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Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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bangaladore wrote: post #5

Nitpick: Cursor for Files makes approximately zero sense to me given what I see here. Feedback: Supporting an enterprise air gapped solution of this clearly has huge value. It really doesn't matter where the data is stored if the indexing / embedding is happening on your infrastructure. Enterprises with compliance requirements are quite likely the types of clients looking for ways to save time searching through petab…

I think the phrase is apt, actually, but it's not perfect:

1. We have an embedded agent that can read, edit, organize, and take actions on your files. This means it can read almost any media type, which is why it's "cursor for files" even though "isn't _cursor_, cursor for files?". In other words, Cursor is "Poly for text" :)

2. We provide you with an "IDE", I.e. a file browser. However, unlike Cursor we actually built our engine rather than relying on an existing open source one like VS Code

Lastly, agree about the enterprise solution. All in due time for sure!

Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Post by aabhay »

theoldgreybeard wrote: post #10

While it seems like a cool enough product conceptually, in practice there is absolutely zero chance I'm putting my files in your cloud to be garbelled up by AI and paying you for the privilege. Also, allowing an agent to download arbitrary files from the internet is extremely alarming. nope nope nope nope NOPE Only way I would ever use something like this is with a local/self-host model that I run myself on my own ha…

Great user name for sure!

Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Post by aabhay »

prasoonds wrote: post #3

This is really cool! I suck at organizing my filesystem and I've lost track of how many times I had to find _that ONE_ PDF which I KNOW I have but cannot find! This would have solved that many times over. However, at least for my use-case, this is a very infrequent problem. So, a monthly subscription and the security risk wouldn't be worth it. Though I'm certain there are people who work with files all day and for th…

Agree. One thing that we see our users doing more of is "NotebookLM style tasks" where they just drop in a bunch of files or ask the agent to download stuff and then start using the agent to do things. Summarize, create notes, answer questions, etc. We believe that an increasing amount of work with "files" will be stuff like this, and having a file system that can search all your files to do these things seemed useful enough for us to build!

Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Post by aabhay »

Fraaaank wrote: post #6

I'd rather see a demo instead of a highly edited video with split second shots of the product.

The video I provided was a raw, uncut, video. The editing is done by Screen Studio, which only does the "zoom" effect. But there's no studio magic there. I didn't speed anything up or cut out buggy bits or even do a retake!

Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Post by aabhay »

akersten wrote: post #2

Hooking up the Internet to my filesystem is scary. What security measures are in place to ensure a compromise of your infrastructure doesn't compromise mine?

I'm not certain what exact scenario you are referring to. Do you mean if someone is able to install malware on our backend system will that malware get sent to you?

Is there something in particular that we are vulnerable to that doesn't also affect Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, etc.?

Re: Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

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Post by aabhay »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #17

Can you say more about how Polyembed-v1 handles video files? Does it handle the audio or just the video? What do you do about videos longer than a couple of minutes?

It handles both video frames and audio-in-video. So if you wanted, you could search for something that was said in a video and it'll find you the exact segment of it!

We don't use transcription or any post processing. We simply embed the file. Our embedding has an additional inner dimension to support long duration content. So it's [N x D] where D is the embed dimension and N is an internal dimension that varies on the content.

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