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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 1 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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kilowatt ◴[24 Feb 25 06:47 UTC] No.43156493[source]▶
An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
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maxbond ◴[24 Feb 25 06:53 UTC] No.43156523[source]▶
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
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kilowatt ◴[24 Feb 25 07:12 UTC] No.43156633[source]▶
The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns.

I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian naivete...

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1. maxbond ◴[24 Feb 25 07:26 UTC] No.43156718[source]▶
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.

Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!