📅 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.