dsiroker
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Founder & CEO of Scribe AI
Founder & CEO of Mind Emulation Foundation (YC W18)
Co-Founder of Optimizely (YC W10)
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Comment · 1 year ago
(Co-founder & CEO of Limitless) Thanks for trying it and I hope to win you back with the new features we have in the works!
As for selling data if consumers don’t want to pay for it: I commit publicly to never doing this. I will shutdown the company and return remaining capital to investors if consumers don’t want to pay for what we are building. So far, so good, and we were actually cash flow positive a few of the last few weeks.
Comment · 1 year ago
(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you
Comment · 1 year ago
Love your enthusiasm! Our plan is to subsume Rewind functionality into Limitless. Sorry it has taken longer than I wanted. The pendant has taken a lot of our time and focus.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's why we are going to offer Consent Mode.
Consent Mode makes it possible for the first time ever to only capture the voice of people who have given consent to be recorded.
It uses voice identification to determine who is speaking and verbal opt-in to make it frictionless to ask for consent.
Here's a direct link to the timestamp of the announcement where we show how Consent Mode works: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383?t=26...
Comment · 2 years ago
Hardware is hard. We would have happily done this as a native iPhone or Watch app if it were possible. We explored that first. But, unfortunately both iOS and watchOS don't support it. In particular, anytime you listen to audio (a YouTube video, phone call, etc) it turns off the microphone and you have to remember to turn it back on.
Comment · 2 years ago
Confidential Cloud is similar to end-to-end encryption, but with the added benefit of letting your personalized AI work for you even when you aren’t using the app.
You control who can decrypt your data
Your employer, we as software providers, and the government cannot decrypt your data without your permission, even with a subpoena to do so.
Your data is anonymized
There is an initial mapping from your application request to an anonymous ID, but after that, even we don't know whose encrypted data is whose.
Your data will never be sold
Not only do we pledge never to sell your data, but we couldn't even if we wanted to because we can't decrypt it without your permission.
Envelope encryption with unique secret keys
Data keys are used to encrypt your data and are themselves encrypted under a secret key. No one, including us, can export the secret keys.
Tamperproof hardware
Decrypted data is only ever stored in memory (source: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/cryptographic-details...>), which is protected from tampering by a multi-chip standalone hardware cryptographic appliance (source: <https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validati...>).
Protected from 3rd party AI providers
Data sent to 3rd party AI providers for transcription and summarization is anonymized, not used for training, and deleted after 30 days.
Protected from cloud provider and subpoena
AWS KMS (source: <https://aws.amazon.com/kms/>) uses FIPS 140-2 (source: <https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-modu...>) validated hardware security modules (HSMs) to ensure no one, including AWS employees, can retrieve your plaintext KMS keys.
Comment · 2 years ago
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our existing customers, so all Rewind Pro subscribers get Limitless Pro for free.
We are shifting our focus to Limitless because we think it’s a better approach to solving the same problems. In fact, we plan to implement many of your favorite Rewind features directly in Limitless.
We are so bullish on Limitless that we decided to change our company name from Rewind to Limitless.
That said, we have no plans to stop supporting Rewind.
You can even use both products side-by-side and decide for yourself which one you like better.
Comment · 2 years ago
(I'm the co-founder & CEO of Limitless)
We are so honored this hit the front page of HN!
Here's the video announcement: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1779857843895599383
And timestamps to moments in the video you might be interested in:
0:06 Reveal
0:48 Why Limitless?
1:39 Demo
3:05 Pendant
4:27 Privacy
5:23 Confidential Cloud
6:36 Rewind
7:12 Roadmap
9:25 Vision
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think this qualifies as a credible answer? If not, what more can we offer to rebuild your trust in us?
Comment · 3 years ago
(co-founder & CEO of Rewind here)
I'd really love to share more but our competitors will try to imitate it and I want to build as large of a lead as I can before we unveil it.
I'll just say: it is fundamental to the product experience, not a bolt on.
Comment · 3 years ago
(Rewind CEO here) I’ve been at this for a while: https://x.com/dsiroker/status/1708997628506292255
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s been 14 years since my first submission to HN and I am so grateful to this community for all your feedback & help on my first company (Optimizely) and now my second one (Rewind). Today we’re introducing Rewind for iPhone - a truly personalized AI in your pocket. I’d love your feedback!
Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)
- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.
- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.
- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.
Summarize and ask any question using AI
- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.
- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.
Private by design
- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.
- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.
Learn more: https://www.rewind.ai
Please let me know what you think!
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback!
On Mac: you are right that recording audio causes your notifications to be hidden by default. There is an OS setting to change that behavior. Here's how to change it: https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/7039599-what-are-the-limi...
On pricing: you are also right. We are thinking about new pricing & packaging that feels fairer. We're thinking about doing purely feature-based package differentiation (as opposed to tracking number of "rewinds"). Would love your thoughts or suggestions.
On muscle memory: again, you are right. Some of our users think of our product today as mostly insurance and don't actively use it every day. We hope to change that by giving them valuable things that fit into their existing daily workflow (e.g. summarizing meetings, telling you how you know the person you are about to meet with, proactively drafting emails for you based on context)