allenleee
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Comment · 9 days ago
Never trust a VC-backed founder who says, "don't worry ___ is not leaving"
Source: In his May 2025 open letter to Arc members and subsequent public statements, CEO Josh Miller reassured users that while active feature development was ending, Arc would be maintained indefinitely.
https://www.theverge.com/news/674603/arc-browser-development...
Comment · 25 days ago
Congrats on the launch, Ilias! It's great to see more people working on local-first media search. Amazing design <3
Full disclosure: I've been building something similar. SCM is a free, open-source macOS app for searching photos and video scenes locally:
Comment · 27 days ago
thanks for this! will do some research on it
Comment · 27 days ago
YES! I can confirm it works perfectly on M1/M2/M3 machines (16g/64g).
Comment · 27 days ago
Thank you :) It's 100% free and open source!
Comment · 27 days ago
Glad you like it :)!
Comment · 27 days ago
Hey author here! :) Great point.
You're totally right. Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon. Pure Mac-only, I'd use it. (also smaller)
Main reason I went Tesseract: I want SCM to stay portable easily. It's ARM Mac for now, but the inference layer is all JS end-to-end — Transformers.js + ONNX for CLIP/SigLIP + Whisper, Tesseract.js WASM for OCR, all in plain Node workers.
A bit of background: I'm actually an iOS/macOS dev and I really love SwiftUI and AppKit — I just wanted v1 to stay portable by construction. Exploring a native Swift + MLX v2 track separately for speed.
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