I’ve been working on a project called EchoStream, and I’d love to share it with you.
As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore new products. But I started noticing that it was taking me the whole morning just to get through it all.
I began to wonder: could an AI help me read Hacker News more efficiently? Could it summarize everything so I can quickly scan through, and then dive deeper into what interests me? And more than that—could it store what I’ve seen so I can recall it later when it's relevant?
That’s the idea behind EchoStream.
EchoStream is a local AI agent that runs entirely on your iPhone. It includes a built-in thinking model to help you do more with less effort—privately and efficiently, without sending your data anywhere.
Some of its key features:
- Read and understand web pages using AI
- OCR for recognizing and processing text in images
- Automatically record, transcribe, and summarize audio
- An AI-powered news feed with fresh, relevant updates
- Memory search that connects new info with what you’ve seen before
It’s still early, but I’d really appreciate your feedback or thoughts. I built this for myself, and now I want to share it with all of you.
You can have a try here:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echostream-mind-copilot/id6476... or to the homesite: https://www.echostream-ai.com/
Note: It works well on any iDevice with at least 4GB of RAM.
ukuina•5mo ago
shuhongwu•5mo ago
It's interesting that we both saw a similar need around staying informed without spending hours browsing. Your approach with Gemini Flash for the web-based solution makes a lot of sense, especially being able to offer it for free.
Our focus is a bit different - we're exploring what becomes possible when you move that intelligence directly onto the device itself. So while you're solving the summarization problem really well in the cloud, we're asking "what if this kind of AI agent lived natively on your iPhone?" The privacy, speed, and offline capabilities open up some interesting possibilities.
Thanks for sharing your project - it's always great to see different approaches to similar problems. The fact that multiple people are building in this space suggests there's real demand for better ways to consume information.
And, We will remove the paid feature in the later versions. Cause this agent is running on your device, there is no need to have any pay.
ProofHouse•5mo ago
- 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
shuhongwu•5mo ago
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!