(Co-founder & CEO of Limitless) Thanks for trying it and I hope to win you back with the new features we have in the works!
As for selling data if consumers don’t want to pay for it: I commit publicly to never doing this. I will shutdown the company and return remaining capital to investors if consumers don’t want to pay for what we are building. So far, so good, and we were actually cash flow positive a few of the last few weeks.
Love your enthusiasm! Our plan is to subsume Rewind functionality into Limitless. Sorry it has taken longer than I wanted. The pendant has taken a lot of our time and focus.
Hardware is hard. We would have happily done this as a native iPhone or Watch app if it were possible. We explored that first. But, unfortunately both iOS and watchOS don't support it. In particular, anytime you listen to audio (a YouTube video, phone call, etc) it turns off the microphone and you have to remember to turn it back on.
Confidential Cloud is similar to end-to-end encryption, but with the added benefit of letting your personalized AI work for you even when you aren’t using the app.
You control who can decrypt your data
Your employer, we as software providers, and the government cannot decrypt your data without your permission, even with a subpoena to do so.
Your data is anonymized
There is an initial mapping from your application request to an anonymous ID, but after that, even we don't know whose encrypted data is whose.
Your data will never be sold
Not only do we pledge never to sell your data, but we couldn't even if we wanted to because we can't decrypt it without your permission.
Envelope encryption with unique secret keys
Data keys are used to encrypt your data and are themselves encrypted under a secret key. No one, including us, can export the secret keys.
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our existing customers, so all Rewind Pro subscribers get Limitless Pro for free.
We are shifting our focus to Limitless because we think it’s a better approach to solving the same problems. In fact, we plan to implement many of your favorite Rewind features directly in Limitless.
We are so bullish on Limitless that we decided to change our company name from Rewind to Limitless.
That said, we have no plans to stop supporting Rewind.
You can even use both products side-by-side and decide for yourself which one you like better.
It’s been 14 years since my first submission to HN and I am so grateful to this community for all your feedback & help on my first company (Optimizely) and now my second one (Rewind). Today we’re introducing Rewind for iPhone - a truly personalized AI in your pocket. I’d love your feedback!
Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)
- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.
- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.
- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.
Summarize and ask any question using AI
- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.
- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.
Private by design
- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.
- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.
On pricing: you are also right. We are thinking about new pricing & packaging that feels fairer. We're thinking about doing purely feature-based package differentiation (as opposed to tracking number of "rewinds"). Would love your thoughts or suggestions.
On muscle memory: again, you are right. Some of our users think of our product today as mostly insurance and don't actively use it every day. We hope to change that by giving them valuable things that fit into their existing daily workflow (e.g. summarizing meetings, telling you how you know the person you are about to meet with, proactively drafting emails for you based on context)
It’s been 14 years since my first submission to HN and I am so grateful to this community for all your feedback & help on my first company (Optimizely) and now my second one (Rewind). Today we’re introducing Rewind for iPhone - a truly personalized AI in your pocket. I’d love your feedback!
Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)
- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.
- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.
- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.
Summarize and ask any question using AI
- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.
- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.
Private by design
- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.
- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.
While it’s true we raised money from VCs we did not give them a board seat or voting control. I have super-voting shares and am the only member of the board. We will never be pushed around by VCs.
Our vision is to give humans perfect memory and we will not let VCs get in the way.
The key enabling technology that makes Rewind possible is Apple Silicon [0]. We utilize virtually every part of the System on a Chip (SoC) so that running Rewind doesn’t tax system resources (like CPU and memory) while it is recording. It feels virtually imperceptible.
You are right, it's a bit too aspirational right now. The "everything you say" part is just for Zoom meetings right now. Once we implement local transcription with OpenAI Whisper then I think it makes sense to expand beyond meetings to things like YouTube videos, Podcasts, Audiobooks, or anything else you might want to search by "what you've heard".
I got OpenAI Whisper running locally on my Mac but the plumbing to make it NOT tax system resources (like CPU) and to get it to work with search isn't trivial. It's on our roadmap.
If you are more comfortable removing the word Rewind and changing:
"This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I use Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
to
"This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
As for selling data if consumers don’t want to pay for it: I commit publicly to never doing this. I will shutdown the company and return remaining capital to investors if consumers don’t want to pay for what we are building. So far, so good, and we were actually cash flow positive a few of the last few weeks.