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Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

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Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#51

Are there any plans to releasing a desktop app? It would be nice to combine the current use case with a "chat with my documents/pdfs" flavor as well.

Gabe/Akash will tell you their plans I'm sure, but I'm already using it to import PDFs and other documents via the web, so I don't feel the need for anything on the desktop. (A local version would be stupendous for client confidentiality, but I'm not holding my breath for that.)

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#52

Does this have the hallucination problems that LLMs show? Do you offer any protection against that?

For my primary usage, suggesting topics and ideas based on what I've written and read, hallucinations are harmless -- if zenfetch suggests a silly or baseless idea, I just ignore it look at the other nine. So yes, but it doesn't really matter for me.

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

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When will this be available on safari?

It's part of the roadmap, likely releasing in Q2 Is that your browser of choice?

Would love to try this (have a less sophisticated pre-LLM approach running locally), and also use Safari as my main browser. Instant paying customer for Safari, right here.

Also find myself having a pretty severe allergic reaction to websites (Gem is a recent example) roadblocking anything but Chrome (seemingly both because of their web app literally not functioning properly in Safari, and their browser extension being Chrome-only):

a) essentially forcing me to use Chrome for one task, whilst deal with password management in two places, etc., and

b) giving me the nagging worry that the design of the app or extension might contravene some non-technical standard imposed by Apple which Google does not honor…

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#55
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It’s interesting. How do you see this comparing to Pocket, Readwise, and Dewey? I think many Read Later apps will add AI search on top

Great question. A couple ways we see ourselves differentiating: 1. We're adding more and more integrations to become your knowledge assistant over your entire knowledge not just what you read online. This includes your notes, content, emails, etc. 2. We're working on doing more than just search over your knowledge. Many of our users use us to brainstorm topics for new content, compare and contrast perspectives across…

Readwise's Reader is the best annotation tool, they integrated the great highlighting UX of Reflect, but also did a decent job on how you then manage what you highlight. I don't want to click two buttons to ingest an url into both Zenfetch and Readwise, are you planning an integration / open API?

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#56
post #21

It’s interesting. How do you see this comparing to Pocket, Readwise, and Dewey? I think many Read Later apps will add AI search on top

Great question. A couple ways we see ourselves differentiating: 1. We're adding more and more integrations to become your knowledge assistant over your entire knowledge not just what you read online. This includes your notes, content, emails, etc. 2. We're working on doing more than just search over your knowledge. Many of our users use us to brainstorm topics for new content, compare and contrast perspectives across…

And can we opt out of the extension injecting things into pages? I don't want your summary, Kagi does it for me without tainting the page, I don't want to chat about this page, I don't want anything but to send this page into kind of a bookmark place, and you to scrape it and give me a smart search.

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#57
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Very cool! Index my Google Email, Drive, and Calendar. "Find the receipt for that TV I bought from Best Buy 7 years ago."

Thanks! Right now don't have automatic integrations for those yet but we do allow you to individually save emails and docs. Full integrations and sync for Drive and Email coming soon!

So at present one needs to export a Google doc as PDF first? But then it won't have a stable URL, seems to me. Is there a way to upload (e.g. drag and drop -or- using a local folder) a PDF directly?

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#59
This is a super interesting demo.

Adding articles to Zenfetch separately every time, seems quite inconvenient. Allowing users to sync articles from different RSS feeds (say Newsblur), or their reading app libraries (such as Omnivore/Pocket) seems like a good solution to this problem.

Great job!

Re: Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

#60

This is a super interesting demo. Adding articles to Zenfetch separately every time, seems quite inconvenient. Allowing users to sync articles from different RSS feeds (say Newsblur), or their reading app libraries (such as Omnivore/Pocket) seems like a good solution to this problem. Great job!

Thank you! We actually do have a few integration options already including Pocket. We also allow you to import a CSV of URLs. More integrations coming soon!
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