Funny, I feel the same way about humans.
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No, and that's not what the article says either. They were just tracking how well his tweets were doing versus others. They were not favoring Elon.
I know Neil is working on improving the speed of it using CoreML, which is I think the next big leap forward. Congratulations Neil!
The DB is so fundamental, and so hard to get right / scale, that it's hard to trust a startup to do it well.
We use Firebase and even with all the resources google has this has a lot of issues (especially with the client libs).
In my opinion, what we need is:
1) A client-side performant SQLite database that supports live queries. I.e. you can automatically re-render the page when the queries change. That way your database can drive the UI and be the source of truth in regards to what's displayed on the screen.
2) A separate realtime syncing protocol that syncs database state to client state.
And ideally this is all open source, and that these two endeavors are not coupled tightly.
[1] Wa-sqlite is the best (imo) client-side db - better than than the official Sqlite WASM build (for now) because it had a indexeddb fallback for browsers that aren't the cutting edge Chrome.
[2] cr-sqlite is an interesting project using CRDTs to sync state around. However I still believe that for many production use-cases you want a ultimate server source of truth.
[3] Replicache is still the best closed source solution I know of.
[1] - https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite [2] - https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite [3] - https://replicache.dev/
You make a good point though. We should write a langchain plugin to our API.
Sign up for Vercel and play around with the sample apps.
Our goals are modest, we're just trying to create a sustainable business. We're currently half-way towards profitability, and are on track to be profitable by the end of the year.
Regarding export formats, you can always export your notes into markdown or HTML so you shouldn't feel too locked in.
I started Reflect a few years ago. We're building it as a lifestyle company. There's only four of us. We bootstrapped for a while, and then did a $1m crowdfund. Now our goal is to get to profitability, and we're half-way there.
Product wise, our goal is to make something beautiful, fast, secure - that just works out the box. We're end-to-encrypted, which I think this crowd will appreciate.
Happy to answer any questions.
V2 would be:
- Transcribe through Whisper - Semantic search
Was told the business required a degree of enterprise sales that my skills weren't suited for. It's now worth $350m (on paper at least).
That said, no hard feelings. They see so many applications - they're bound to make the wrong decision time to time.