... Cogni is a Chrome extension that makes you think before the AI does. It's built on 10+ research papers on what heavy AI use does to original thinking, including work from Harvard, MIT, UPenn and Microsoft itself. In one of the studies students given unlimited GPT scored worse once it was taken away. They felt no difference. I started building it after scrolling back through my own ChatGPT history one evening. I was looking for an old prompt ... ... found dozens where I'd asked the AI to generate things from scratch that should have started with me. Names, angles, opening lines, first drafts of ideas. I wasn't editing my own thinking. I'd stopped supplying any. Cogni

... getting smarter started to build an overreliance and started clouding my independent thinking, and my thoughts started feeling generic like the AI outputs. And then I ended up coming across 10+ papers that supported this finding. So I built Cogni for myself, a tool that essentially sits on top of your claude/chatgpt sessions (other platforms coming soon) and intervenes when you are over-relying on AI, asking you to pause and think first before just asking these tools for help ...

... users in with zero marketing spend felt like all the validation we needed. Comment from Gaurav Singh(@gaurav_singh91): How I found the problem: Built agents for months. They could do everything except answer: "what ads is my competitor running?" Four browser tabs. Copy. Paste. Every time. Signal it was real: r/ClaudeAI had people asking for MCP ad data. r/FacebookAds had a guy calling Claude + ad spy "the biggest unlock in 2 years." No one had built the pipe. Validation ... ... constant gating at every turn, so I set out to create a tool more powerful, more feature rich that didn't require a massive budget to get access to. The AI chameleon avatar ended up being the surprise vs

... launching on PH this week, so full circle. Wouldn't call it "money from that first version" though, that one barely resembled what exists now. Curious how many other people here started completely outside software like I did vs. devs who just found a faster way to ship side projects. Comment from Landon Reid(@galax): My teenage son built a full SaaS on Bolt with Claude. A property zoning tool. Hardest part was the data layer, not the code. Every ... ... money. Vibe coding eliminated the boilerplate, not the thinking. Comment from fzero17(@fzero17): My first vibecoded project was OpenFolder a macOS menu bar app that turns your desktop into a calm personal launchpad. I built it using GitHub Copilot + VS

... Comment from Gaurav Singh(@gaurav_singh91): adextract - MCP server for ad libraries. Connects AI agents to Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and more via a single endpoint. Structured JSON output. For Claude users and agent builders who need programmatic access to competitor ad data across platforms. Comment from Rutvik Panchal(@therutvikpanchal): PixelDrive launching June 23rd. We solve the one template, thousands of variations problem . Think personalised certificates, localised ad creatives, bulk email headers cases where the design is fixed but the data ... ... equal parts excited and nervous, so would genuinely love a follow from folks here, that way you'll get notified the second we're live tomorrow! Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): TAM Network v2 launches wednesday august 12. an alternative

... francisco_ribeiro): Simplifying customer management with intelligence. Comment from Colin Smith(@colin_smith_96): Chinwag - Pay for access to somebody Comment from Zack G(@zack_g2): Never lose the call again https://getcinder.ai/ Comment from Shivansh Chawla(@shivansh_chawla): Cogni - Protect independent thinking from AI Comment from Scott Hancock(@theadaptivegolfer): The Adaptive Golfer - Practice tracking that lowers handicaps. Comment from Dominik Hommer(@dominik_hommer1): Patronus Protect - Control AI. Protect your data. https://patronus.studio Comment from Ashley Reynolds(@thesoulandsoma): Somyn - Track ...