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How HN took it
2 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for video editing
From 1 comment
This would really help in video editing. Thanks!
qlasisi15 on HN
Works well on M1/M2/M3 machines
From 1 comment
YES! I can confirm it works perfectly on M1/M2/M3 machines (16g/64g).
allenleee on HN
Objections
Tesseract is slower and less accurate than Apple Vision for OCR
From 1 comment
Since this is for the mac you really should be using apple's vision framework for OCR. It smokes tesseract in both speed and accuracy. Edit: I'm curious which LLM was used to…
postalcoder on HN
Built with JS/Electron, heavy on resources
From 2 comments
Why is this a JS bloatware instead of native or Rust which is easier than ever now with LLM coding tools.
cpursley on HNFair enough, but seriously, my machine has taken a beating by all these JavaScript and electron thingies.
cpursley on HN
Possibly vibe coded with edge case bugs
From 1 comment
Not OP, but probably because they have no idea what they are doing or what CLIP even is. And the whole thing is likely just from one llm prompt, and then they dumped the whole…
radicality on HN
Requests
Search for people, faces and pets
From 1 comment
This is cool. Any way to search for People / faces / pets? Like on iOS?
qprofyeh on HN
Support for external network drives
From 1 comment
Thanks for suggesting this. I have not tried it because the photos are on an external SMB network drive.
measure2xcut1x on HN
Questions
How long does indexing take for long videos
From 2 comments
how long does it takes for a FHD 90 minutes asset?
doubleorseven on HNI like the entire premise, the one thing stopping me from trying this is not knowing the time scales that I will need to set my computer aside for the processing of large folders…
stephenitis on HN
Fixed interval or scene change frame sampling
From 2 comments
How do you pick which video frames to index, fixed interval or scene changes? Curious what an hour of footage costs in disk and indexing time.
tomveber on HNHave you tried scene detection? I would guess camera cuts are even less frequent than keyframes.
xnx on HN
Alternatives named
Apple Photos natural language search
From 1 comment
Apple Photos can already search photos with natural language using on-device AI. Is it not working well for you?
tredre3 on HN
Immich
From 1 comment
possibly off-topic, but for anyone interested in this on a more cross-platform / holistic basis, Immich does this (& by "this" I mean an approximate AI search for photos & videos…
lucideer on HN