I've started some work on a similar project as well on Windows. We should be able to fully query our lives, and we should also be guaranteed that data is ours. I believe this is where data collection should go - your data is yours, and you own it. All the data that Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc collect on us, yet we have such limited access to it. This should be ours, and ours to analyse, search, and gain insights on in any way we wish. This should really be an open-source, community project as well - tools, analytics, apps, all made to help you be a better version of yourself.
Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#82IMO, 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 know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in many popular apps are necessary?
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#83Why Mac only?
The key enabling technology that makes Rewind possible is Apple Silicon [0]. We utilize virtually every part of the System on a Chip (SoC) so that running Rewind doesn’t tax system resources (like CPU and memory) while it is recording. It feels virtually imperceptible. [0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/
I would love a better understanding of this… while I have a an appreciation for metal and the frameworks offered I’m confused how low level you can go when A-Linux had such issues getting going - abs further, the API’s natively available could actually be private? (Which would make sense why it would only work on Mac and not iOS as bypassing the App Store as possible)
Still a damn noble aim, good luck!!
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#84Given that OpenAI Whisper is open source now, and pretty near SOTA, I think creating an audio only open-source version of this shouldn't be difficult. However, I don't know how to easily contextualise the audio - how would I search 'name of the movie I was discussing with Zeynep last week'?
I got OpenAI Whisper running locally on my Mac but the plumbing to make it NOT tax system resources (like CPU) and to get it to work with search isn't trivial. It's on our roadmap.
You might find my inference implementation of Whisper useful [0]. It has a C-style API that allows for easy integration in other projects and you can control how many CPU threads to be used during the processing.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#85Great concept! Love the time machine inspired UI for rewinding. And super-curious about the compression. My guess is it's by saving diffs/incremental changes to the screenshots using Computer Vision.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#86I'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…
Since a16z is involved, it seems you are gunna look for a buyer and then peace out.
What companies do you think would be interested in purchasing Rewind and why?
Why focus on Macs when the majority of the world uses Windows?
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#87I'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…
Hi Dan, curious if you guys might be looking for a product person for the team in the future.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#88Interesting product. I will take a wait and see approach though because my trust of companies pinky promising not to upload my data, especially when dealing with such invasive data as camera and audio and screen recordings, has been wearing thin of late. I've been recording my desktop on Mac, Windows and Linux, recording audio in my office, including transcription of the audio, and multiple camera capture for over a…
Wow - would love to hear more about the hardware/software stack you're using to perform all this. And how do you go about it when away from the office?
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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#89This 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...
Indeed! It's going "source available" (non-commercial only) and the cloud synch is closed. Sad.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#90Claim: 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…
Then don't use it
you got downvoted for it but it's a valid point. if you have an objection due to the privacy aspects then you're not in the target market. TAM is big and doesn't include you at this juncture.