Apogee vs. Etchv

Private AI summarizer for anything you read. Inspired by Mozilla's Orbit. - darshi1337/apogee Hey everyone!Last year, Mozilla released Orbit, an AI-powered browser summarizer hosted on a GCP server. After people started digging into the extension, they discovered things like backend endpoints such as store_result. Eventually, Mozilla discontinued the project.For the past month, I’ve been trying to rebuild Orbit from scratch, but with one major difference: Apogee is fully local and privacy-focused. Apogee doesn’t send or store your data. It can directly connect to your local Ollama instance for inference. I’ve also added WebGPU integration for Chrome and Transformers.js for Firefox to p...

Add an invisible watermark to images, PDFs and video, then detect it to see which copy was shared. Forensic watermarking API with a free trial. Hello HN!The inspiration for Etchv came directly from friends who raised concerns about the growing ease of unauthorized media copying without attribution. To address this, Etchv embeds an invisible watermark inside images, PDFs, or short videos that survives modifications like screenshots, format changes, and file compression.You can try it on our homepage without signing up. There's also a live demo where a watermarked PDF page gets screenshotted and the watermark ID is still successfully recovered: https://etchv.com/demo/traceInstead of training a model from scratch...