louis · founder of screenpipe
I was born in Avignon — where a bunch of guys in robes in the 15th century decided they had a direct line to the creator of the universe, and everyone just went with it.
At 8 I learned English because I needed to trade items with strangers in Diablo 2. By 14 I was reverse engineering the game's assembly protocol and selling items on PayPal. It taught me that there is no such thing as "impossible".
At 13 I was diagnosed with leukemia. The doctor said I might be dead in 6 months. Twelve grays of radiation — like a nuclear blast — destroyed every cell in my body. Then my brother gave me his stem cells so I could live. Many other kids I shared that hospital with didn't make it. Two years there changed how I look at the world.
When you're 15 and you've already beaten death, you see time differently. Every hour wasted feels like an insult to the kids who didn't get more hours.
principles
survival: life above all
Two years in a hospital taught me one filter: does this earn the time I was given?
create time, explore, and expand
The purpose of life is to create more time for humans to explore the universe and upgrade their consciousness.
bet everything on what you believe in
I turned down OpenAI, Cursor, Mercor in their early days - because I found something I'd stake my life on.
radical transparency
Open source is accountability. If we say your data stays local, you can verify it yourself.
play positive sum games
We’re hard wired to take, but it’s time to change and aim for maximum cooperation.
playfulness and craziness
The best things I’ve built came from following curiosity to absurd extremes.
do a few things very well
Less features, invest in quality, good design, good taste. Be fanatical about user experience.
why screenpipe
Attention is finite. Leverage is infinite.
Your screen is the highest-bandwidth signal of human intent — 10 million bits per second of what you actually care about. Yet nobody's truly leveraging it.
There will be no apps in the future. Only data and AI.
Screenpipe is that data layer — a perfect, local, structured record of everything that happened on your computer. Not a tool you prompt but a system that watches, understands, and acts.
One consciousness. Infinite parallel value streams.