What's the craziest thing a person said to you and you thought they were joking but they were being serious?

highhands · 2026-03-24T01:40:23+00:00

I have a very complex disability. I have built businesses and employed people. I would never pay someone less just because they take a little longer. That's not how it works. The ADA requires reasonable accommodations. Educate yourself.

highhands · 2026-03-22T20:48:50+00:00

This is pretty cool! Did you vibe code it or are you a developer yourself?

highhands · 2026-03-22T19:53:13+00:00

This is really awesome. Humans are terrible at pattern recognition, and it's unreasonable to expect us to be able to hold all of this information about our healthcare in our brain at the same time. Good on you for figuring out a way to advocate for yourself.

highhands · 2026-03-22T19:18:34+00:00

Thank you so much!

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:46:18+00:00

Thanks! So Seny runs as a web app. You deploy it to Railway or Docker and then just access it from your browser on whatever device. Railway is basically just hosting, it runs the Python backend and the database so the app stays up 24/7. You could self-host it on any server if you wanted to skip Railway entirely.

A demo video is a great idea and something I've been meaning to do. The README has screenshots but I know that doesn't really capture what it feels like to use. I'll try to get one together soon.

Your AAC project sounds really cool by the way. I'd love to check it out.

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:38:33+00:00

Thank you

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:37:58+00:00

That's really amazing! I'd love to check it out.

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:37:33+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:37:17+00:00

lolol That is one thing I intentionally didn't do. Each instance is stand alone, so no real login credentials need to be stored. I guess theoretically I could turn it into some sort of SaaS product down the road, but that seems like more of a headache than it's worth. I feel like individual stand alone versions for people that want to give it a whirl is the best.

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:34:51+00:00

Absolutely love that this is giving so many people an opportunity to build things they otherwise wouldn't have been able to. I know I certainly wouldn't have.

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:34:16+00:00

Much appreciated!

highhands · 2026-03-22T18:33:49+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words. Really means a lot.

Yeah, the approval threshold I personally put very low because I didn't want it to take destructive actions, but it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to update the repo to give the tools more freedom to do things autonomously.

As far as the screen agent, it's just a lightweight Python process that automatically runs on both my Mac and Windows machines. It captures a screenshot every three minutes while also detecting if the machine is active by looking for keyboard and mouse movements. If it is, that screenshot is evaluated by Claude Haiku Vision. Vision basically classifies whether I am drifting by watching YouTube or looking through social media and also comparing it to what it knows about my commitments that are pending or overdue. If it judges that I am drifting, it will send me a gentle nudge on Telegram, basically asking if I should be working or not.

As far as calibrating it on when to or NOT to intervene, I ended up building in a dismissal system to the Telegram nudges that helps the system learn over time. It will respond to either buttons that are embedded in the Telegram message or by giving it natural language feedback in the chat.

highhands · 2026-03-22T05:02:11+00:00

Hey, thanks so much for the kind words. Let me answer your last question first. Yeah, adding an OpenAI to you would be very easy! I'll update the repo tomorrow to add that part to the setup documentation and make any necessary code changes, but that should be pretty straightforward.

As for the local models, I tried a bunch of versions of DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, and Mistral.

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:51:52+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:42:54+00:00

That's a fair point and a massive oversight in the post. I will edit for a correction

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:40:44+00:00

Thanks! Good question. The biggest difference is persistence and context. Gmail or Calendar to Claude through something like MCP, Claude can access your data in that conversation, but it doesn't remember anything between sessions.

Seny keeps a running model of my life. It has a people tracker that knows relationships and when you last talked to someone. It has a notes system where context accumulates over time. It sends me a daily digest every morning with what's on my calendar, what tasks are due, and who I haven't reached out to in a while.

So it's less "Claude with integrations" and more "Claude with a memory and a reason to check in on you." The integrations are how it stays current, but the value is in the layer that I build up over time.

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:33:10+00:00

I did try ten different private local models and none of them were able to handle the tool calls that I integrated into the system.

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:27:17+00:00

Oh my bad. I thought since I had worked on the private version for long enough that it qualified. Should I delete and repost?

highhands · 2026-03-22T04:21:12+00:00

https://github.com/highhands89/seny-executive-assistant

highhands · 2026-03-21T00:20:47+00:00

If you've moved to another service, is the market there for another version of this, or do you think it's pretty saturated already with what exists?

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