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by huehehue 918 days ago
Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are:

a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user

b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster

Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel links in your social graph.

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Use b) with a local datastore and attached LLM and it sounds like a great solution to me. I would 100% give this a try if someone already has something rigged up on GitHub or try building it myself if not. Should be easy to run on a modern machine and I hear open source LLMs are constantly improving.
I'm leaning into this without a commercial consideration so I don't need to overthink it, it's just something I want for myself.

I agree point b is a minefield and given my info is on the system, I've got skin in the game to make it secure.