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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 4 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.92s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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asim ◴[27 Apr 23 16:35 UTC] No.35730676[source]▶
Lots of things. But one I am coming back to is called Malten (https://malten.com). It was essentially a place for me to blackhole my thoughts anonymously rather than putting them on twitter. Recently as I've seen ChatGPT take off it's made me revisit the project and create an integration for it (not yet publicly hosted). Ideally I'd just be able to voice my thoughts to an AI now in a private manner. Let's see.

https://github.com/asim/malten for anyone who wants to run it themselves.

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1. jansan ◴[28 Apr 23 06:56 UTC] No.35738312[source]▶
Out of curiosity, what do you hope the AI will do with your thoughts?
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2. asim ◴[28 Apr 23 07:13 UTC] No.35738419[source]▶
A cheaper form of therapy. Therapists are mostly mirroring your own thoughts or helping you see things you can't see. Ideally you have something that can just listen and echo your thoughts back or acknowledge them, without the need to pay $100/hour.
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3. jansan ◴[28 Apr 23 07:25 UTC] No.35738503[source]▶
Wow, that's an application for AI that I never had thought about. Fascinating idea.
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4. asim ◴[28 Apr 23 08:16 UTC] No.35738810{3}[source]▶
Thanks! Still trying to figure out the AI aspect, it was mostly just anonymous ephemeral messaging for a long time. So trying to understand the best way to add that in. Also whether I even care about charging for it tbh.