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I built Dowse, a free, open-source way to find any file on your PC by describing it

I built Dowse, a free, open-source Windows application on top of Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2, a model that brings text, images, audio and video into a shared embedding space and can run on-device. I wanted to turn that capability into something practical: finding the files you remember, even when you've forgotten their names. Instead of remembering where you saved something, describe it: "Electricity bill from March." "The paper about attention mechanisms." "Photos

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痛点：用户常常记得文件内容或场景，却忘了文件名和保存位置，传统文件名搜索无能为力。

目标用户：Windows 知识工作者、研究者、律师、医生、创意工作者等有大量本地文件且重视隐私的用户。

证据：Instead of remembering where you saved something, describe it: "Electricity bill from March." ... The model runs locally on your PC. Your files aren't uploaded to a search service. This is an early release, built to be shared and improved. Code and Windows installer... free, open-source

变现：开源核心 + 付费 Pro 版（更快索引、OCR、更多格式、批量导出、跨设备），或面向律所/医疗/研究机构的隐私合规本地部署授权与技术支持。

MVP：2 周内做一个 Windows/macOS 本地语义文件搜索 MVP：只索引指定文件夹的 PDF、图片、文本，调用本地 EmbeddingGemma 或同类小模型生成向量，支持自然语言查询、结果高亮和 PDF 页码定位，端侧运行，免费版限索引量，Pro 版一次性收费。

竞品：Microsoft Recall、Rewind.ai、Everything、Recoll、macOS Spotlight、Dropbox Dash、Mem

摘要：作者发布免费开源 Windows 应用 Dowse，基于 DeepMind EmbeddingGemma 2，可在本机用自然语言描述查找文档和多媒体，并定位到 PDF 页或录音时刻。项目已可安装但未代码签名，帖中未出现付费意愿或收入数据，商业化需依赖 Pro 版或企业隐私部署。