[HN Gopher] Show HN: Littlebird - Screenreading is the missing l...
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Show HN: Littlebird - Screenreading is the missing link in AI
Author : delu
Score : 30 points
Date : 2026-03-23 17:39 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| wolfduck wrote:
| Looks cool! Reminds me of Rewind but better. (edit: for
| completion)
| grena1re wrote:
| Hi all, I'm Alex, one of the founders at Littlebird. AMA!
| winterbloom wrote:
| Does your company actually look at resumes? you post in HN but
| nothing ever goes through. I have a feeling that your
| recruitment team is not doing their job properly (or being
| super selective)
| grena1re wrote:
| Littlebird is a desktop app that remembers everything you've been
| working on. Meetings, messages, docs, browsing, etc. It helps you
| stay focused, prioritize, recall, and move projects forward.
| Unlike any product on the market today, Littlebird uses
| screenreading to understand all the text on screen, for all
| applications, without any cumbersome setup. It understands who
| said what, when, and keeps track of your projects in great
| detail. It uses that context to build a rich understanding of
| your life: who matters to you, what you're working on, and what
| you care about this week and this year. It extends your working
| memory and your capacity to think and create.
|
| You control what Littlebird sees, what it remembers, and what it
| forgets. We designed Littlebird to be private, secure, and user-
| controlled by default.
| anonhn58 wrote:
| Hi folks, Tushar here from the engineering team at Littlebird.
| AMA!
| ycyash wrote:
| tried this last week. typed three words, got back a full
| breakdown that pulled from three different tools i'd had open.
| didn't brief it once.
|
| Good tool. Any plans for Windows ? It's my main workstation.
| antonholub wrote:
| hey! yes, version for Windows is in active development and if
| everything is fine it will got to beta soon.
| rsingel wrote:
| If you thought Slack logs were damning in discovery, wait til
| someone suing or prosecuting you figures out that everything you
| typed and looked at, etc., is in the cloud
| divmain wrote:
| Is there any chance you might support a local-first version of
| this in the future? I've been interested in apps like this and
| Littlebird in particular seems very attractive. But I'm loathe to
| essentially send screenshots/summaries/etc of all my activity to
| a cloud solution, regardless of any claims you make about
| encryption. Any mistake you make could be catastrophic for me,
| which thoroughly dominates any upside to using your product. It's
| a non-starter.
| grena1re wrote:
| We will for sure, but the issue is that without local LLMs,
| there's no way to offer a truly fully local version. And the
| local LLMs are dumb. So basically, you would still need to
| trust the LLM providers. Totally understand that this is a deal
| breaker for some people, but for many users, the theoretical
| risk is worth it. We do regular security audits, encrypt in
| transit and at rest, pen tests, etc.
| throwaway-blaze wrote:
| Um, dismissing the tech as "the local LLMs are dumb" seems
| shortsighted. I can run some pretty impressive models on my
| local Mac, but it has >64gb of ram and an M3 Max.
|
| Given the privacy benefit I wouldn't dismiss them so fast.
| I'd suggest picking one or two that your prompts will work
| well with and treating it as "we let you run with local
| models too, if you have a computer capable of that." This
| will (a) quiet the people who complain about everything and
| (b) get more people to try the cloud model knowing they could
| move to a local model for real usage.
| reasonmethis wrote:
| Hey, I'm Dmitriy from Littlebird. For your use case, would you
| want the underlying LLM to be local as well, so that your data
| doesn't get sent to the "big dog" LLM providers? It's an
| important consideration because it wouldn't be nearly as smart
| then - though I totally understand if that's the only way it
| could work for you.
|
| We are SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant btw.
| timwis wrote:
| I'm not the OP but I came here to voice the same concern. I
| would _love_ to use something like this. I also signed up for
| rewind.ai and Limitless and pre-ordered the pendant. But
| ultimately I cancelled it out of privacy concerns.
|
| I wonder if it could be local storage and you could provide
| your own Open Router endpoint? That way it could be a local
| model or your own deployment of GPT/Claude in
| Azure/Bedrock/Vertex etc where you can control retention
| policies etc.
|
| Basically, I want to know that you guys don't have access to
| view my stuff. I get that that limits your ability to improve
| the product and support issues, but when I'm sending
| _everything_ it really starts to matter. Just thought I 'd
| share what held me back from immediately signing up despite
| really wanting to use a product like this!
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