VLM Evaluation
Strong general purpose VLMs can still fail on downstream vision tasks
A small chessboard-to-FEN experiment showed Claude Opus 4.7 struggling with exact square-level localization even when it understood the board broadly.
Engineering from the team building VideoDB.
Field notes, practical build stories, and newsletter issues from the work behind VideoDB.
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Field Notes
Field Notes
Recent production lessons
and technical notes.
Short notes on infrastructure, reliability, latency, retrieval, and the small fixes that matter in production.
Operations
Reuse HTTP connections in Python services
A short field note on replacing repeated bare requests calls with a shared session so Python services can reuse HTTP connections.
Frontend Performance
One CORS header that removed hundreds of milliseconds from repeated API calls
A practical note on preflight caching, custom auth headers, and why OPTIONS requests quietly dominate app latency on slower connections.
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Build Notes
Build Notes
Build notes
from working VideoDB projects.
Follow the architecture choices, API decisions, and tradeoffs behind apps, demos, and agent tools built with VideoDB.
Build Note · Lalit Gupta
Bloom: Record and Search Your Screen
How I built a local-first screen recorder on top of the VideoDB SDK. It automatically indexes your audio and screen, making everything searchable by the time you paste the share link.
Build Note · VideoDB Team
Focusd: A Coach for Your Workday, Not a Time-Tracking Report Card
How we built Focusd as a local-first desktop app that records work sessions, indexes screen activity with VideoDB, and turns raw events into useful productivity coaching.
Build Note · VideoDB Team
Build CCTV Camera for Your OpenClaw Agent
How we built a VideoDB-powered OpenClaw skill that records, indexes, searches, summarizes, and clips an agent's remote desktop without changing the agent itself.
Build Note · Sankalp Nagaonkar
Deep Search: How We Built an Engine for Finding Exact Moments in Video
How we built Deep Search as a retrieval loop for finding exact moments in video using planning, indexing, validation, recovery, and follow-up state.
Build Note · Rohit Garg
Pair Programmer: live screen and audio context for coding agents
A short engineering note on turning a developer session into searchable context with VideoDB Capture, RTStreams, local events, and agent-side retrieval.
Build Note · Om
How I built Call.md: AI call intelligence on top of VideoDB
A practical build story for a local-first call intelligence app that records calls, transcribes speakers, generates live nudges, and exports structured Markdown.
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Newsletter
Newsletter
Newsletters
from the VideoDB engineering team.
Concise updates, technical notes, and build context from the team working on video infrastructure and agents.
Newsletter · Video agents · model watch · VideoDB updates
The VideoDB Dispatch #001
Why agent runs need playable evidence, thinking tokens in vision models and agentic video streams.
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