Show HN: Sidekic AI, Giving You Infinite Memory

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3 years ago

Hello Hacker News! I’m Obinna, and I’m building www.sidekic.ai with my cofounder Harsha.

We’re building infinite memory for the world’s smartest people. A bit of marketing jargon, but here’s what we do.

    1.    We help you save any resource you find on the web, like websites, articles, videos and tweets. We’ll be releasing a browser extension soon to make this simpler!
    2.    Our AI automatically sorts, tags and organize your resources based on the content and the context. We put them into neat shareable collections called “StarterPacs”
    3.    Lastly we help you search through your resources that you’ve saved, but also from your friends, teams and communities.

Our end goal is to use this pipeline to build a curated index to offer a more helpful and relevant search experience based on curated knowledge from experts.

We chose to tackle this problem because we experienced first hand how stifling and time consuming it can be to search for information. We worked at LinkedIn and Apple previously, and search infrastructure at those companies was **.

More importantly, we saw that many of our friends also had this problem, and the best way they found to solve it was asking a coworker or subject matter expert.

Here is an example StarterPac: https://www.sidekic.ai/starterpac/8500825504404890

We just launched on product hunt today if you want to check us out! We’d appreciate any feedback, no matter how critical :) feel free to send an email as well! [email protected]

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sidekic-ai

Now for the fun stuff, how did we build this? It’s a pretty simple stack right now.

Frontend is NextJs, tailwinds, daisyUI and Spline. Our backend is AWS Amplify for the application layer (for now, moving to AppWrite most likely) and a Python flask server for the AI functions.

For our “AI” we use a combination of our own NLP models, and ChatGPT. GPT 3.5 has been more than enough for our purposes, so the running costs have been practically nothing.

As you can tell, the application is a bit slow. We wanted to launch something that we weren’t proud of to get quick feedback.

Thank you very much for reading! :)

1. We help you save any resource you find on the web, like websites, articles, videos and tweets. We’ll be releasing a browser extension soon to make this simpler! 2. Our AI automatically sorts, tags and organize your resources based on the content and the context. We put them into neat shareable collections called “StarterPacs” 3. Lastly we help you search through your resources that you’ve saved, but also from your friends, teams and communities.