Show HN: Maxims: a scrappy embedding visualizer and commonplace book replacement
maxims.appHey HN,
I've been working on this little web-app in my spare time, in between my classes and over the summer holidays. I was frustrated by how many intersting quotes/tweets/photos I liked and then subsequently forgot. I wanted a way to keep track of all of them, and see how similar ideas and statements related to each other. Having seen https://atlas.nomic.ai/, and other text embedding visualizations (via PCA, UMAP, t-SNE), I thought this would be a fun place to start.
Here's an sharing link with some quotes I liked (mostly C.S. Lewis): https://maxims.app/share?tag=6fua96d
Features: - Image uploads (no sharing support yet)
- Tagging
- Vector-based text search
- Sharing points
- Changing dimension reduction technique
- Local first (syncing was a real pain, but it lead to a 10x speed boost)
Disclaimer: This is just a project I made for fun. It is scrappy, hacky, janky, and so forth. There may (and likely will) be undiscovered bugs and issues. Please don't put any sensitive info into here.
I hope you like it! Let me know what you think :)
- Wyatt (https://wyattsell.com) would be nice to use the app without signing in Thanks for the feedback — I wanted it to be multi-client though, so I could use it on my phone and laptop. Having it be optional is a good shout though :)