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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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Post by redhale »

My immediate hesitance with a tool like this (which sounds awesome) is that I don't actually trust tools like Claude Code unless I have them running in a git directory where I can see exactly what changed, and easily revert when needed.

Do y'all have a solution for this here? Some kind of safety layer of some kind to easily review and optionally revert actions the agent has taken across my entire file system?

The search part of this is cool, but if the write side is solved, shut up and take my money.

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

#22

Post by aabhay »

redhale wrote: post #21

My immediate hesitance with a tool like this (which sounds awesome) is that I don't actually trust tools like Claude Code unless I have them running in a git directory where I can see exactly what changed, and easily revert when needed. Do y'all have a solution for this here? Some kind of safety layer of some kind to easily review and optionally revert actions the agent has taken across my entire file system? The sea…

We're adding that feature to be able to manually approve agentic actions! You can already revert things, as our file system is fully version controlled.

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

#23

Post by aabhay »

cyrusradfar wrote: post #20

Cool idea. Maybe I'm too old, but after I read the post I thought -- oh this is an "AI-first Quicksilver" -- who remembers that plugin for Mac? I don't think they stayed relevant enough

I remember Quicksilver! That's not what we do though. You're thinking of stuff like Alfred, Spotlight, Raycast, etc.

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

#24

Post by 101008 »

The landing makes focus on multimedia, but I am writing a non fiction book, and most of my sources are links, PDFs, docs with notes, etc. Would it work in that case as well? My ideal solution should be able to oganize my files and be able to ask questions about the contents.

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

#25

Post by aabhay »

101008 wrote: post #24

The landing makes focus on multimedia, but I am writing a non fiction book, and most of my sources are links, PDFs, docs with notes, etc. Would it work in that case as well? My ideal solution should be able to oganize my files and be able to ask questions about the contents.

Yes it does! We support web links, PDFs, documents (with annotations!).

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

#26

Post by articulatepang »

Won’t this only work when connected to the internet? So I can’t use it on a flight.

Or if I work in finance, or healthcare, or law, or government, or a hardware design company, I don’t want my files leaving my network. Those are very important use cases, much more important than searching my personal laptop. I want this for WORK, not my little photo collection or notes or whatever.

This is a great use case for modern LLM/embedding models but gotta be local to be actually useful in the places where it’s most needed.

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

#27

Post by Fraaaank »

dang wrote: post #7
Fraaaank wrote: post #6

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

Isn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0 (linked above) that? Here's what we always tell founders about demo videos: "What works well for HN is raw and direct, with zero production values. Skip any introductions and jump straight into showing your product doing what it does best. Voiceover is good, but no logos or music!"

My bad, totally missed the link in the text post. I clicked on 'watch video' on the Poly website

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

#28

Post by milst »

Very interested in the idea of an AI being able to interact with my filesystem.

we experimented with something like this: https://local-note-taker.vercel.app/chat

repo in case you'd rather run it locally: https://github.com/tambo-ai/local-note-taker

Curious to compare how our two ideas are built differently, feel free to reach out (email in my profile)

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

#29

Post by aabhay »

articulatepang wrote: post #26

Won’t this only work when connected to the internet? So I can’t use it on a flight. Or if I work in finance, or healthcare, or law, or government, or a hardware design company, I don’t want my files leaving my network. Those are very important use cases, much more important than searching my personal laptop. I want this for WORK, not my little photo collection or notes or whatever. This is a great use case for modern…

The file browsing is fully offline supported (as in the files get synced locally). We also allow text search offline, but smart search is not yet offline (we need to embed the search prompt), however, we would like to support fully offline use soon!
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