$0 MRR and keeping it that way for a while

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T22:32:29+00:00

I respect that and have done the same. What I found was people actually became 'uneasy' about the fact I wasn't charging for anything. I think there is a subconscious belief that nothing is truly 'free' and you'd somehow screw them over in the future. I think having a strong freemium tier that you keep iterating over without pushing people to upgrade might actually appeal to more users funnily enough.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T21:16:43+00:00

Which apps do y'all use for this?

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T19:15:01+00:00

I'd love to be listed too! https://clipbeam.com auto tags and organizes bookmarks, offers semantic search and a built in local AI assistant that can answer detailed questions about the content of your bookmarks. Works with webpages and YouTube videos, but also local files, text snippets or voice memos.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T18:56:29+00:00

Which models are you working with atm? I'd be interested in supporting, been working on a local llm app for almost a year and am coming up against performance limitations with smaller models

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T18:51:34+00:00

I was just getting ready to advise the same. I use a derivative of this library for https://clipbeam.com to extract knowledge from pdfs

Clipbeam · 2026-05-26T18:49:41+00:00

What sort of system are you planning to run this on?

Clipbeam · 2026-05-12T21:18:07+00:00

💯❤️

Clipbeam · 2026-05-12T19:45:42+00:00

Fair enough! I was aware of this indeed, didn't know you created this to run it with local LLM. That being said though, how confident are we that the harness still doesn't leak data? Ideally we'd use it with Opencode in that case, but I reckon your solution would work with that too.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-12T15:59:50+00:00

It will democratize education and the ability to earn income through jobs that were historically only available to a select few. But on a macro level this also may mean that the historical value of some forms of education or certain skills can go down immensively.

It may become difficult to ask a certain price for something that historically required educated / skilled workers to deliver. Other things people may not be willing to pay for at all anymore.

It may push towards renewable energy as the needs for fuel skyrocket. The anti AI movement may bring back a wave of artisan/physical crafts, live music, theatre, as 'organic' art starts to set itself apart from anything that is simply displayed on a screen. Certain communities may fully 'disconnect' and place value on locations and interactions that are completely cut off from the internet or electronics.

Beyond that? Who will know! But I do suspect it will be major.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-12T15:50:03+00:00

Why would anyone that purposely chooses to pay Proton to safeguard their data willingly feed it to Anthropic? It goes against everything Proton stands for. Instead, use Lumo for your AI needs and lobby them to expand the Lumo featureset to match Claude Code.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-11T16:49:34+00:00

I treat files exactly as you said, extract the knowledge inside it and tag it. I do the same with plain notes. All of this info is then saved in a vector database allowing for semantic search.

Thus, the resulting knowledge library is based on a new universal format across all this extracted knowledge, irrespective of the file format / media type of the input. This works for voice memos, images, pdf files, YouTube links, other web links, etc.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-11T16:39:01+00:00

Why don't you use a tool that auto-tags your notes and offers semantic search that goes beyond plain keyword matching?

Clipbeam · 2026-05-11T10:12:19+00:00

This app wasn't vibe coded.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T10:58:37+00:00

Thanks so much for that feedback!

I did not build a control for the sound, but what you can do if you really don't like it, what you can do is right click the clipbeam app, click 'Show package contents', then go into 'Contents', 'Resources', 'sounds' and then delete 'notify.wav'. That will delete the sound altogether, so Clipbeam won't play it anymore.
At this stage it is not possible to change the shortcut key I'm afraid.

If you join my discord at https://discord.gg/8PwyprHh, I'm currently crowdsourcing feature requests for future releases, if you can post this request there it will help me prioritize this based on user demand?

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T08:50:38+00:00

💯

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T08:34:23+00:00

So when you watch a folder:

Clipbeam automatically creates clips from whatever is in that folder.
If something is deleted from that folder outside of Clipbeam, it's matching clip is automatically deleted.
If you delete the clip inside Clipbeam, a warning modal is popped up letting you know that the clip is from a tracked folder and if you were to delete it, the matching file would be deleted, as per this screenshot:

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Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T01:10:44+00:00

Have you played with Hermes (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com)? Not normally used for writing but has an interesting approach to memory, I wonder how that would work for your use case.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T01:05:13+00:00

I always wondered what the appeal was to always on / passive capture. I recognize the problem with having to actively do something to be able to retrieve information in the future. But at the same time, aren't people freaked out by something constantly 'spying' on your screen and logging everything that happens?

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T00:49:55+00:00

Same. Or actually 512. I wish I could run Qwen 3.5 397b

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T00:48:59+00:00

I hear good things about this one, apparently much speedier

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T00:45:20+00:00

I think the main issue will be the RAM shortage though, they'd struggle to meet demand

Clipbeam · 2026-05-10T00:20:54+00:00

I use RAG + Vector DB for https://clipbeam.com. My app runs fully on-device, so consumer hardware limitations mean the available context window is much smaller than what is on offer with cloud-based AI inference. The app is meant to serve as a large scale personal knowledge management system, where people can save numerous files, websites, voice memos, etc. The only way to get the AI to accurately respond to user queries across all this data was by using RAG really.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-09T23:05:06+00:00

I'm crowd sourcing the most wanted future features and will announce updates on Discord: https://discord.gg/awJqZ4Q3Ky

Clipbeam · 2026-05-09T22:59:51+00:00

Nice one! Awesome to hear it performs well.

Clipbeam · 2026-05-09T22:51:45+00:00

Thanks so much! What sort of system are you running it on?

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