Hi HN,
I’ve been working on a project called EchoStream, and I’d love to share it with you.
As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore new products. But I started noticing that it was taking me the whole morning just to get through it all.
I began to wonder: could an AI help me read Hacker News more efficiently? Could it summarize everything so I can quickly scan through, and then dive deeper into what interests me? And more than that—could it store what I’ve seen so I can recall it later when it's relevant?
That’s the idea behind EchoStream.
EchoStream is a local AI agent that runs entirely on your iPhone. It includes a built-in thinking model to help you do more with less effort—privately and efficiently, without sending your data anywhere.
Some of its key features:
- Read and understand web pages using AI
- OCR for recognizing and processing text in images
- Automatically record, transcribe, and summarize audio
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