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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

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Post by gabev »

_andrei_ wrote: post #56
rex123 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes! In the dashboard (https://dashboard.zenfetch.com) you should see a settings icon on the bottom left. There you can disable the zenfetch button from appearing on the page.

Then you can click on the zenfetch extension popup to still save a tab :D

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

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Post by rex123 »

_andrei_ wrote: post #55
rex123 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I actually use Readwise as well! For a workaround I imported all the URLs from Readwise into Zenfetch but a full Readwise integration is on the roadmap.

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

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Post by gabev »

thehamkercat wrote: post #66

What about privacy? Why is no one here talking about privacy?

Thanks for bringing this up, as privacy is one of (if not THE) highest priorities for us.

Happy to answer any questions you have, here are some preliminary notes that might be helpful:

1. We don't sell your data. Our business model is subscription based and we have DPAs with model providers to ensure none of that data is used for training 2. All data you explicitly save to zenfetch is encrypted in transit and at rest.

In the future, we'd like to move to a local-first platform where the data storage and processing takes place on your own machine

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

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Post by jzig »

Hi Gabe, I used to work with you when you interned at APL on BSP! I'm glad to see you are doing great things and wish you the best of luck. This is an interesting product that I think has a lot of promise as a "pensieve" a la Harry Potter. Let me know when you start hiring :)

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

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Post by moneywoes »

gabev wrote: post #44
chb wrote: post #42

Perhaps I’m not understanding how this stores data, but how do I retrieve source material after I give it to the app? Eg. Let’s say I adopt Zenfetch, and start using it as the sole place where I keep bookmarks. Then, something happens such that I want to retrieve that original, principal, bookmark data. How do I go about retrieving/exporting that?

We will enable an export data option soon where you can download a list of the bookmarks you saved to Zenfetch. Our goal is not to become a vendor lock-in play. Instead, Zenfetch is a layer on top of your knowledge base goaled on helping you activate information that you forgot about. If you're referring to being able to revisit bookmarks: from the dashboard, you can click on any of the articles to see the original a…

just a list of urls or the actual content?

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

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Post by moneywoes »

giovannibonetti wrote: post #32

This reminds of Rewind [1]. I'm not affiliated to them in anyway, but I have been using their product for a few months and finding it quite useful. Their approach of screenshotting everything and saving it locally is more convenient for me, at least. [1] https://www.rewind.ai/

doesn’t that run locally as well?

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

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Post by moneywoes »

breadchris wrote: post #7

I have been building something similar [1] with the goal to make it easy to save and share things you find. I will not use SaaS for saving content anymore as I find myself wanting to build larger compositions of work and dealing with APIs just isn't it. Maybe the SaaS works today, but you will always end up wanting a plaintext, offline-first experience. [1] https://github.com/justshare-io/justshare

does this have ml to search data?

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

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Post by gabev »

moneywoes wrote: post #76
gabev wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will enable an export data option soon where you can download a list of the bookmarks you saved to Zenfetch. Our goal is not to become a vendor lock-in play. Instead, Zenfetch is a layer on top of your knowledge base goaled on helping you activate information that you forgot about. If you're referring to being able to revisit bookmarks: from the dashboard, you can click on any of the articles to see the original a…

just a list of urls or the actual content?

Zenfetch will capture the actual content of those URLs (assuming they still exist and are accessible from your browser)
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