Sorry, up now, but I'm still trying to figure the root cause. I've made several adjustments, but it still seems to happen even with quite a bit less traffic right now. The db server is fine, but the Cloudrun/Django side is getting connection errors. At the least, I've got some live load testing out of this and can make it a little more solid. :)
Very nice! Seems like some of the native apps focusing on audio have done quite well. I hope you are as well.
I do keep thinking long form audio and diarization would get me something practical more smb and trades people would consider using.
My original personal desire was to replace my use of roam research which is not the most consumer friendly. Not sure how long I can stay focused on plain text without staying super niche, but sticking with it for now. :)
To the extent that I don't want ai modifying my notes, I agree. But when AI can help organize, tag, and make my life easier, then I'm all in. It's gotten better, but there are still cases where entities are tagged incorrectly, and you have to manually correct them. I always try to prioritize manual adjustments in the app over AI input. The goal is to reduce the effort I need to jot random info down.
thanks for the heads up. Lowered max concurrent requests and a couple of other small changes. It's not totally solved, but it mostly staying up and seems to come back quickly when it fails. Suppose I need to learn how to load test in the future. :)
I'm both the main user and only developer -- so I try to do grug way first in user experience, then in development. I think I've realized that no matter what you set out to do, it gets insanely complex. But user experience is more important to keep simple than anything else imo. But you're right, everyone has their own definition of grugness.
Thanks for looking! I'm actually surprised Apple hasn't done this yet. The organizing and search stuff they do with photos, metadata, and image recognition is really great. So I'm sure they will.
As a pwa, it'd be a bit annoying since it'll have to ask you every time to geolocate. At least, I think it's the same as mic access.
Every block and 'prompt' entity does get embeddings made of it, so the search works pretty well. Kind of with the goal of moving away from tags entirely. I've never found graph views useful, and I don't really tend to click around in my notes. Beyond clicking on my daughter's name, and in that case, all mentions are listed there. You can ask stuff like "What's Bob's kid's name?" and it should mostly answer.
But yeah, there is lots of room for improvement -- I'm such a minimalist when it comes to notes, there's a narrow band of use cases I feel like it's good for at this point. I've never tried to organize actual deep knowledge with an app.
I agree, but it is also very difficult to actually do. Either needs hosted or local LLM, right? how else can you process? I try to explain my views clearly on the landing page. And say to use apple, obsidian, or reflect where that is the priority. I find the utility of passing to LLMs worth it for what I'm taking notes on.
took one query off the landing page. but still don't quite know why. switched to uvicorn from gunicorn since I had this last. but will see how cloudrun holds up lol.
Does anyone have a good dataset for testing libraries like this? I suppose it's not difficult to generate one these days, but curious if there is a standard.
You should read past the cover page. Guy is legit, cs prof, and a fellow old guy. He’s been at this a long time and by all means should write a modern day marketing book too. Some of his other code is getting pretty wide distribution (in rails). Worth learning about imho even if you don’t use it.
Awesome guys. I had a poster of Helios on my wall growing up. I'd be curious to know more about the construction. 13 lbs for a first prototype is pretty good. I have a 4'x25' autoclave, so if there's anything I can do to help, let me know! I mostly make 16 lb canoes, but have lots of extra machine time. The only problem, I am in Hawai'i. :)
https://grugnotes.com A simpler note taking app -- about a year of baking, but still feeling pretty half done. Started as a scratch my own itch for replacing roam, now with some mild ambition to be a 'blue collar' notion like app. Still some massive holes like no imports, exports, docs, tos, onboarding videos etc. But pleased with my progress on speed, sync, search, whisper, and other features. It's been a fun way keep up with ai space, but a slow climb into self sustaining product. Still highly motivated and looking forward to the next year!
Not sure it's as early as you are looking for, I've been at it for 10 months, but https://grugnotes.com is my take on a simpler roam/obsidian/yet another notetaking app. Casual ambition to make it a saas business. But of late, just building without too much polishing, trying to get it to a point I can use it effectively in my small business. Always so much more to making something real than you ever imagine.
I have nothing particularly relevant to add. But Paul Theroux bought a canoe from me maybe four years ago. And paddles with some of the local uncles on the North Shore of Oahu. I believe he got quite some joy out of it and that makes me happy. I've enjoyed some of his work since.
Has anyone done any quick models/math on foil assisted container ships? I have no opinions, someone mentioned it and it got me wondering how the math fairs.
I follow you and Pieter Levels on twitter. Some wild things you guys create -- the control net things are unreal. I am continually impressed and inspired.
If you're looking for critiques or improvements stating "Indistinguishable from real photos" seems a stretch as good as they are. Even if I were to use ai photos, I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest. I'd push more towards a new thing, not sell as replacement for proper headshots. In that way, I'd think stylized things would do better, ie make it a piece of art. But also I'm def not target customer and you already seem to be doing quite well. Good on you for building so much.