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

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

Session Goal

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

Key Activities

  • Explored strategies for utilizing daily activity logs with semantic indexing and automation.
  • Designed a personal memory system to support ‘whoami’ queries with semantic querying.
  • Reviewed Haystack as a question-answering framework, focusing on its components and applications.
  • Developed and customized a Haystack + Streamlit app, comparing it with Gradio and planning deployment on Hugging Face Spaces.
  • Addressed deployment requirements and error handling for Streamlit apps in restricted environments.
  • Updated and deployed the Streamlit app, resolving Git clone storage errors and removing Docker dependencies.
  • Outlined strategies for documentation harvesting from GitHub repositories and web scraping for documentation ingestion.

Achievements

  • Successfully deployed a Streamlit app integrated with Haystack on Hugging Face Spaces.
  • Resolved PermissionError and storage issues during deployment.

Pending Tasks

  • Further refine the web scraping function for enhanced documentation ingestion.
  • Explore additional use cases for university community support using web scraping.