tristanho

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by tristanho 1y ago
Doesn't this does seem like a bit of an... exact rip off of turbopuffer? Down to the style of the webpages and the details of the pricing? Here's the pricing calculator, for example: https://share.cleanshot.com/Jdd
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by tristanho 1y ago
Thanks! Kobo is hard because it's proprietary software, but we would like to... However, there is a wide range of eink devices that already exist that run Android (check out Boox, Meebook, Daylight, though there are many others) -- we&
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by tristanho 1y ago
I think the image urls provided in the RSS feed are just broken, eg this one is linked in the latest article: https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/french.webp
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by tristanho 1y ago
No, unfortunately their API doesn't return the actual html content of the saved articles :( just the urls and all the metadata: highlights, title, author, image, tags, location, etc I really wish they did :/ some things aren'
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by tristanho 1y ago
Cool! The import should auto-retry, but in case something gets snagged there you can also always do `cmd+k -> pocket` to retrigger a full import. Totally hear you on price.. Reader is built for people who spend a lot of time reading and
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by tristanho 1y ago
That is definitely one of the biggest painpoints, and we feel it ourselves for whatever it's worth! However, if you're just looking for a replacement for Pocket, you only need the Reader app/extension and it shouldn't be
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by tristanho 1y ago
You can connect Pocket to Readwise Reader ( readwise.io/reader ), via Pocket's API, which will let Reader view all the tags, metadata, highlights, etc. Even if you didn't want to use Reader, you could then export from inside
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by tristanho 2y ago
This is basically our exact experience at readwise.io too. Originally, everything was through Heroku. We started by moving our heroku redis and postgres to redislabs and crunchy respectively, which were 10x+ better in terms of support, reli
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by tristanho 3y ago
Honestly just loading all vectors in-memory (and stuff like sqlite, pgvector) is totally fine when you're dealing with O(100k) vectors, but beyond that all the workable options like pinecone get gnarly, slow, and ridiculously expensive
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by tristanho 3y ago
Sort of off topic, but for diagrams like the author seems to want (well, maybe a little lower fidelity, but good enough for any software system mapping I do), I love using Kinopio (kinopio.club) Didn't see any mentions here.
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by tristanho 3y ago
Related: I've ordered this build-your-own tensegrity kit, which is really fun to build https://pretenst.com/ Very different to read about vs get a feel for them in your hands. They also have an open-source simulator fo
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by tristanho 4y ago
Hmmm yes, I wonder if this project was discovered/shared here before it was really ready to be published. Very excited for the code/demo when they're ready!
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by tristanho 4y ago
Does anyone have a good idea of when OPFS will be broadly available in all major browsers? And what's best to use as a pseudo-polyfill in the mean time? Something relevant is absurd-sql, but unfortunately that's not even close to
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by tristanho 4y ago
Hey! Totally understand this concern with the browser extension. I mentioned this in another comment, but there was no way to build the full functionality without these permissions, though we do hope to make a lighter version of the extensi
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by tristanho 4y ago
Unfortunately, there was no way to make the _full_ extension work with only activeTab, as we have some functionality that is incompatible (one such example: if you open up a page you've previously saved and highlighted in Reader, we sh
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by tristanho 4y ago
Thanks! Yeah, part of the motivation for Reader was that our original readwise app was integrated with a bunch of these apps like Pocket and Instapaper... and we saw them completely fall by the wayside. Our users were constantly asking us t
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by tristanho 4y ago
Heyo! 1. Yes, absolutely. Ex-Pocket users are some of the most common folks using Reader right now. 2. We don't really have a bookmark import yet... we strangely haven't really had enough requests (yet) to build it, but not agains
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by tristanho 4y ago
Heyo! Yeah, our parser doesn't work great with HN threads (yet! i'd love to get it working...) But in the mean time the Reader browser extension also acts as a web highlighter. So after activating it, you can highlight any text di
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by tristanho 4y ago
Yes, we do use common third party apps for analytics/ads. We do not share personal reading data with them. Amazon is just used for their Oauth login API for example (for an easy sign in flow for users), and mixpanel is a very common an
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by tristanho 4y ago
Ah, sorry about that. Indeed, we do have that splash screen page, but for speed of development we just quickly threw it into our main webapp. Will change that for next time, thanks!
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by tristanho 4y ago
This is simply not true. We not sell user data to anyone at all. The business is _entirely_ funded through customer subscriptions.
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by tristanho 4y ago
Heyo disqard -- thanks for the feedback! You can actually already do something like this. From readwise.io/export there is a bulk markdown option which lets you save all of your highlights/notes in a zip file, with one markdown fi
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by tristanho 4y ago
We definitely do not share reading data with meta or google. Honestly we installed those a while back when experimenting with ads, but dont use them anymore… will look at ripping out!
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by tristanho 4y ago
It’s not fully offline — we sync data across your many devices, have a cloud service that parses the clean versions of documents using ML, etc It’s just that once your device is synced, you will be able to use it + read fully offline, then
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by tristanho 4y ago
Heyo! Yeah there’s a free trial for 30 days and after that you can definitely export all data (links, metadata, highlights, etc)
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by tristanho 4y ago
Hey Sytelus, it sounds like you might have installed the wrong app. You’re describing our classic “Readwise 1.0” app, which admittedly could use some design work! (and of course is not a bookmark/reader app) This post refers to our new
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by tristanho 4y ago
Thank you! 1) Haha yeah, the inverted colors was kind of a quick hack to make some folks happy. That css looks great -- will definitely explore something like that with our designer :) 2) Not a bad idea at all...
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Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app(readwise.io)
326 points by tristanho 4y ago|156 comments
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by tristanho 4y ago
Check out https://watershed.com/jobs I have no affiliation, other than previously working with the founders at Stripe (they are some of the most impressive people I've met in my life).
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by tristanho 4y ago
FWIW, the article does include some data on the distribution, as well as address your exact objection: > Since posting this experiment, I've received a lot of side comments along the lines of, "Well, of course I don't expe

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