u/Zoya040499

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits... If that happens, I'll add additional credits... Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is: (Just paste it as a URL) "nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/"

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits. Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is here:
https://nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/index.html

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits. Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is here:
https://nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/index.html

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits. Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is here:
https://nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/index.html

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.

Hey everyone,

I’m a CS major. During my recent semester break I had some leftover research grant money and zero desire to just sit around. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.

After dealing with the usual frustrations with Dumb Meta AI on Ray-Ban glasses (and the same limitations on regular wireless earbuds), I started coding. The goal was simple:

• Use whatever wake word I want (or train a completely new one)
• Talk back and forth naturally without saying the wake word every single time
• Bring my own API keys for stronger models when I want them
• Work with normal wireless earbuds and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
• Voice reminders, notification reading, better vision descriptions, and the ability to live stream to non-Meta platforms

I called it Niya… no reason in particular… or it’s my best friend’s name perhaps.

Anyway, it’s Android-only for now (APK is up). I intentionally didn’t burn the entire research grant on tokens yet. I only bought a limited amount. The thinking was: if almost nobody actually uses it, there’s no point stocking a huge pile of credits. So if a sudden wave of people jumps on, you might hit rate limits. Just being transparent about that.

I plan to build this for iOS as well… just wanna have some feedbacks first.

The site with the download and more details is here:
https://nativelyitsyourassistant.github.io/niya/index.html

I’m not here to hype it. I’m genuinely curious:

• Does this solve any real annoyance for you?
• What feels missing or half-baked?
• Would you actually use something like this day-to-day?
• Any features that would make or break it for you?

Be as blunt as you want. I’d rather hear the honest stuff now than after more time and money goes into it.