. @MKBHD liked my intern project at apple!! I worked on bringing widgets to visionOS.
I prototyped pinning widgets to surfaces and making them feel like 3D furniture in your home. Check it out:
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I built AI autocompletion that can be activated by typing "+++" anywhere on your Mac.
It’s context aware too — i.e. activating in Messages will write a short reply based on recent chat history. Activating in Gmail will draft an email based on subject line and recipient.
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I’ve been building an AI-powered document reader.
First feature is fast semantic search over any PDF (even entire books!)
You can ask an abstract question and get direct quotes that answer it.
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I’m creating a search engine that remembers everything on your screen and lets you ask abstract questions over all your data.
Not only that, I’ve developed AI that re-opens any indexed content in its original app.
Watch Boundless retrieve an Apple note with its virtual cursor:
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Meet Iris — a macOS app that makes it easy to multitask with AI.
Over the last year, I’ve been exploring how we can evolve the desktop OS. This is the first small step :)
You can download Iris now at iris.fun
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I proposed and prototyped interactive widgets @apple in 2021!! I can’t believe it shipped. Feels so surreal.
Huge shoutout to the SwiftUI team ❤️
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I've been prototyping ways to interact with AI that feel more natural than text-in, text-out.
Watch me communicate by talking and "pointing" to things on my screen.
(Volume up!)
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This is Iris, an AI with the sense of sight. You can chat about anything on your screen.
Waitlist: boundless.so/iris
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Been using ChatGPT to help write a final paper and it’s much less useful than I thought.
The process of repeatedly tweaking prompts then heavily editing the output is slower than writing on my own.
Ended up deleting everything and starting again from scratch.
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Toying around with OS level multiplayer...
(you might need to zoom into the video!)
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Connecting ideas together is a crucial part of thinking.
Note taking apps like @RoamResearch help spark new connections by grouping related notes via 2-way links.
But why stop at notes?
I can now bidirectionally link anything across my entire OS.
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A lotta people are asking me to release this, but there's still quite a bit of work left to get it to that level.
If you're experienced in SwiftUI/AppKit and wanna collab on this over some weekends, hmu! Especially if you're based in SF and down to work in person :)
There are definitely some tricky problems left to solve to make the experience excellent, including:
• Display multiple app folders simultaneously
• Performant, custom drag/drop implementation to rearrange apps
• If you customize an app's icon, display the custom icon instead of the stock one.
• Auto adapt dock icon to light/dark mode
• Hide dock icons of running apps if they are contained in folder (stretch goal for sure)
• Set a global keyboard shortcut to open an app folder, and use 1-9 on keyboard to open app inside it (probably stretch goal also)
• Handle different dock positions and multiple monitors
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I’m so grateful I got the chance to work on Vision Pro before it released. Crazy to experience the magic being created from behind the scenes.
The AR/VR frameworks team has done phenomenal work to bring this to life :)
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We've been working on adding widgets to Iris — mini apps that appear within the chat thread.
Today we're launching the first one, the "proofread widget."
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NOW HIRING AT @INTERFACECLUBHQ!!!
We're creating an AI layer on top of macOS that helps you get things done faster.
Looking for founding team members:
• A native SwiftUI/AppKit engineer
• An AI infrastructure engineer
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Oh that me. The thing I index for most is the visceral feeling that I will use something daily. That’s my primary compass for figuring out what product/features to build.
Talked to an amazing engineer who spent the past year building AI app prototypes until he found one that worked.
Me: what did you learn from iterating so quickly, in public?
Him: the products that actually got usage and traction were inversely correlated with most likes on X 🙃
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Just sent the first batch of sagereader.com beta invites!!
I’ve been building an AI-powered document reader.
First feature is fast semantic search over any PDF (even entire books!)
You can ask an abstract question and get direct quotes that answer it.
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It’s still a work in progress, but Boundless will mark the death of folders/tags and the start of your computer becoming a true extended mind.
