zero chance im trusting any cloud or third party SaaS
if this doesn't run fully local its a no go for enterprise let alone ordinary users
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#12This company harvested user data and abused it by the https://skerritt.blog/screenpipe-ai-company-will-harvest-you...
I am not surprised. YC hasn't been the same since Gary Tan. I don't want to be associated with it or launch anything through it.
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#13This company harvested user data and abused it by the https://skerritt.blog/screenpipe-ai-company-will-harvest-you...
I don't know anything about this company and what it may or may not have done, but to be clear, the link just says that when you star their github repo, they add your email address to their marketing list.
I think that sucks, but it's certainly not what I thought of when I read your one-liner (which implies that they harvest and abuse your actual recorded data).
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#14This sounds so ripe for abuse and so terrifying if it were that I don't even want to experiment with it. Sorry.
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#16This company harvested user data and abused it by the https://skerritt.blog/screenpipe-ai-company-will-harvest-you...
Hey sorry about that, it's been a while ago, we didn't know that emails on Github were not allowed to be used (since I received many emails from startups that way). We apologized to our users and never did this again
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#17zero chance im trusting any cloud or third party SaaS if this doesn't run fully local its a no go for enterprise let alone ordinary users
It's local, and for enterprise it runs on premise
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#18This company harvested user data and abused it by the https://skerritt.blog/screenpipe-ai-company-will-harvest-you...
You're offended by that?
Have you ever founded a company and tried to find paying customers?
You'd probably be offended if I sent you a cute 90's era AOL CD with our software on it.
OP: I wouldn't be offended if you emailed me in this way. Ignore the naysayers. This is perfectly kosher.
In fact, I'm going to check out your company in depth just because of this pearl clutching.
Keep building and don't let naysayers tear you down over something not even slightly evil. (Venomous attacks are more evil than this, frankly.)
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#19This sounds so ripe for abuse and so terrifying if it were that I don't even want to experiment with it. Sorry.
Fair concern but the risk is similar to any tool you give deep access to like Claude, Codex, or even your operating system
Ultimately, it’s up to you what you run and trust
Screenpipe is open source and local-first
You can inspect it and keep your data on-device, with encryption at rest
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Can you expand on that? Would love to know more specifically