirror episode.

Yea my first impression when reading the landing page was also that this is exactly a Black Mirror episode: "The Entire History of You": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by fragmede »

dsiroker wrote: post #4

I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I’m back here to launch my second one: Rewind. Rewind is the search engine for your life. Check it out: https://www.rewind.ai It’s a macOS app that enables you to find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard. We’re also announcing that we’ve raised $10m at a $75m valuation led by An…

Personally/imho/since you asked/nitpicks - point 2 and 5 are overly technical. For 2, it's a really great thing that the data compresses down, but my local machine has enough space that I don't think about local storage because I've not run out of space. (yet, on my M1 macbook air.) I'd lead with "you can store years of recordings on the smallest hard drive apple sells". Maybe mention how awesome your compression is as enabling technology.

For 5, start with "It feels virtually imperceptible." rather than end with that, and don't define/use SoC. Maybe something like "Unleashes Apple Silicon: Thanks to the advancements with Apple Silicon, the overhead of Rewind is virtually imperceptible by utilizing every part of the chip including the Media Engine."

Really intrigued by the product and hope I can try it soon!

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by iamthirsty »

dsiroker wrote: post #16
flyingsky wrote: post #10

Looks interesting but also seems kinda creepy

Totally understand how it might feel that way initially. Rewind is built privacy first. Unlike other cloud-based products, all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac. It's not accessible to others (or to us as employees). Not only that, but we have the following features focused on privacy: 1. Full control: users can pause and delete recordings at any time 2. Exclude apps: users can exclude specific apps…

> all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac

Actors can easily access data on a local machine, with the necessary tools and desire. Still seems like something that could be accessed and abused.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by [deleted] »

photochemsyn wrote: post #20

I think a better title would include before . The problem with relying too much on things like photos to recall your memories of previous events is that typically the photos overwrite the actual memories, i.e. you lose your built-in record of sensory impressions of events. Used sparingly, it's probably okay, but working on improving your built-in memory is also a good idea (i.e. the whole memory palace approach). Thi…

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