Show HN: Snapsked – Turn screenshots & photos into action items on calendar

Show HN: Snapsked – Turn screenshots & photos into action items on calendar(snapsked.org)

1 points by notnotrishi 2 years ago | 3 comments

Like many, I save a ton of screenshots and photos to remember things -- and then forget lol.

Snapsked is a simple tool that takes images, extracts action items, and syncs to your calendar automatically.

Some real-life examples: https://bit.ly/snapskeddemo

It’s a small step towards an ambitious idea I’ve had for a while (see background in the comment below if interested): What if an AI could look what you’re looking at (your screens, handwritten notes etc.) while you’re working; understood relevant action items; and helped with things on demand? Just like having a peer look over your shoulder to help when needed.

I know it feels like it should be easy to build something like this with vision models available today, but there is one key issue: Models like GPT-4V, even when they work reliably, get expensive soon and are not ideal for end-user use-cases. I spent the last few months working on addressing this key technical problem, and I’ve been able to build an inference flow that works reliably at ~1/10th of the cost of GPT-4V, for this specific use case; thus making it affordable for many today.

I'm looking for early users and useful feedback. Sign up at snapsked.org and follow x.com/snapsked for updates.

Also open for any questions here or on my personal X/Twitter (same id as my HN).

notnotrishi 2 years ago |

Also a bit of a background --

2018-19: I started working on the problem of automatically extracting all action items from all tools I use (email, slack, GitHub etc.), and getting them in one place. I’d built a few different solutions using NLP (using techniques available back then). Things sort-of worked, but there were always so many edge cases — early users churned soon.

2020-21: Graduate student at an AI lab — Mila, Quebec (dropped out eventually) — went there primarily to learn new techniques to build some thing in this space. Around mid-2021 I decided to put this on hold, and went on to work at Beeper (beeper.com) till recently.

mdrzn 2 years ago |

The sign up page is a Google Form? And you ask "What are you comfortable paying per month"? Is there even a real product or is this just a landing page to collect data?

notnotrishi 2 years ago | |

The screenshots included above are from real use. It's not 100% there but as mentioned on the form it's early access for people who are comfortable with bugs etc, and not just a landing page to collect data.