📅 2025-05-25 — Session: Developed and Deployed Haystack + Streamlit App

🕒 21:30–23:05
🏷️ Labels: Haystack, Streamlit, Hugging Face, Deployment, Web Scraping
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to design and deploy a Haystack + Streamlit application for personal memory systems, leveraging Hugging Face Spaces for deployment.

Key Activities

  • Explored strategies for utilizing daily activity logs with semantic indexing and time allocation analysis.
  • Designed a personal memory system for rich semantic queries, focusing on ‘whoami’ queries and metadata curation.
  • Reviewed Haystack as a QA framework, detailing its components and potential applications.
  • Developed and deployed a Haystack + Streamlit app, including comparisons with Gradio and deployment on Hugging Face Spaces.
  • Addressed deployment challenges such as Streamlit PermissionError in restricted environments and Git clone storage errors.
  • Updated Streamlit app setup, removing Docker dependencies and enhancing README metadata.
  • Created a rule-based pattern for harvesting GitHub documentation and distinguished between repo-based and web-based documentation strategies.

Achievements

  • Successfully deployed a Haystack + Streamlit application on Hugging Face Spaces.
  • Resolved technical issues related to deployment and error handling.
  • Established a framework for semantic querying and personal memory systems.

Pending Tasks

  • Further optimization of deployment processes and error handling strategies.
  • Exploration of additional use cases for university community support using web scraping techniques.