tomaszwi66/AetherMind

AetherMind is a very early-stage (1 day old, 0 stars) personal RAG project. While the 'local-first' and 'AI Memory OS' angle is popular, the project currently lacks any technical moat or community traction. It competes in a highly crowded space against established open-source tools like Khoj, MemGPT, and PrivateGPT, as well as commercial entities like Rewind.ai. Most critically, it faces extreme platform risk from Microsoft (Recall) and Apple (Apple Intelligence), who are integrating similar 'memory' capabilities directly into the OS kernel with much higher fidelity data access (screen, audio, and system events) than a third-party application can realistically achieve. The project's value proposition is limited to privacy-maximalists who refuse to use OS-level AI features, which is a small and fragmented niche. Without a novel architectural breakthrough or significant ecosystem integration (e.g., an Obsidian plugin or a specific hardware tether), it remains a personal experiment.