ncantelmo

I really don't believe this is true for tech companies at all.

A decade ago, I had a front-row seat for Yahoo! under the stewardship of CEOs brought in to run the business well. The focus was not on innovation, and the company continued to languish. Why? Because tech companies that don't innovate get their lunches eaten by the ones that do.

As for Buffett, I'm no expert on his portfolio, but I believe his track record was built on non-tech companies until very recently.

There's also a high chance that document was shared on Slack. In which case, they were one Slack breach away from the entire world having write access to their prod database.

It's depressing how many companies blindly throw unencrypted credentials around like this.

Thanks, and happy to hear about any applications you have in mind! Feel free to email [email protected] if you'd like to discuss.

Thanks Michael, just sent you a note!

Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you! I'll keep working to get it launched ASAP. The response from HN today has been extremely encouraging.

Appreciate it! I'm looking forward to it too, at this point.

Email sent, happy to hear about your use case!

The plan is to offer a subscription service even if there's an offline component. For a bunch of reasons, it's the best approach for a one-person venture trying to get off the ground.

I've been an OSS user and supporter for a long time. I don't think I'll be open sourcing the core system anytime soon, but I'm very likely to release any useful NLP or ML-related libraries that are created as part of this project. Not sure what those will be or when they'll be ready, but I do have a mind to give back to the OSS community.

Yeah, I understand, it's a completely valid use case. I'm personally much more productive when I'm completely disconnected, so I really identify with the request.

I had, in the past, also been thinking a bit about how the system could work offline because it would avoid a lot of security issues for something like a medical office that wants to create content that's then copied into a medical records system.

My initial thought was to bundle a local copy of the server with pre-trained models, but that becomes problematic on mobile clients. I'm writing the server in Go, so if I go that route I'd probably need to reimplement parts of it in another language and avoid using any remote APIs.

So the answer is: very likely yes, but not initially. You've definitely moved the functionality up my planned features list.

Thanks, sent you an email!

Thanks for the signup!

My initial target is short-form content such as blog posts and essays. I'm going to wait to see how that goes to decide what to focus on next, but odds are that it'll be more structured content like academic papers or technical reports.

I'm definitely not ruling out an eventual focus on creative writing, but it'll take a bit for the system to get to that stage.

That said, I'm designing it with the ability to ingest annotated writing samples of any sort, so it's possible that a wider range of writing types will be supported sooner than expected.