The product naming is becoming harassment. When it's in the title, at least we know. When it's in the intro, we know what we are getting into.
What really pinch is that this project could have easily been done with some scripting, open sourced, and anyone could do it at zero cost, with total privacy.
It would in fact make fore a better result, a family wiki with content that's AI generated may overall look accurate, but the sloppy parts ridiculous. If I find an archive I would rather assemble the information myself.
Each year I have the wife take curated photos from our shared accounts with an overview of the event photographed.
This is then bound into a 1/2 inch book with 50 pages. We now have a dozen years of annualized memories that we can pass around with physical access.
She has done this for others with great success. The personal touches make it well worth what she charges.
I started running an private MediaWiki instance during the pandemic as I wanted something with a nice editing experience rather than editing markdown documents. I almost went with a self-hosted Confluence instance :P
Mediawiki is very very nice and it has a lot of cool features i've been loving over the years.
One of the things i like the most is the ability to embed a PDF document so that it's both downloadable and browsable from the wiki page itself (it embeds the browser pdf engine).
This means that i can, say, have a page for my microwave oven and have its user manual easily available.
Lately I've been thinking how to connect that with some LLM, most likely there's a chance to do some interesting things :)
This chap made it a labor of love.