Your memory will feel infinite.
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one more thing for tonight: thanks to reduced gpt-4 api costs, Iris has friendlier pricing.
Instead of $20/mo for Pro, now it's $10/mo.
Instead of $8/mo for Basic, now it's free.
And all existing subscribers are automatically grandfathered in at $8/mo for pro!
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Voice mode on the ChatGPT mac app demos well, but the UX isn't great.
On desktop, ChatGPT shouldn't speak back to you. It's faster to read text vs listen to it
And auto-responding when it detects a pause in your voice is neat, but means you don’t get time to think while speaking
So we made our new voice feature in Iris simple. It's toggle on, toggle off. You get text output instead of a fancy AI voice. It's not as demo-able, but far more useful (but don't take my word for it, try it and judge for yourself! 🙃)
You can now speak to Iris, and even show Iris screenshots while you talk!
Here's a quick demo analyzing this fun painting by pieter bruegel:
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looks like they used design from subform?
nitter.app/bnj/status/18237848458…
check out subform.ai, free to use w your own api key as well
Ben South
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I honestly expected like 2 people to see this.
You can request access here: sagereader.com
Thanks for the support 🥲
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also since we are getting an influx of new Iris users:
I wanna clarify that this is a prototype for an upcoming release — it is not included in the current shipped version of the product
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If you’re like me, you’ve spent too much time organizing, writing, and saving things you’ll never reference again because it’s inaccessible.
Now it can all be resurfaced — instantly — exactly when you need it.
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throwback to AI cursor demos lol
Ronith
OpenAI just acquired this startup that basically lets someone remotely control your computer...
i think we can all guess how this might fit in with ChatGPT desktop... 👀👀👀👀
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Super excited by the GPT4o announcement. Many AI interaction ideas I’ve fantasized about seem possible now.
In the meantime, just released an Iris update with unlimited GPT-4o access for pro users. Enjoy!
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I gave into temptation and started creating a personal notes app.
Now 2/8 apps that live on my dock are my own!
ALT Apps on my dock from left to right: Arc, Messages, Tempo, Concentric, Boundless, Google Drive, Sketch, Alacritty
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Due to popular demand, I’ve decided to open up the waitlist early. Sign up at boundless.so/fortune
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for the video you're seeing, we used a small LLM. Using traditional NLP techniques is likely the better solution though.
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if anyone wants to help get this fully ready for release:
A lotta people are asking me to release this, but there's still quite a bit of work left to get it to that level.
If you're experienced in SwiftUI/AppKit and wanna collab on this over some weekends, hmu! Especially if you're based in SF and down to work in person :)
There are definitely some tricky problems left to solve to make the experience excellent, including:
• Display multiple app folders simultaneously
• Performant, custom drag/drop implementation to rearrange apps
• If you customize an app's icon, display the custom icon instead of the stock one.
• Auto adapt dock icon to light/dark mode
• Hide dock icons of running apps if they are contained in folder (stretch goal for sure)
• Set a global keyboard shortcut to open an app folder, and use 1-9 on keyboard to open app inside it (probably stretch goal also)
• Handle different dock positions and multiple monitors
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This is the way. If I can’t make it beautiful, I’d rather not do it at all.
It’s a pre-condition separate from business needs — although, I’ve intentionally chosen a startup that aligns incentives for business and art as much as possible.
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This is one more step towards a new OS that feels like a unified, living, breathing system—not a collection of disconnected tools.
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Yeah it gets expensive. Long term local models would be better for this. But we tried a bunch and the speed + reasoning wasn’t at the level we needed
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Yup! I’m the demo video I’m activating autocomplete in @Superhuman (email app) within the browser!
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This is made possible by the AI controlled cursor that can retrieve linked items. Here's a previous demo that shares this mechanic.
I’m creating a search engine that remembers everything on your screen and lets you ask abstract questions over all your data.
