Hey fellow comers, just showing my progress. I will launch by next month hopefully.
I've completed my work for:
Currently, I'm working on finishing:
I'm using the Vercel AI SDK, Next.js, Firebase, and Bing to ensure setting up and running the project is as straightforward as possible. I hope to support more LLMs, like Claude, Mistral, and Gemini, to offer a mix-and-match approach.
Although I've accomplished a lot, there are still a few more weeks of work ahead. Unfortunately, I've failed to raise any funds for my project and am fully dependent on the open-source community for support.
Note: VCs told me I can't build perplexity so simply because I don't have that much skills or high enough pedigree. They are literally blinded by the fact that any average dev can also build such an app.
What's the point of open source here? The llm is closed, the data is proprietary. Why do we care if the outer shell is open or close?
Whatever I can help with. You really think I can build the next version of LLM or something?
I am trying to share as much as possible
For as much shit they get, VC’s aren’t that stupid you know. They see if you dont posses deep background in AI, you might not able to handle when things go wrong .
Especially in such pure consumer SaaS where you aren’t showing any moat
Regardless, I like what you are trying to do, perplexity has heavy western bias in searches too.
If you would wish to build defensibility in your project, and make it venture friendly, you can DM me, we can brainstorm ideas (ex. grounding answers with Knowledge graphs, agent based search and answer, adding deep multilinguallity and finetuning with datasets like Aya)
Am working as research scientist with 6 YOE in ML
Let me know if you guys love it.
Hey guys, as I said in my last post, I am think of building an open-source version of Perplexity to show people how easy it is.
But with all the existing tools available what features would you want? Anything specific? What is missing? ...
Hey guys, I am here just to beta test my upcoming open-source alternative to PerplexityAI. You guys might have seen my video demo which I posted few weeks before.
The code and product is still in dev and needs a shit ton of work before ...
Hey everyone!
I'm excited to announce the official launch of my open-source alternative to PerplexityAI! 🚀 Your feedback has been invaluable in shaping the app.
The source code is now available on GitHub (https://github.com/Omniplex-a...
