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Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by louis030195 »

basketbla wrote: post #41

I tried this ~ a week ago, tried one of the suggested automations and it pretty immediately started sending my local api keys to an endpoint… afk right now but can share more when I’m back

Would love to get in a call and help you setup the privacy settings properly, although default are filtering API keys, my cal link if you want:

https://cal.com/team/screenpipe/chat

Feel free to configure local LLM like Ollama, btw

Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by louis030195 »

jgalego wrote: post #43

I built a similar app last week just for fun https://github.com/JGalego/HiddenSteps WIP will definitely check yours out

That's great. I like the comparison to Celonis etc. We're sort of offering a privacy-first alternative to them for Enterprise

Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by louis030195 »

lrvick wrote: post #42

You had my interest until "source available". Especially when you used MIT from the start and changed it later. FOSS hackers like me feel betrayed by moves like that because your product was built on FOSS others created and you are not paying that forward. Also, I for one would never invest a second in tools I cannot freely modify and share the code of under OSI terms. I would strongly suggest a convenience tax model…

Hey I'm sorry that it's not convenient license for you, and you're right that we should have set this license early on instead of switching.

We're open to more feedback, things could change in the future

Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by trollbridge »

louis030195 wrote: post #53
lrvick wrote: post #42

You had my interest until "source available". Especially when you used MIT from the start and changed it later. FOSS hackers like me feel betrayed by moves like that because your product was built on FOSS others created and you are not paying that forward. Also, I for one would never invest a second in tools I cannot freely modify and share the code of under OSI terms. I would strongly suggest a convenience tax model…

Hey I'm sorry that it's not convenient license for you, and you're right that we should have set this license early on instead of switching. We're open to more feedback, things could change in the future

Take a look at Bitwarden (GPL3) and GitLab (MIT). A handful of enterprisey things aren’t included.

Nearly everyone just pays them to run it (myself included - I self host GitLab and still pay them!).

Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by kerv »

I tried this a couple months back. While I found it useful, I also found on my MacBook M1, the fact it was recording all the time, made my CPU melt at high temps all the time. I eventually had to shut it off and stop using because of that.

Curious how it runs on more modern hardware? Is it pretty lightweight these days?

Re: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

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Post by rahulladumor »

Once Screenpipe has months of screen and audio indexed locally, what stops a compromised or over-permissioned agent from querying the whole history through the port 3030 API instead of just the current task's context? Continuous recording solves the memory problem, but it turns "give the agent access to my second brain" into a much bigger blast radius than giving it access to one document. Is there per-query scoping or a time-window restriction on what an agent can pull back, or is authentication the only gate?
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