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Nik Shevchenko

Omi (formerly Friend) - An open source AI necklace

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Discover Friend necklace - your open-source personal AI that listens, remembers conversations, takes notes, and prepares tasks for you. Stay organized with real-time notifications and comprehensive memory assistance. Explore the future of AI wearables!

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Nik Shevchenko
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🚀 Excited to introduce Friend Necklace on Product Hunt today! 🚀 To celebrate the launch, giving 5 devices to 5 random supporters! Results on Monday! ----- Meet Friend Necklace - your open-source personal AI that does more than just listen. It remembers your conversations, takes notes, and helps you stay organized by preparing tasks for you. Imagine having real-time notifications and comprehensive memory assistance, all in a sleek, wearable device. This is the future of AI wearables, and we're thrilled to share it with you! Check it out and let us know what you think. Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to innovate and improve. Let's revolutionize how we interact with technology together! 💬🤖✨ https://basedhardware.com/friend
Jaylin Orosco
Are we talking Friend 2?
Derrick Johnson
@kodjima33 Nik I'm excited to see this come to market. We have several ideas on where to leverage beyond notetaking.
Scott L
Launching soon!
@kodjima33 this looks awesome!!! I want one of these so bad. I can see the development opportunity of making a plugin for it too. Great job!
Abdal Yousef
@kodjima33 Congrats on the launch of Friend Necklace, Nik! The idea of an open-source AI necklace that helps with memory and organization is fascinating. I'm especially interested in how it uses plugins to expand functionality. Could you share some unique use cases or interesting ways people are using Friend in their daily lives? Excited to see how this evolves!
Teresa Mendizabal
@kodjima33 very excited to use it and looking forward to try it soon My congrats and best wishes for the next generation of intelligent devices. Regards from Perú
André J
🤩 Oh! Love the openource aspect here! Way to go 🚀 Especially when privacy is so crucial to get right with tech like this.
vldmihalache
It would be cool to have color options/ necklace variants, at least 3-4 variations for the beginning so it fits everyone's style. Nonetheless, great stuff guys! Congrats! 👏
Nathan Sudds
@vlad_mihalache I'm sure this will just be the beginning, we've already got people in the Friend community asking about specs so they can maybe 3d print accessories to wear their Friend 2 differently -- i.e. watch bands, magnetic pin, etc. We've got a small gallery growing with the current Friend Dev Kit where community members have already been creating mods too!
John Stevens
The future of hardware is open source - especially when it comes to something as sensitive as a device meant to record daily conversations. Really exciting to see the progress this team has made, congrats on the launch!!
Gregory Karfo
this is very interesting tool for daily life , huge congrats to the team!
Lisa Dziuba
Huge congratulations 🎉 on the launch! Would you mind sharing how it actually works from the technical side?
Krishna Madala
Friend is one of the most interesting devices in recent times definitely excited to see where it goes.
Bon
The design of this necklace is absolutely exquisite, and I love it. Plus, it's an AI-powered necklace! Even more impressive, it's open-source!
Abraham Aremu
Literally the first time I'm tempted to get a necklace. I've never had one. But after functionality, what I find most important is aesthetics. Your website and social media don't show any realistic/clear real life pictures of the device, so it's hard for me to commit. If I saw good pictures and could confirm it's my taste of "attractive" I'd preorder. TLDR; you're selling hardware, consider having enough product images
Connor Jewiss
Certainly looks like an interesting concept for AI hardware. Big fan of the idea of offering different designs!
Alena Bacharova
Congratulations on the launch! I like the concept of an open-source personal AI that can listen, remember conversations, take notes, and prepare tasks is groundbreaking.
Massimo Di Berardino
i have been using my friend necklace everyday for the last 3 months, it wasn't that much helpful tbh, but it's cool to experiment, learn from new technologies and see how the product keep improving. definitely worth it
Nathan Sudds
@massimokris I've been using my Friend for about the same amount of time, it really does all depend on how you use it and the context that you are in -- I've been using mine during the weekly sync meetings with the Friend community and it's great for having meeting notes to share with the community -- dogfooding Friend in the community is a lot of fun too :) I've also had some very meaningful conversations with my wife that wouldn't have been captured if it wasn't for Friend and it has been helpful to our relationship using some plugins to analyze some of the conversations together as an objective 3rd party. One of my favorite use cases has been wearing Friend during coworking meetups to get a summary of what everyone is working on and sharing as well. Each week in the Discord there's a lot of great ideas bubbling up for plugins and integrations, the new updated Plugins just launched that can connect to outside apps like Notion, so the possibilities are growing each week.
Massimo Di Berardino
@nathansudds 100% agree with you, depend on the context and use case. i like the product, doesn't make my life much better, but i'm a happy daily user. also, i think the plugins integrations is great to make it much more useful
Tony Han
Honestly, after seeing products like Rabbit fails, people knew the limit of tech and their trust are lost. I think the open source is such a great way to build trust, and on-device could be great for enthusiasts and the team can still expand into cloud one day with a similar model to note taking software, etc. I think the open source, on device approach also solves a lot of concerns over privacy, but I think there are still a few things that need to be solve: - how to pause so if conversation shouldn't be recorded - third party asked or privacy law is involved - how to do the above automatically because the person is not aware that they can record voices around them - battery life Congrats on launching the product though @kodjima33 - it takes a lot of risk to build something that's quite controversial right now, but I like the approach ya'll took.
Daivat Dholakia
Open Source + Always listening Personal Assistant = Game changer! Cant wait to try this out. Congrats @kodjima33 and Joan!
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Hey @kodjima33, this is seriously cool! Your creativity really shines through here. Love the vibe and how you make everything look so effortless. Keep sharing your awesome work, can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Kyrylo Silin
Hey Nik, I'm particularly intrigued by its ability to remember conversations and prepare tasks. How secure is the data stored in the device? How customizable are the notifications and memory assistance features? Congrats on the launch!
Erik Bjäreholt
I've wanted an open-source device like this for so long, and now we finally have something really promising. So excited! Friend seems like it'll quickly live up to it's name, I hope to find time to contribute and help turn this into both an amazingly successful OSS project AND product.
Guillermo Bascuñana
I was going to ask how privacy is handled with this as I think it was the first concern many people might have, but seeing it is open source so, very glad this is the route taken. Best of luck!
Rasmus Merirand
I've been trying to do many of these things half manually. Recording calls etc and then going over them with AI to get the important points. Put having a device that does this for everything in you life seems like a game changer!
Georgi Pepelyankov
Can't wait to give it a try! Thanks Nik and team for the incredible work in democratising access to the latest tech and capabilities in AI!