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How HN took it
22 positive, 98 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 30 critical, out of 155 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 6 for, 7 againstPerformance: 4 for, 5 againstDesign: 2 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 6 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Tauri gives much smaller binaries than Electron
From 2 comments
+1 for using Tauri over Electron. I've been using it for my MCP marketplace and management app[1], and it's been excellent. Having previously used only Electron, I was surprised…
schappim on HNI write a lot of small internal tools to enable my team to work more efficiently. I've traditionally used WinForms, but recently tried using WinUI3. Disaster. Not even close to…
sturges on HN
Rewrite explanation of technical tradeoffs is useful for Show HN
From 1 comment
I'm neither a Mac uset nor is our team exploring a Rust rewrite ... however I appreciate this post. This is what I hope for from "Show HN", a just long enough summary of…
zalebz on HN
Objections
Mac-only support; no Windows or Linux yet
From 2 comments
- "Try" on the main LP call to action implies there is an available trial but just leads to a buy page. You really should have a trial, even something like just 1 week. - Fan of…
jdprgm on HNI would be willing to pay for this if it were available for Linux! Main use case: searching through my years of screenshots
NeroVanbierv on HN
No free trial; the try button goes straight to payment
From 2 comments
There is no trial - the "Try Desktop Docs" button just links you to a stripe payment. Also it's a bit ambiguous if it searches documents? All the screenshots of are of image…
turtlebits on HN- "Try" on the main LP call to action implies there is an available trial but just leads to a buy page. You really should have a trial, even something like just 1 week. - Fan of…
jdprgm on HN
Price of $99 is high for general consumers
From 2 comments
- "Try" on the main LP call to action implies there is an available trial but just leads to a buy page. You really should have a trial, even something like just 1 week. - Fan of…
jdprgm on HNVery nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay…
TheMiddleMan on HN
Requests
Support for RAW image files
From 1 comment
I love the idea of wha this app is doing, and so many of the options in this space are laggy and painful, so I'm very interested in this rewrite. That said, as a photographer a…
ebrynne on HN
Linux support
From 1 comment
I would be willing to pay for this if it were available for Linux! Main use case: searching through my years of screenshots
NeroVanbierv on HN
Demo and contact information
From 1 comment
Very nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay…
TheMiddleMan on HN
Questions
Why Redis instead of SQLite or an embedded Rust store
From 4 comments
Honest curiosity — why did you choose a service like Redis over a more straightforward embedded solution like SQLite? In my head Redis seems better suited to distributed…
abvdasker on HNWhy did you bundle Redis and not use one of the many key value libraries available for Rust (or even sqlite)?
terhechte on HN> Redis for vector storage ... Redis bundling nightmares Im super curious why you picked Redis over something more typical (SQLite springs to mind) What was the advantage of…
zer00eyz on HNWhy embed Redis ? What feature do you need from Redis so bad that you need to embed it? Maybe you could just use Rust and have something performant without adding complexity?
whatevermom on HN
Whether newer multimodal embedding models could replace CLIP
From 1 comment
> Today the app still uses CLIP for embeddings Have you investigated multimodal embeddings from other models? CLIP is out of date, to put it mildly.
minimaxir on HN
Alternatives named
Tauri-based apps for image search and management
From 1 comment
I have built something similar but only for photos - https://viroop.com. It is free for now. You have to run this command on the extracted app for MacOS to not show you the…
mukeshsoni on HN
Flutter for cross-platform desktop
From 2 comments
Isn't such app best implmented with some cross platform framework like flutter? It has support for all major desktop OSes and at leqast the examples run very smooth.
gozzoo on HNshould just use flutter from the start
tonyhart7 on HN