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namememory.netlify.app

8 pointsKasamiWorks7 comments

The "S" in "Vibe coded" stands for security. Though this app actually seems to have an impressive amount of polish and care put into it. Truly something that only a Japanese engineer could make.

The author wrote a bit more about making this app in Japanese here: https://note.com/kasamiworks/n/n69bc8d1cf943

What the landing page doesn't say: the free version is limited to 5 people only - such a small number that SRS is meaningless. The dev has made a big mistake here, building an extensive and polished product without first making an MVP to gauge product market fit. If he instead released a free MVP that could actually be used (unlimited people, maybe other features are limited) then maybe some people would actually use it. But as it is now probably anyone who downloads it is just going to delete it right away.

I just installed and deleted the app.

Aren't we meant to forget or almost forget some names? If you can't remember them, maybe there is a reason for that? I feel like organic "remember or not" kind of naturally filters for what's important for us individually.

I think if you could remember every detail about whatever you did in life, you would go insane.

some people can (those with eidetic memory or hyperthymesia), and are seemingly sane, not that that word really means much.

Seems from what I can find on Google that people with that condition can remember extreme detail but with many limitations. Does not seem they can remember everything that ever happened to them, like a conversation they had with their mother age 5, the questions and answers they put in high school, what was in the article they read 13 August 2009 at 11 am in the morning word for word etc. I would still say that would drive you insane, for at least some definition for which you could not actually function in society.

I did read about someone with that kind of recall, sufficient to remember all the number plates that passed the car on a trip 5 years ago. i am well out of my area of knowledge and understanding here though, so this is all rumint/hearsay.

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