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by theamk 288 days ago
I don't understand why you need discovery in personal apps at all. They are just for you, you know exactly what's available and what's not.

Do you need document storage? Hardcode `sftp://192.168.1.18/data` (or `sftp://data-server.local/data` if you want to be fancy), it's just for you. Do you need to send a notification? Pretty sure you know what your favorite method it, call it directly. Maybe add a local proxy that adds your token to avoid copying token around. Need ollama access? Don't mess with discovery, hardcode again...

So what does discovery give you?

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It’s not about doing discovery _from_ personal apps, but the inverse: doing discovery _of_ personal apps.

For example, an app that uses an AI chat API can discover and route requests to your preferred provider (ollama, etc)