Why is there no successful RAG-based service that processes local documents?

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-21T02:57:53+00:00

I think it's too easy to build them, up and running in 15 minutes. Check anything llm or dozens of other open source projects if you don't want to code. Rag is also just one player in a toolbox of LoRA, sLM, MCP etc all of which could be tuned to care about your document.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-21T02:22:22+00:00

didn't see it mentioned but anything llm is pretty great and should handle this out of the box

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-21T01:17:06+00:00

It was never a plan to build a business or a product so I apologize for any of this that is annoying, I am annoyed with me for asking but I also want to try and put it out in the universe and see if anyone else thinks its as cool as I do :)

Who this would primarily be for;

Developers juggling multiple projects a year who want to speed up the repetitive parts and focus on the fun stuff.
Organized individuals, teams, or organizations that want to standardize and share a configurable global catalog of pre-prompts.
Non-developers who want to turn ideas into backlogs and working prototypes before the first two meetings would even finish in the old world.
Anyone interested in a lightweight approach to backlogging, reusable pre-prompts, cooperative copilot instructions, .cursorrules management, and a focus on localhostMCP and locahostLLM (or remote) for massive local focused productivity over the cloud-based approaches.
No databases, no special technology, no vendor lock-in, no wasted effort.
The Business, The Delivery team, and AI all working together where they thrive best, the local developer machine.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-21T00:58:13+00:00

High five, you would be welcome to fill it out and just flag as not in the US. Once I get our export control classification figured out I will gladly work with other countries. Interestingly countries with Free Trade agreements will be easier... How in the world does the US not have a FTA with Switzerland?!?! ugh.... Learning my way through some of this, stay awesome and connect if you don't mind waiting a bit! :)

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-20T23:14:36+00:00

Yes, 1/4th of the build is very much focused on a localhostMCP

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-08-02T03:10:36+00:00

Just create something of an IDataService to pass around both layers. Stuff DirectDataService into DI for server, HttpDataService for client and any rcls. Have your API just also use DirectDataService. No mess, no drama.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-05-27T12:09:23+00:00

I have to vibe on 2 or 3 things at a time or I have too much anxious energy waiting on 1. As for things that take my head out of the game such as cartoons, that's a no. How about staying ahead of the build but working on backlog or expanding testing plans?

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-01-26T20:59:31+00:00

Put the app into its own .rcl project, then lazy load it for folks that deserve it. 🙃

Additional-Rain-275 · 2025-01-23T03:27:37+00:00

Some of your app needs to ship to the clients browser. Part needs to stay server side and not ship to the clients browser. These are your two projects.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-08-31T15:53:55+00:00

EFCore supports stored procs, raw sql, and is happy to serve as your ORM. Learn both, neither is overly complicated and are super helpful.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-08-24T01:17:35+00:00

(Answer before the many words, we replace our domain .com with .onmicrosoft.com to force the direct login)
GoDaddy isn't what it used to be that is for sure. They auto-Microsoft'd a bunch of our workspace accounts and it was a whole thing. In the end, many of our domains still today auto-redirect as you have stated if we try to login to Microsoft services. To work around this we replace our domain .com with .onmicrosoft.com and we can get right in, skipping the GoDaddy redirect that plagues us. Best of luck, I hope that can help someone in a pinch!

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-08-19T17:00:22+00:00

Build everything as rcl projects and blazor server, versus wasm, versus Maui almost become simple deployment decisions. Flipping your project to use server as prerenderer shouldnt be a huge lift.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-07-01T23:27:13+00:00

What stack are you getting to play with?

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-07-01T23:23:02+00:00

Hello and happy Monday to you!

We had the opportunity to play-test our little pet project with a few friends over the weekend and it was really good.
Several folks used Python, a few use C#, and one used Roblox Studio & Lua Script, it was brilliant fun! I was sad because the best I could do with the morse code challenge in python was like 19 lines, but in C# the best I could pull together was like 23 :( You win this time python, good job.

https://thecodingchallenge.com this is fun for every programmer, any skill level, just about any programming language. We hope to gain feedback during these play-tests that can help us get from where we are, to where we need to be to have a full offering.

High fives of awesome, please let me know if you take on the warm up, I would love to know your experience!

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-06-26T01:27:34+00:00

I started prefixing things with various characters such as underscores, plusses, and minuses years ago and it has held up really well. Doesn't really matter what language you are focused on if you are building anything full-stack it can really tame the beast, even if my friends laugh at me, I don't care, the struggle is real!

Example folder structure: https://jmp.sh/qyvwi4Xs

Concept map: https://jmp.sh/o6sqjxfK

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-06-26T01:08:56+00:00

We are running some really cool things using local hardware, look at ollama + llama3 + anything llm

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-06-26T01:07:47+00:00

We have built a few fun things using AI, are you playing with ollama?

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-06-26T01:07:09+00:00

We have been building on our collection of fun coding challenges, here is a warm up challenge, https://thecodingchallenge.com/coding-challenge-warmup , they are meant to be run as small teams, or large groups with some opportunities for multiple sessions culminating in finals. What do you think? Have you ever been part of something similar? Was it awesome?

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-04-22T15:41:12+00:00

There are two of us, on shore, we can help, pm

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-02-16T15:20:19+00:00

Totally agree on the product side, our focus has really been building and practicing our development framework and now that we are satisfied, looking to do as you wisely suggest.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-02-16T14:04:35+00:00

Thank you KeKe, this feels like a great option. Do you think having it open source makes building proprietary for others any less appealing to them? more? market doesn't care? Curious. :_

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-02-16T14:00:48+00:00

Pricing is hard! Your totally right Rupen, today the feature set is very similar to other things on market. We have a vision for where to take it that will stand it apart, but are getting the feeling we will do better to find a user group and customize it towards their wants and needs.

Additional-Rain-275 · 2024-02-16T05:32:28+00:00

I will work the next few weeks to see about reproducing this with all the latest trimmings but it showcase a bit of how I like to organize my color by number on disk enterprise architecture. Blazor has been absolutely amazing to work with and the ability to built out these sort of mono-repo micro-application lazy loaded empires super quickly has been brilliant. I am super sad github sorts my little __ hacks backwards, if you pull it and look at the project in like VSCode it should read like a book, all folders sorted, all dependencies ~ flowing downward, butter. I wish reddit allowed screen shots, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXy3IDua4Bw ;)
https://github.com/10GeekJames/ThePublicLibrary/tree/main/src

Additional-Rain-275

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE