How its Started , How is it going

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If you ever wonder how a project come to be, sourcepilot did not started as a desktop text editor, it was a source gathering app.

“What do you mean source gathering app? "

It all started when I was doomscrolling X (formely Twitter) and then someone posted some information, and another user commented “Do you have the source for that? “

And that was basically the Idea that a have, a source gathering informaiton app where you could grab this info and then return for the user.

After a feel development cycles, I've came up with something :

This idea was before X has grok , where now you just can ask the ai and it will throw the sources more accurate and faster , but from that I have the idea.

“So if I can gathered the source, I want to have the most accurate and source based text I can have”. Basically a Jenni.ai app … but I’ve iterated from that.

Of course now you want to have AI to work with your memory sources to give you the best outcome of what you're gathering, so I hooked AI on my idea . I'm not a researcher, I love to research , but I’m not in the field, so I wanted something more like this :

• Able to add sources

• Allow AI to look a the sources ,

• help me write this thing

And voila, the transformation was complete, revealing a masterpiece that exceeded all expectations, a desktop app that seamlessly blended the simplicity of a note-taking app with the power of AI-assisted research, all while keeping my sources front and center.

No more tab juggling between browser windows and documents, everything lived in one place where I could drag in PDFs web clips even random screenshots from X and the AI would actually understand the context instead of hallucinating nonsense

And the best part, performance I'd built the core in Rust (because apparently I hate myself) but the payoff was insane, instant search across thousands of sources zero lag when the AI was churning through references

The editor itself borrowed heavily from VS Code's architecture but stripped down to the essentials : markdown

That's it , this is how one idea came out from a simple search to a full fledged text editor.