menubar VS nun-db

been working on https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar for a couple months, but nervous to "launch" it because i feel like it hasn't had a significant "wow" moment yet. basically the idea is to 5x the amount of chat output for every unit of human input, to get variety + familiarity with the wide range of chat models out there. its moved from a "smol menubar app" towards its own "ai chat browser". i wonder if i should put int he work to make it a full "ai browser" before i launch it.

comparing them every day via https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar . i'd say when it comes to coding I pick their suggestions about 30% of the time. not SOTA, but pretty darn good!

fwiw i noticed the demo failing before today's release. i use all 4 major chat apps every single day for every query (https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar) and started detecting a major major regression in bard about a week or so ago. so suspected something was going on, went back to pop in this question and lo and behold

smol-ai/menubar: a menubar with Zero latency access to ChatGPT/Bard/Claude! A/B test them, or use them in the background. I use this 20 times a day. (github.com) It has a customizable URL. But I don't know how to install it. Plus limited to three chatbots.

smol menubar - quickly access ChatGPT, Bard, and Anthropic with a single keyboard shortcut

i think the best way to consume these things is a menubar app that can be brought up quickly with a shortcut. i recently released https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar which i personally use!

smol ai enjoyers may also like my other app https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/

I never correlate my growth with the company I am working for; sometimes, you overgrow the company, and it is time to leave.

"Pays okay; 100% remote; very few meetings; low standards for productivity mean I have great work/life balance" seems like a perfect workplace.

What you need is probably a project outside of work to challenge you. I built my own company 13 years ago as a side project (I still run it up to this day as a side project) because I was a Mobile developer and Would like to keep doing Web development.

Today, I am having fun with my Open-source project https://github.com/mateusfreira/nun-db. When I have too many meetings or fight fewer coding challenges in my work, writing my own distributed database keeps me fresh and challenged. With it, I learned Rust and also distributed systems, which made me read books and papers that would never be needed for my normal work.

I see that as growing, and it has brought me great opportunities. Times these side projects become companies, and you make money; times, they bring job opportunities that you would not have otherwise.

You should leave a company when your growth is faster and more than the company can take in. Meanwhile, use the low pressure to go after other challenges personally; that is my way of dealing with it.

I am currently developing an open-source (MIT) database that can be directly accessed from the frontend (browser and apps) , that is distributed, and capable to deliver data in real-time. The primary goal is to provide support for any use-case that requires close proximity to users and, most importantly, it is entirely free to use and run by yourself if desired.

If you would like to view it, please visit: https://github.com/mateusfreira/nun-db

Feedback is always welcome, especially if you have a use-case in mind that you believe it may be suitable for but are unsure. I have already utilized it in many of my personal projects and for a few clients with a small number of users, but I am hopeful that it will soon be ready for larger-scale implementation.

Working towards making Nun-db (My personal open source project ) a leader less distributed database check it out https://github.com/mateusfreira/nun-db/pull/50 just yesterday I merged one pull requests there was going for like 2 weeks