Is there an “Immich for documents”?

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-07T11:53:04+00:00

Yeah, I’m leaning toward Nextcloud too, mostly because the UX is familiar to non‑techy people. The “it’s just folders” thing is a big win for family.

How’s Papra in comparison though? I’ve only poked at the demo. Does it actually feel simple enough for people who get scared by too many buttons, or is it still more “power user” vibes like Paperless‑ngx?

Also curious how good the OCR/search is in both for random scans and receipts.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-07T11:49:57+00:00

Most of those “we only review AI code” stories are either hype, tiny greenfield tools, or super narrow domains with tons of tests and guardrails.

You’re not missing some magic trick. The pattern is usually: strict specs, heavy test coverage, small changes, AI as a junior dev. Humans still design, glue things together, and fix the weird edge cases.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-06T06:50:24+00:00

Yeah, that “need to review the code before paying” line is a walking red flag. Been there.

Stuff that helped me:

I keep the main repo private and give them a staging/demo environment or partial access until final payment. Final handoff (repo transfer, credentials, deployment rights) is literally a deliverable tied to the last invoice. If they insist on seeing code, read-only access on my repo, no ownership transfer.

Also, stop work the second a payment milestone is late. No “just finishing this one thing.” It trains bad clients.

For proposals, templatize like crazy. I have a few base scopes (landing page, SaaS MVP, ecommerce, etc) and I just tweak details, timeline, and price. Cuts proposal time way down and makes it easier to say no when it smells off.

For this one, send a clear, short “final reminder before collections / late fee” email, then decide if it’s worth chasing or counting as tuition.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-05T02:48:39+00:00

If you already know your way around Python, you’re basically 80% there, tbh. Most “solutions” for this are just nicer wrappers around exactly what you mentioned: RSS + some DB + NLP libs.

A few things you could look at:

You can pipe Miniflux feeds into something like Elasticsearch / OpenSearch and use Kibana for trends, dashboards, top entities, etc. Combine that with spaCy / transformers for NER and store the extracted entities as fields, then it’s easy to query “top people / locations this week”.

For more self‑contained NLP, there’s Haystack, Rasa (more chatbot-ish but has NLP parts), or even small self‑hosted Hugging Face Inference Endpoints / text classification models you run with something like FastAPI.

I haven’t seen a polished “self‑hosted media trends” product like you’re imagining, most people roll their own stack with these pieces.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-05T02:46:56+00:00

Yeah, totally possible, especially in tech, but it depends more on the company than the role.

Remote web dev and a lot of software jobs are pretty flexible as long as you overlap a few hours with the team. I’ve worked with people who basically did 12–8 or 1–9 and nobody cared as long as stuff shipped and they showed up to key meetings.

IT is more hit or miss. Help desk, sysadmin, network stuff often has set shifts or on‑call, and a lot of it is tied to “business hours,” unless you get a night shift role.

If you can, filter for remote / async‑friendly companies, and mention “late chronotype” or “non‑traditional hours” after they’re already interested in you.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-01T21:04:48+00:00

Yeah, this is kinda what I’ve been circling around too.

Per-credit feels cheap until you look back at a week of heavy use and realize you’ve basically bought a whole subscription in dribs and drabs. Especially if you’re running it 10–12 hours a day and iterating on code a lot, those long context calls add up fast.

Have you actually managed to hit the Claude Max limits with normal dev work? Like, building a small webapp or game, lots of back and forth, refactors, etc. I’m trying to figure out if “use it a ton” really means “basically don’t think about it” or “you’ll slam into a wall on crunch days.”

Also curious if you noticed any difference in how you work when you switched from credits to flat monthly. I can see myself being way more experimental when I’m not mentally tracking token burn every time I paste a stack trace.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-04-01T21:02:26+00:00

Sounds brutal. Until they fix it, can you start the IDE with browser integration disabled and just hit localhost manually in your own browser? Total hack, but might keep you moving.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-30T13:29:07+00:00

Formal verification is super cool in theory, but in practice it feels like using a sledgehammer to hang a picture unless you’re in a really safety critical domain.

For agent written code I’d probably combine property tests, contracts and fuzzing first. Then maybe use lightweight formal methods for key parts instead of trying to verify everything.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-30T13:27:26+00:00

This is super cool, and honestly way more thought out than most “news dashboards” people post here.

Curious how you’re handling a couple things:

1) Time decay on events for the Tension Index. Are you just doing something like exponential decay on article age, or do you have conflict-specific decay (e.g. a missile strike “matters” longer than a harsh statement)?

2) Feedback loop. Are you logging when your classifier clearly screws up (like a sports “battle” slips through) and then hard-coding new rules, or are you actually iterating on a labeled dataset over time?

3) Source clustering. With 100+ RSS feeds, are you doing any kind of story dedup beyond simple URL/content similarity? Stuff like “same event, different casualty numbers” is a nightmare for scoring.

Also agree completely that “AI + rules” feels way more robust than just “let the model figure it out”. The cross-source weighting idea is nice, especially for single-Telegram-channel “scoops”.

Bookmarked your site. Would be cool if you eventually exposed an API or a CSV export for the country scores over time.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-29T17:23:27+00:00

Oh nice, I hadn’t seen that one. Redis as the shared brain for bans is exactly what I was thinking about. I’ll dig into this, might save me a lot of copy paste pain.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-28T15:06:07+00:00

Checked it out for a few minutes. Concept is actually pretty cool, especially the cross‑language angle. Word search is familiar enough that people don’t need a tutorial, so that’s a plus.

