I’m in the US but it’s saying not available in my region?
Is it possible to download the app based on your App Store account's region, may be your account is registered outside the U.S.?
Also the app's age rating is 17+.
Readit Newsshuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
Is this not available in India? Would love to try it.
Yes, we’ve just made our service available in India.
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
Do you have any insight / resources into developing a local AI?
I have a novel use case as a wilderness first responder and am looking for a pathway.
1. llama.cpp can run on both Android and iOS devices.
2. For non-transformer models, Mamba and RWKV are also good options.
3. Additionally, you should have a better understanding of embeddings, tokens, and the structure of transformers.
And on Apple Silicon chips, MLX is preferred and is often the best choice.
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
Why make it not available in all regions?
We're still developing this product for tech leaders and startup founders. We're also working on AI products for edge devices. Expanding to other regions would create too much pressure.
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
Where is the TestFlight link?
Here:https://testflight.apple.com/join/x18p4hz7
Better have an iPhone with RAM > 4GB
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
This is the feature that I am interested in
- Memory search that connects new info with what you’ve seen before
Yes, this is like a kind of flow - how to say - a kind of mind stream, replacing me thinking of any connections between any newest news and my memories.
As a person, we only need to listen to some insights and decide what to do. Others, let the ai agent do it. We think this may be the future in personal AI area.
Actually, imagine your device(not only the iPhone but also other edge devices) constantly building these connections in the background - when you read something new, it automatically surfaces related things you've seen before, conversations you've had, or notes you've taken. Instead of you having to remember "wait, didn't I read something about this topic last month?", the agent just presents those connections.
It's like having a research assistant that never forgets and can instantly connect dots across everything you've ever consumed or created on your device. The human stays focused on the insights and decisions, while the AI handles the memory and pattern recognition.
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
This is cool, I always like to see local-first services on Mobile.
All of these features are great, and it's really cool that I can have them run locally on my phone, but what I feel is really missing on the Mobile App market right now is AI cross app automation.
I'm not sure it's possible with IOS right now though.
For instance: I went to france earlier this year, and before I went I saw this french vocabulary sheet that was just an image. I wanted to get the text from the image, format it into a csv with english in column 1 and french in column 2 and then export it to anki, which is also on my phone. AnkiDriod has this feature, and Gemini can deffinitely do OCR, translation and text formatting, however I had to do all the awkward app switching and input myself! This is the bit I wanted automated
In my knowledge domain, that's actually possible on iOS, but it will cause more privacy issues for sharing data between different apps, and also the clipboard issue. Apple has been pretty restrictive about inter-app communication for good reasons, but it does limit these kinds of automated workflows.
As you mentioned with that situation, I think Apple and Google may have better power to optimize the OS system if we only do it on the local device. They have the deep system-level access that would make this kind of seamless automation work without the privacy and security trade-offs that third-party apps face.
shuhongwu commented on Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone · Posted by u/shuhongwu
Not available in my region, apparently.
We're currently only available on the App Store in the US while we're in early development.
You could try the TestFlight version if you're interested in testing it out - that should work in more regions.
- would love to collapse all the news outlets at top and keep closed - would love a way to customize the wrap ups below that you have - would love the comments summary below
For the comments summary - honestly, we think comments are pure gold. Sometimes they're way better than the actual news (which says something about journalism these days ). I personally read every single comment because you never know when someone drops absolute wisdom in there. But, not everyone has my comment-reading obsession, so we'll definitely add a summary option for the normal people!