Not only that, I’ve developed AI that re-opens any indexed content in its original app.
Watch Boundless retrieve an Apple note with its virtual cursor:
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Yes, semantic search is definitely useful here. Another big differentiator is that I can also re-open anything from the search bar. Rewind can only open browser urls.
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Venmo works
Connecting ideas together is a crucial part of thinking.
Note taking apps like @RoamResearch help spark new connections by grouping related notes via 2-way links.
But why stop at notes?
I can now bidirectionally link anything across my entire OS.
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#3: Things, a to-do app by @culturedcode
Things is so beautiful that it made me enjoy doing school work. Isn't that crazy?
When designing/developing my own apps, I've drawn so much inspiration from Things.
It's in the select group of software I would consider to be art.
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Ooo I'll share inspirational apps too!
#1: Cydia, the App Store for jailbreak tweaks.
It was a place without restrictions — where devs didn't need to compromise creativity.
Many delightful iOS features were tweaks first. Dark mode, batched notifs, floating video, + many more
Sharing three apps that inspired me, in hopes that you share yours too?
First up, Fish.
It was a novel, "tap essay" format that felt *so fresh* and native to the medium. It predated Snapchat Stories!
Was inspiring to see that it was possible to invent a new format altogether:
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I love fantastical, their flowing text animation is just toooo good. Definitely took inspiration from them.
Our version is pretty fast, but it's not updating every keystroke. It roughly re-renders every new word you type.
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My brain is broken, It seems like I’m most creative when ignoring urgent work.
Why do I keep starting side projects during exam week
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the initial design direction for our next major release @interfaceclubhq was centered around real-time shapeshifting UI that morphs on every keystroke.
Unfortunately was not realistic to make with today's models. Might dig up an old demo we built and post later
Truly ‘AI-native’ interaction paradigms will only emerge once reasoning models start operating in milliseconds (or less!) instead of minutes
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give me now
What if Pinterest felt more like real moodboarding?
Vibe crafted last night with @variantui
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If anyone has had problems signing into Iris due to login codes not coming through, please give it another try.
I switched email providers to @resendlabs and it seems to be working well so far.
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Had this feature in the very first version of iris.fun over a year ago. Surprised it hasn't gone mainstream yet
i should be able to interrupt gpt mid-response by just sending my message
feels more like talking to a person.
no idea why this isn’t just a thing already
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Create a new OS from first principles or build software with completely hand drawn UI and animations
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If you poke around our website (interface.club), you’ll notice something interesting. We’re both a product and a research company.
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You can add more than 4 items!
It’s just that only the first 4 will be shown in the folder icon
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The type of people we're looking to work with are both ruthless at execution and highly creative explorers. If this sounds like you, please please reach out!!
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We’re building a product grounded in solving today’s problems and we’re doing highly exploratory work to figure out what the future of personal computing can become.
The magic happens at the intersection of these efforts.
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@jasonyuan this is a prototype that does work fairly well with today's LLM.
But we can't fully take advantage of SOTA model intelligence due to latency. there's soooo much more that will be possible when they get faster.
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I’d like to, but there’s still quite a lot of work to get to a full release. Maybe will try to collab w someone or go the open source route..
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Yup! this is part of the exploration we’ve done for the next major release of iris.fun
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I tried ChatGPT + GPT3-powered writing tools for multiple tasks including summarization, rephrasing, generating counter-arguments. None yielded fantastic results.
One thing that consistently worked well was generating synonyms for words, but that's not groundbreaking.
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Been experimenting with that paradigm as well!
This is Iris, an AI with the sense of sight. You can chat about anything on your screen.
Waitlist: boundless.so/iris
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The detail of predicting you wanna play a song is very cool, also google assistant interaction is really fast
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I think beautifying afterwards will result in beauty that’s skin deep.
I think the way to go is just be super aggressive when paring down feature set. That way it’s possible to test viability and make something beautiful at the same time
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