How it works:

- You upload a photo.

- A local vision model running entirely in your browser captions it and picks a prominent object from the image.

- You guess the word just like Wordle.

It uses a very tiny model so it is not very smart https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Florence-2-base-ft

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From a naive perspective, more usage should mean more revenue since customers pay per token. So why restrict it? If a third party is generating heavy usage, isn’t that ultimately beneficial for revenue and growth?

What other factors are they considering that are not immediately obvious? If I sold shoes, I'd be happy to sell more regardless of how many resellers are down the chain.

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For interviews, I search company-specific tags to find discussions and tips, ChatGPT makes it even easier now to extract insights from those threads. I also use it for compensation research. Occasionally, I’ll check company gossip, and I have to say, Blind has correctly predicted layoffs at my employer twice. Beneath all the noise, some people really do share valuable inside information.

That’s why I treat Blind as a data-gathering tool, not a hangout. I mainly open it for interviews, negotiations, compensation benchmarks, or to get the general sentiment around a company. Honestly, I wish they had an API like Reddit’s, it would make pulling insights so much easier.

Teamblind has been so impactful for me that I’m more than happy to pay for it. While there’s certainly noise on the platform, I’ve learned to focus on the insightful conversations and resources that matter. If you are in the US it might not be so useful, but for us outside, it is gold.

I've been on HN for way longer than Blind, but Blind had had the most impact in my career & I'm grateful for that.

With Zoom, I'm unable to do any of it because of Admin controls. Many AI notetakers exist, but few run locally, and wiring a Chrome plugin into Zoom is messy. These things are easy & possible, so it frustrates me every time I join a call.

What do you find painful about video conferencing? And if you could design a Zoom/Teams/Google Meet alternative from scratch, what would it do for you?

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Built using Electron, Ollama, and Gemma 3n, Saidia functions entirely offline and is optimised for basic hardware. It's ideal for areas with unreliable internet and power, empowering educators with powerful teaching resources where cloud-based tools are impractical or impossible.

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I’ve been working on a game idea inspired by Wordle, but with a unique twist: it uses your own photos to generate guessing words. Here’s how it works: the app picks a random picture from your gallery. It uses a small language model (SLM), running entirely on your phone, to identify a word from the image. The chosen word could describe an object, the mood, or any notable feature in the picture. You then try to guess the word, just like Wordle.

The app is entirely offline, private, and doesn’t require internet access. I’ve always been fascinated by the possibilities of small language models on devices, and I have more ideas I’d like to explore in the future.

I currently have a rough prototype ready, but developing this further is quite time-consuming as I also have a full-time job. Before investing more time into refining it, I’d love to know if this concept sounds appealing and if using your own gallery photos is something you’d find engaging.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

See screenshots here https://imgur.com/a/Rwsv7Kf

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