Show HN: AI Spotlight for Your Computer (natural language search for files)
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This looks really cool! I'm curious if you've considered swapping Gemini out for a local LLM alternative to keep costs down, especially for running it 24/7.
Iam so glad you replied, but the issue is only gemini has the particular state of art model that can embed all the multi modality inputs into same vector space.Other models cannot embed pics, texts,audio in same vector space,inorder to achieve we need multi pipeline arch, so if I swap gemini with something local models latency is increased, but I can achieve full local 24/7 working
and this api is a free tier.
I built SEARCH WIZARD — a tool that lets you search your computer using natural language.
Traditional file search only works if you remember the filename.
But most of the time we remember things like:
"the screenshot where I was in a meeting" "the PDF about transformers" "notes about machine learning"
Smart Search indexes your files and lets you search by meaning instead of filename.
Currently supports: - Images - Videos - Audio - Documents
Example query: "old photo where a man is looking at a monitor"
The system retrieves the correct file instantly.
Everything runs locally except embeddings.
I'm looking for feedback on: - indexing approaches - privacy concerns - features you'd want in a tool like this
GitHub: https://github.com/deepanmpc/SMART-SEARCH
Demo: https://deepanmpc.github.io/SMART-SEARCH/