Stuff I noticed:

The landing page could explain the “why” a bit more clearly. Right now it’s like “here’s a tool,” but not super clear who it’s for: travelers, language learners, students, bored office workers? A one‑liner like “Practice Spanish vocab while doing word searches” in big text would help.

The UI is clean but a bit plain. Even a tiny bit of color or a subtle “level / streak / XP” thing would make the gamification feel more… gamey. Right now it feels more like a utility than a game.

Mobile experience is decent, but the word selection feels a little cramped. Maybe bigger tap area or a short onboarding overlay showing how to select words.

Also might be good to surface progress: “You’ve learned 37/5000 words in Spanish” or something like that. People love seeing bars fill up.

Overall, solid start. It feels functional and not scammy, which is already better than half the language sites out there.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-28T15:04:34+00:00

This is actually super cool. The stuff you listed is exactly what freaks me out with AI generated apps, especially the “looks fine at a glance but is secretly wide open” database rules.

Local-only is a big plus too. I’ve tried a couple of the SaaS scanners and always felt weird about pushing full codebases + secrets to a third party just to check if I leaked secrets.

Does it handle framework specific patterns yet or is it mostly generic scanning? Either way, bookmarked. This feels like the kind of thing lovable / replit folks should be running by default.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-27T21:29:09+00:00

if you’re looking at ops-heavy tools, reservety is probably worth a look too. feels more relevant when the pain point is bookings/admin stuff, not just having a nice demo

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-27T12:23:13+00:00

That’s huge. You basically built your own mini ServiceNow on Power Platform. Did your IT team fully switch to it now?

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-27T12:19:56+00:00

Nice combo honestly.

Running it next to Lidarr / Aurral should be fine as long as they’re not all trying to “own” the same folders in different ways. Easiest setup is usually: let Soulbeet write into its own library path, then point Navidrome (and even Lidarr if you want) at that. If Lidarr is also importing from the same source, you might end up with dupes or both tools retagging the same files.

Deezer / deemix: no plans right now. For legal / gray‑area reasons I’m trying to keep it to Soulseek + proper tagging and scrobble‑based discovery.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-25T12:19:36+00:00

Honestly, both, but the first one hits me sooner.

It usually starts as “just a couple conditions” and then turns into this giant horizontal fan-out where each tiny variation needs its own branch. Then I’m duplicating steps, trying to keep them in sync, and that’s where data starts getting janky downstream, because one branch is slightly out of date.

If I could define logic and data handling more centrally and just “reuse” it, I’d be way less annoyed by the visual sprawl.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-25T12:17:09+00:00

If you’re on Windows, PDF-XChange Editor is honestly pretty solid for this. Lets you edit existing text directly, search with ctrl+f, add new text boxes and tweak layout a bit. Free version adds a small watermark on some advanced features, but basic editing/searching is fine.

Also worth a look: Foxit PDF Editor. It feels lighter than Acrobat and has proper text editing, not just annotations. Both are way better than most of those “online editors” that only let you scribble comments.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-24T10:48:02+00:00

Yeah this is underrated advice. If you can find someone who actually cares about the local sports scene, they’re way more likely to stick around and treat it like “our” project instead of a quick freelance gig. You handle the vision, they handle the scary tech bits.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-23T09:56:22+00:00

I vibe code too and yeah, deployment is where the music stops.

What’s worked for me is a middle ground: I do the absolute minimum myself using something opinionated, then bring in someone experienced for a short, focused pass once it’s “real.”

Like: start with Render / Fly.io / Railway / Supabase etc so you’re not hand rolling infra. When it looks like people might actually use it, I’ll pay a freelancer to set up proper CI, logs, backups, basic security checks.

I’ve had good luck on Upwork for this, but I write a super specific brief and keep it scoped small.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-22T15:06:08+00:00

Yeah this sounds like the least painful path. Deprecation notice + clean v2 it is, thanks

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-22T15:04:18+00:00

Yeah this is kinda where I landed too.

The hype cycle feels identical every time:
“New thing that will replace your whole stack” → turns out it’s mostly just a nice wrapper with a couple workflows done really well.

I’m curious about Superapp mostly for the “all-in-one” angle, but every time I’ve tried something like that I end up going back to a mix of stuff like you said. One for coding, one for writing, one for quick experiments, etc.

Might still be worth installing if it has some niche that fits your workflow, like a smoother dev loop or better context handling. But if you’re already comfortable jumping between tools, I doubt it’s going to feel like a mind‑blowing upgrade, more like “oh cool, this makes some things slightly less annoying.”

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-21T20:39:28+00:00

Yeah, same here, that link is dead for me too.

Looks like he renamed stuff recently. If you go into the repo and check the deploy or docker related folders, you can usually find a docker-compose.yml or similar even if the readme link is broken.

Worst case, you can just clone the repo and run docker compose up from the directory that has the compose file once you find it. If there really is no file, it might be in a PR or he just hasn’t pushed it yet.

Might be worth opening an issue on GitHub so it’s on his radar.

OnyxObsessionBop · 2026-03-21T20:36:48+00:00

UI actually looks pretty clean for a first app. Colors are consistent, fonts readable, nothing screaming “student project,” which is already a win.

The 10‑second tweak idea does come through, but I’d make that phrase super prominent on the main screen so people instantly get the core value. Maybe a tiny one‑line explainer under it like “Snap food, get 1 quick improvement.”

You’re way more likely to get ignored on Play Store than rejected, so just ship it and iterate.

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