Show HN: HiccupAI – Your personal fellow for your thoughts, ideas, and memories

Show HN: HiccupAI – Your personal fellow for your thoughts, ideas, and memories(hiccup.ing)

4 points by 0zwan 2 years ago | 4 comments

Hi HN!

We're two indie developers excited to introduce you to Hiccup. Often, we found ourselves tangled in our own everyday problems and set out to solve them, leading to the birth of this app.

Hiccup is a simple mobile application; core functionalities allow you to jot down notes, set silent reminders, and dump any and all thoughts that are crowding your mind. It uses language models to sift through your notes, extracting answers and forging connections between them. Think of it as having a personal AI memory that understands the chaos of your thoughts, akin to a 'Shazam for your brain'.

A cornerstone of our philosophy is privacy and user trust. To that end, Hiccup operates with a strict policy: Your notes are yours alone. We have no interest in storing them on our servers, tracking your app activity, or incorporating any intrusive features that we ourselves wouldn't want to use.

It's still early days for us, but we're eager to share Hiccup with a wider audience like you. App currently only available in the App Store for iOS devices :>

https://apps.apple.com/en/app/hiccup-ai/id6474674651

Thanks!

marvion 2 years ago |

I don't want to spread negative vibes, but this feels like a phishing test website.

The only real details about the app/product it that it cost 3$ for 250 in-game tokens. It's not even clear how long they last.

I guess it is on purpose, so people just click the app-store button... but the lack of details is astonishing.

The landing page claims "all your data remains locally on your phone, without compromise." but the about pages mentions OpenAI... so it's a wrapper for a custom GPT that gets fed anonymized chats?

Anyway, for fellow windows and android users you get Screenshots here: https://www.fnd.io/#/us/iphone-app/6474674651-hiccup-ai-by-o...

0zwan 2 years ago | |

Credits do not have an expiration time and depend on your usage; their duration is determined by your activity level. Typically, a question consumes approximately 0.3 credits. For instance, if you ask 3 questions per day, it will total around 30 credits per month. Initially, each user receives a free 50-credit. With normal usage patterns, it takes months before credits are run out. Also, we don't charge for entering new notes; credits are only spend during inference processes. With credit-based usage, you aren't required to pay when inactive, no commitment. The system is cost-effective in terms of usage duration. We operate on a nearly non-profit basis :)

None of your notes are stored on our server; they remain locally stored on your phone. We exclusively offer Apple sign-in to ensure users can conceal their email addresses, maintaining complete anonymity towards our server. However, for inference purposes, some data is transmitted to OpenAI or other language model providers(we will soon offer users the choice between our open-source model and commercial model options). There is no viable method to run a suitable language model on a mobile device; while there have been attempts, none have met the quality standards required for inference. We are actively exploring options to facilitate inference directly on the phone, and we hope to offer this functionality soon. Lastly, we get your positive vibes, we will update our website as well :)

Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it.

TiredGuy 2 years ago |

I was about to download this but then realized it's only for Apple! Are you planning on having an Android release?

Also on that front intro page I don't see any link anywhere that actually takes you to the apple app store to download the app. I thought the "App" link at the top might but it just takes me to another description section.

0zwan 2 years ago | |

We are developing native apps and have limited resources. Therefore, we had to focus on a single platform at a time. However, we will release an Android version soon. We have a download badge on the homepage, but I will ensure it is visible. Thanks for comment!