Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life • Hacker News Board

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by mritchie712 » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

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…

Dan! Can't find the tweet (bc I didn't have rewind yet), but Patrick Collison described this exact product in a tweet once. Amazing work. There's a mic drop moment in the demo when you're able to click on the link shared in the zoom, totally sold me.

If you could bump me on the invite list (mike@luabase.com), would truly appreciate it. I'm a good beta user, promise.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by thundergolfer » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

This looks awesome. The Entire History of You is my favorite Black Mirror episode and yet I still want this personal search functionality and much more.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by nunez » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

onnnon wrote: post #8

IMO, this only accelerates the problem of memory loss. The phenomenon is known as "digital dementia" or "digital amnesia". If you want to strengthen your memory, use less technology to remember things for you. If you already have memory problems, and need aid, I can see this being useful.

Strong disagree.

I've started keeping a mood journal after a mood swing caused a very negative incident last year. It's been absolutely indispensable.

I could have used "less tech" and kept it in notebooks, but (a) handwriting is time-consuming, (b) handwriting a lot is fatiguing, and (c) I could lose the notebooks (like I lost the diary I kept when I was younger or the notes I exchanged with my first girlfriend that went into detail about what I did that day, both of which I wish I had back).

Using an app to keep this journal has made it really easy to correlate my mood to external events. Since my mood is strongly correlated to the amount of sleep I get, I can't wait to stitch my sleep and calorie consumption data from Health with my mood journal entries.

Ironically, the journal has helped me remember things I would have long forgotten!

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by cmoog » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

Not to be a FOSS-thumping loser, but an a16z backed company that records anything and everything on your screen sounds like a recipe for disaster. May as well set the countdown for the bait-and-switch.

Looks like a cool demo with neat tech though. Maybe someone will reimplement as OSS?

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by skyfaller » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

gardenfelder wrote: post #5

This seems pretty cool. There's an OSS platform [1] which is nowhere near as powerful, but on the same path [1] https://memex.garden/

It appears to no longer be open source: https://community.memex.garden/t/is-memex-going-closed-sourc...

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by dsiroker » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

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 they don’t want recorded (e.g. Signal or 1Password)

3. Incognito: by default, we don't record Chrome Incognito or Safari private browsing windows

We have a long roadmap of things we have planned to further our commitment to privacy. Anything in particular you'd love to see us implement that might make you feel more comfortable?

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by spullara » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by jabthedang » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

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…

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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by dsiroker » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

mritchie712 wrote: post #11

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…

Dan! Can't find the tweet (bc I didn't have rewind yet), but Patrick Collison described this exact product in a tweet once. Amazing work. There's a mic drop moment in the demo when you're able to click on the link shared in the zoom, totally sold me. If you could bump me on the invite list (mike@luabase.com), would truly appreciate it. I'm a good beta user, promise.

> Patrick Collison described this exact product in a tweet once

Yes! Here's the tweet you are referring to: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/953011978217205760

And his more recent reaction to our product: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1587450179069743104

> Amazing work. There's a mic drop moment in the demo when you're able to click on the link shared in the zoom, totally sold me.

Thank you! Flattered. :)

> If you could bump me on the invite list

Absolutely! I'll move you up the wait list.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by photochemsyn » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

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).

This kind of thing could be a great aid for early-stage Alzheimer's patients, however.

As far as being used for mass surveillance and social control by authoritarian states bent on managing their captive populations in some dystopian social-credit-scored plantation-labor system, well, I imagine the NSA's DARPA-sourced 'Total Information Awareness" programs are well ahead of anything seen in public by now.