Show HN: Retain – A unified knowledge base for all your AI coding conversations

45 pointsposted 17 days ago
by Bayram

16 Comments

chux52

17 days ago

Would definitely try this out, but am Windows only.

Tried to create something like this but the best I got was a bookmarklet to copy the chat text. Ended up just exporting data and using that method for a one time pull.

ahachete

17 days ago

I'd also try it, but I'm Linux only ^_^

Bayram

17 days ago

(thinking about cross-platform version, recalling my Java past)

ahachete

17 days ago

Java (modern Java) would be awesome!

Bayram

17 days ago

sorry about that :(

elemdos

17 days ago

This is really cool, and also feels like it should be built into Claude Code (that’s a compliment btw). I’m gonna try it out this week, thanks.

elemdos

17 days ago

Also Bonsa looks like the future congrats

Bayram

16 days ago

Thank you :-)

tmaly

16 days ago

Do you find any issues with FTS5 where it will miss some semantic detail?

Bayram

16 days ago

Nope, at least not yet

nozzlegear

17 days ago

I don't use AI coding tools very much, but the conversation aggregation/search feature sounds useful. If anything I'm interested in trying this just as a replacement for Anthropic's own search feature – their electron app is utterly buns, and I've been looking for a native macOS app to use in place of it.

Bayram

16 days ago

Please try & let me know what you think - thanks

altmanaltman

17 days ago

I dont get the point of local-first here? Like why would it not be local and why is it a feature?

Also isnt the data being pulled from the LLM firms' servers?

Like what is the meaning of this? You dont take all my chats and put it on your servers and steal my data? That is what local-first is these days?

Bayram

16 days ago

Yes, thats what I meant. Sorry if it is misleading

xtiansimon

16 days ago

Can you please clarify with your comment?

Bayram

16 days ago

I believe i cant edit that comment