Today is our 13th birthday.
For 13 years, we’ve built and maintained https://t.co/0JYm8g24kF independently with no institutional investors and sustained only by our members.
We’re grateful for your unwavering support.
We (quite literally) would not be celebrating our 13 years if it weren’t for you.
Introducing BeyondPDF, a smart, free, fully-local (wifi-less) PDF search app for MacOS. "Free" has always connoted to "It's free but we will steal your data"... not anymore.
Whats wrong with MacOS's Preview? It's great... but I NEED smart/semantic search. Searching for words is tedious but searching for ideas is wayy easier.
I converted a light embedding model from @huggingface to CoreML and used zero libraries (vectordb + tokenizer is all raw code)... the installer itself is 42mb lol incl. the ML model, so its light and has a reasonable footprint.
It's 99% perfect. My goal is to improve perf/UX with every release as more feedback rolls in. I urgently needed this myself and now, you can enjoy it too.
Available only on the app store (recommended, linked below) or as a .dmg from my website (also linked).
@juliagersey @ReTechbyJulia @_buildspace@_nightsweekends@FarzaTV love the idea. it reminds me of grid studio's work https://t.co/E18k37AVAZ, do you plan on preserving recognizable elements of the old tech in the art?
we come up with a product, we tell everybody about it and every person gets to vote yes or no.
and if enough people vote yes we get to come to work tomorrow.