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I believe it uses ScreenCaptureKit.
In the meantime, 100% agree, it's complete fantastical nonsense.
It's an open-source iOS voice agent that uses the OpenAI Realtime API (bring your own key).
Current connectors: Hacker News (check demo in readme!), Google Drive, GitHub, and web search.
I got frustrated with the limitations of the OpenAI Realtime Voice iOS app—for example, it can't even connect to Google Drive.
Arty is self-contained except for the OpenAI model and any third-party services you connect to. Uses local tools—no MCP support yet.
If you'd like additional connectors, feel free to open an issue.
I think the solution lies into cracking the core algorithms used by nature to build the brain. Too bad it’s such an inscrutable hairball of analog spaghetti code.
Maybe a better example is an image generation api. Your agent chooses one based on its research, and without any account or credit card on file, it buys you an image using a x402.
Even though Rust can end up with some ugly/crazy code, I love it overall because I can feel pretty safe that I'm not going to create hard-to-find memory errors.
Sure, I can (and do) write code that causes my (rust) app to crash, but so far they've all been super trivial errors to debug and fix.
I haven't tried Zig yet though. Does it give me all the same compile time memory usage guarantees?
I've never used their product, I've only looked at their website and was extremely impressed. I remember their bullet points were around clean architecture, testing, performance, etc, all the stuff that engineers/devops folks care the most about, so they can avoid getting paged in the middle of the night to rolling reboot every node in their ${name-of-distributed-database with-scaling-issues} cluster.
But, unfortunately, it seems like if you depend on revenue that derives solely from training and support, you're best bet is to make a product that has:
* Awful documentation (hence the need for people to pay for training)
* Full of bugs and performance issues (hence the need for people to pay for support)
Since from the looks of it, RethinkDB was pretty much the polar opposite of this, it seems like they were essentially a victim of their own perfection.
I wonder if any RethinkDB users out there paid for support just to try to keep RethinkDB alive?
Also, I wonder why RethinkDB doesn't change their revenue model if it's not working for them?
Couchbase was a merger between NorthScale and CouchOne. The CouchOne founding team were all CouchdDB project founders: Damien Katz, J Chris Anderson, and Jan Lehnardt. NorthScale was founded by Steve Yen, who was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel, and Dustin Sallings, who was a committer on the Memcached project.
The first product that NorthScale released was called Membase, and the point of it was to help companies run large memcached clusters without having to think very hard. Couchbase later evolved into a hybrid of Membase and CouchDB that can speak the memcached protocol but also has some of the JSON document database properties that CouchDB has.
Agree 100% -- Parse deserves huge kudos for that move.
Ex-Parse customers should definitely check out Couchbase Mobile, which has some functionality overlap with Parse and is already open source with several repos on github:
https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android
At least you won't have to worry about getting "Parsed".