mxek

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by mxek 11mo ago
Thanks! One big distinction: we aren't trying to automate people's browsing / clicking, but augment people's thinking. This creates a different feature set / model: tabs feeding into a document vs a chat going off a
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by mxek 11mo ago
Thanks for this. You forgot about the Deta Studio and the Horizon desktop app ;) But on your question -- we're backed by supportive investors, and try to be frugal (we've had our fair share of sardines & rice).
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by mxek 11mo ago
Great question. We'd look at Obsidian as a reference. We think there are a lot of value added services that can happen when you need servers, but they should be user aligned & optional (Mobile app, sync, publishing, backups, remote
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by mxek 11mo ago
We are in Berlin. Welcome! Don't know too many, unfortunately. AI Tinkerers organizes a few a year: https://berlin.aitinkerers.org/
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by mxek 11mo ago
We see NotebookLM as the closest thing! Surf is built entirely on editable WYSIWYG documents, NotebookLM's main AI is built on chat. Surf is built to be a bit more open, NotebookLM was a bit locked down for our taste. An example I&#x27
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by mxek 11mo ago
The big difference UX wise between chatbots and Surf is that Surf is built entirely on editable documents that you can mold / craft into an output (vs chat). We actually had a chatbot, but our explorations showed that notes were a more
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by mxek 11mo ago
Yes great point. Photos are intended as a very important subset of media. Not (yet) super usable, but for photos we have local OCR running, with Surf creating additional metadata (e.g. the link from where the photo was downloaded). Can imag
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by mxek 11mo ago
Yes agree, the Notebook / homepage UX still needs work. We recently introduced a sidebar (after the video was made) which has them organized as you mention.
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by mxek 11mo ago
Thanks for the input. We took inspiration from analog notebooks as a tool for thought, but wanted something for multi-media. We also see NotebookLM as the closest mainstream product to Surf. Related -- some people who have seen Surf's
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by mxek 11mo ago
Many ideas are inspired by Space, but totally different codebase.
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by mxek 11mo ago
Thanks for the link, super interesting! We have a super early form of runnable code, called "Surflets". More info here: https://github.com/deta/surf/blob/main/docs/SURFLETS.md Basically yo
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Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook(github.com)
143 points by mxek 11mo ago|41 comments
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The Web of Choices: Why Finding the Right Browser Is an Such Overwhelming Task(creativerly.com)
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Introducting Guide: A GUI for your Deta Base(blog.deta.sh)
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Why would you want more than machine language?(blog.deta.sh)
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by mxek 6y ago
My colleague did the site, but thanks for the kind words (also for flagging the typo)! Awesome, please let us know if you have any feedback / questions.
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by mxek 6y ago
Deta provides you with integrated backend services, like a database (already) or files (soon). Disclaimer: Deta is the main project I'm working on now; yarc is my most recent side project.
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Show HN: Yarc – bidirectional notes in markdown, accessible over API(github.com)
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by mxek 6y ago
This was down for a bit but should be fixed now, sorry!
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by mxek 6y ago
Hi — another co-creator here, thanks for the feedback. With respect to your first question, I believe abdelhai answered it in another thread above. We totally empathize with the experience of getting something to tinker and share rapidly up
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by mxek 6y ago
Hey HN, Snipz is a small app that lets you share code snippets. These snippets aren't static, but can accept suggestions, which are merge-able via a 'merge password'. The original link is a live demo, but the source code is h
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Show HN: Snipz (shareable code snippets with PRs)(cclwqvx4995d.deta.dev)
2 points by mxek 6y ago|1 comments
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Why would you want more than machine language? A history of assembly's birth(blog.deta.sh)
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Why would you want more than machine language?(blog.deta.sh)
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by mxek 7y ago
Hi, co-founder of DETA(deta.sh) here; we have a horse in this race, nonetheless are trying to make creating and hosting micro-backends super simple. Currently DETA ships with a micro-crud app based on a Flask-like router. Auto-generated UI
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by mxek 7y ago
Other co-founder here. Our philosophy on this: - For smaller apps, we think a lot of the difficulty in getting them working in the cloud is making many different tools play nice together. By bundling basic versions of everything and making
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by mxek 7y ago
Hi HN, I'm working with abdelhai on DETA. We want to make it super easy to create usable and sharable cloud scripts and data out of a toolbox of simple services. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!