Show HN: Maxims: a scrappy embedding visualizer and commonplace book replacement

Hey HN,

I've been working on this little web-app in my spare time, in between my classes and over the summer holidays. I was frustrated by how many intersting quotes/tweets/photos I liked and then subsequently forgot. I wanted a way to keep track of all of them, and see how similar ideas and statements related to each other. Having seen https://atlas.nomic.ai/, and other text embedding visualizations (via PCA, UMAP, t-SNE), I thought this would be a fun place to start.

Here's an sharing link with some quotes I liked (mostly C.S. Lewis): https://maxims.app/share?tag=6fua96d

Features: - Image uploads (no sharing support yet)

- Tagging

- Vector-based text search

- Sharing points

- Changing dimension reduction technique

- Local first (syncing was a real pain, but it lead to a 10x speed boost)

Disclaimer: This is just a project I made for fun. It is scrappy, hacky, janky, and so forth. There may (and likely will) be undiscovered bugs and issues. Please don't put any sensitive info into here.

I hope you like it! Let me know what you think :)

- Wyatt (https://wyattsell.com)