thatgurjot

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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   This is a great idea! Love the minimal implementation of it too. I have struggled with a similar but unrelated problem at my workplace before. This might just help with that. Will dig into the code! Some questions: 1. Are the “snippets” all
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Hey, great work! You could easily add the Bootstrap Icons library to this. And then perhaps the Noun Project. https://icons.getbootstrap.com/ https://thenounproject.com/
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. If it’s obscured behind a cloud like Nike Run Club now, there might still be a way. But maybe I’ll start with simpler services with an existing public API like Strava :)
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Ah that’s quite an interesting use case. I have never used Google Maps as extensively - very point to point usage for me. But I’ll check their API out! Thanks for sharing!
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Yup! Are there any specific services that you use regularly? Ones that you would like to use in this “god app”? For me it is: Nike Run Club, Firefox, Omnivore, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Health.
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Exactly! Consider you have an SQLite database on your computer with your aggregated data from Strava, Spotify, and everything else. You do whatever you want with it. The app will come with a GUI that will allow some additional analysis or q
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   I’d differ. Recall is more akin to what Rewind AI[1] is building. I don’t care to know what happened in a chat box in my Zoom call last Friday. I just want to be able to explore structured data that I have generated across different service
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Fair point. Thanks for sharing your perspective! Would you consider it a risk even if the app was open source?
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   by thatgurjot 2y ago

   Thanks for the vote of confidence! I’ll post screenshots when I have something more than haphazardly put together Python scripts :) You are right about switching to an open service! I am prioritising such services. Like Omnivore[1] is for b
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    by thatgurjot 2y ago

    The app is only going to extract your data from those services and save it to a database on your local device. I am not proposing a rent seeking SaaS solution. Just an open source solution for a problem, say like Calibre is for ebooks.
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    by thatgurjot 2y ago

    I would say that it is different from IFTTT and Zapier because it is not meant to “do something” when something happens in your cloud service. It’s only meant to periodically save your data in a local database on your computer. Plus there’s
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    by thatgurjot 2y ago

    But IFTTT or Zapier don’t have the integrations for exporting your historical data, right? At least I didn’t find those plugins!
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    by thatgurjot 2y ago

    That’s a fair point! Exactly what my brother pointed out when he called it the “god app”. However, this isn’t intended to be the “ultimate” app with your entire digital footprint logged to a database. It’s supposed to have a few meaningful
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    Ask HN: Would you try an app to consolidate and search your digital footprint?

    6 points by thatgurjot 2y ago|24 comments
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    by thatgurjot 3y ago

    I like this as a starting point, gonna recommend it from now on! Although the benefit of using a static site generator like Hugo is the ability to short codes to reuse code snippets (like embedding videos or images). But that can wait - get
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    by thatgurjot 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing this! This comparison is quite helpful as I was facing write speed issues for my desktop app that uses SQLite (just text, not embeddings). For working with embeddings on desktop, would you recommend using a vector DB? Or