thatgurjot

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by thatgurjot 6mo ago
Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche. Love the local-first, browser-based nature
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
That’s fair. I was offering Buzee for free! The inertia is real. As much as they appreciated the speed, it seemed like they didn’t really want to find their files faster.
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Did you download from the link on this page? [1] That should download the v0.1.1 build. So long as you install it with admin privileges and ignore the security warnings, it shouldn't have an issue. In case it doesn't work still, I
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
You make my day. Thank you. This sort of validation makes my inner child really happy. :)
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Used the operating system’s native OCR APIs for parsing text from PDFs and images. Does that count? :)
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Yes. That is the standard business model to follow. But I never reached that point because of my novice programming skills and the fact that this was a hobby project. My intention was to make it free for individuals (search on desktop + per
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
The only product I have seen do well is Glean [1] but they are B2B so not exactly consumer-grade software. I think the everyday person works better with the separation of concerns that comes with using multiple services. For me personally,
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Haha very cute! You can see Buzo’s mugshot here: https://buzo.tools/ :D
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Getting everything to work reliably. This was my first time handling a software with so many moving parts. If I could get the search query to work, I would break the date range filter, if that worked, the document indexing flow would stutte
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
I feel I gave up early too but oh well, I sat on it for too long. I hope somebody else can make something good out of it! Once I had a more reliable foundation, I planned on adding a tiny LLM that can run locally and parse user’s natural qu
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Makes sense! I’d presume they’re referring to boozy (like booze/liquor) but not sure if that’d qualify as “colorful slang”
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Yeah, it’s weird on Windows. I paid Apple $99/year for code signing on Mac but at least it worked seamlessly. On Windows it seemed like the code signing process varies depending on where you buy the certificate from!
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Omg hi Simon! Big fan. Your work on datasette and generally using SQLite for solving problems was one of my main motivations behind Buzee. Thank you for all your work and for documenting it all!
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
I tried Parallels with like three different accounts :) But I also found that a native Windows machine throws a lot more errors than a VM. For example, having a sqlite3.dll ended up being critical on the Windows 10 machine but not on the Pa
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
I named Buzee after my pet dog. I guess I am unaware of what you’re referring to, English isn’t my native language after all. Hope it isn’t a slur or something!
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Funny you say that. Legal and invoice were actually the two avenues I actually explored! There definitely is an opportunity there but I found that there is an intense status quo to fight.
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Thanks! Search wasn’t the most difficult problem here. I found SQLite’s FTS5 to be quite powerful. Later combined with Tantivy, I think it’s a superb combination to tackle pretty much any local search needs.
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
I just read “I like Buzee’s UX” and giggled. Thank you for the kind words, stranger!
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
You are 100% correct. I focused on Mac because my personal machine is a MacBook :) That was part of my failure. I wanted to solve a problem for Windows but didn't have a decent Windows machine myself! Had to rely on a 10-year old lapto
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Of course, Alfred and Everything are more mature products. My motivation was: (1) Build something on my own (2) Build a dedicated full-text search only product I was trying to scratch my own itch really.
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Honestly, the story isn't that interesting. When I started I barely new JavaScript. Over the course of development, I learned Rust and TypeScript, and grappled with so many edge-cases and intricacies of NodeJS, SQLite, Tauri, Tantivy,
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
That's pretty cool! What you're building is kind of what my vision with Buzee was. Wishing you good luck!
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Haha you are right! The releases were actually hosted on a separate public repository to handle automatic app updates since the source code was private. I have updated the readme with screenshots. You can visit the website [1] or the releas
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Hi, I am sure Buzee could be of great help to you! It certainly helps me out with my work which is quite similar to your scenario. For Windows, you should try this link [1]. Unfortunately, it'll only work if you install it under admin
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
Spotlight didn’t quite work for me for file search. But yes, there is not much value add here other than a GUI. The main motivation was that Windows Search is often slow and terrible. But then I wasn’t able to help many Windows users becaus
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
That’s the next step. Today I just wanted to get it out in the public. Will add an architectural diagram to the readme and in-line comments to the code.
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Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application(github.com)
229 points by thatgurjot 2y ago|84 comments
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Show HN: I proved myself wrong with a spreadsheet and made a Protein Calculator(buzo.tools)
2 points by thatgurjot 2y ago|1 comments
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
You know how the Internet is full of _”you must eat your body weight in grams of protein every day”_ spiel? I did some in-my-head calculations over lunch the other day and arrived at the conclusion that this is nonsense. There is no way tha
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by thatgurjot 2y ago
This is reallyyyy well done, mate! Thank you for sharing it with the world.

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