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Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by parthianshotgun »

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…

Have you ever read Ted Chiang's 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling'? What if forgetting is a part of forgiveness or healing? Eidetic memory seems fraught to me, but I'd love to know your thoughts on this.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by dsiroker »

spullara wrote: post #17
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.

Before you record someone you should always ask for their consent. This is especially important with Rewind, since the recording happens on your Mac and other meeting participants won't know they are being recorded unless you inform them.

How should I ask for consent?

Here is how we recommend you ask for consent:

"This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I use Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."

In addition to saying this verbally, we recommend including this message in your calendar invites so people have a chance to think about it ahead of time. Feel free to link to this help center article as well.

What are the laws around consent?

The laws pertaining to recording other people depend on where the people being recorded live.

While the laws differ from state to state, we believe privacy is so important that we recommend users of our product hold themselves accountable to a much higher standard than the bare legal minimum. We believe all users of our product should proactively seek consent from everyone they record even if they are not legally obligated to do so. Not only is this is the safest approach legally, but it is also just the right thing to do.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by onnnon »

nunez wrote: post #13
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…

I don't see the connection between creating a journal/diary and this app.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by lkbm »

dsiroker wrote: post #16
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…

These are valuable and important, and perhaps the best that can be done, but this also reminds me of when Google Glass was first announced. People did not like the idea that the person you're talking to could be surreptitiously recording or photographing you. Similarly, people hate that Facebook may have a face recognition fingerprint for your face even if you don't use Facebook.

Recording meetings for later searching still feels weird in a similar sense. Even if I trust the way my data is handled when I use it, it's a violation of privacy norms in a way that feel "creepy" to be making a persistent record of things other people said to me in what is traditionally an ephemeral context.

(That said, this sounds like something I've occasionally wanted for a long time.)

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by codingdave »

dsiroker wrote: post #22
spullara wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, recording someone without telling them in California is illegal so be careful with this when you are talking to people.

Before you record someone you should always ask for their consent. This is especially important with Rewind, since the recording happens on your Mac and other meeting participants won't know they are being recorded unless you inform them. How should I ask for consent? Here is how we recommend you ask for consent: "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with y…

So you are asking people to give mini marketing pitches for your product in the course of normal conversation and include the pitch in emails invites?

You aren't asking people to be conscious of privacy, you are asking people to be a free marketing platform.

Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life

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Post by shubhamjain »

Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them.

From the docs:

> Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1]

Yeah, we only "store locally", but hey, that doesn't stop us from sending it to a third party service for transcription. I was already uncomfortable with the idea of being voice recorded. Reading between the lines of how it works doesn't inspire a ton of confidence.

[1]: https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/6526620-recording-meeting...

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