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Earn your scrolling. Change the rules by voice.
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Cortex - Earn your scrolling. Change the rules by voice.

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Do a few push-ups, hold a plank or go for a walk. Earn time in your browsers and X. Cortex lets you tune activities, rewards and limits by voice or text. Tell it what to change, review it, approve it. A small Android experiment in using your phone on purpose.

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I made this for myself. I wanted opening a browser to be a choice again.

Do something useful, earn a little browsing time. Or leave the phone alone. Either outcome works for me.

The fun part is changing the rules. Tell the app what you want: different activities, shorter waits, more time per credit. Review the changes, then approve them. You can type too.

Astra is inside the app, handling those changes. It also one-shotted the voice UX and tested it end to end while I was building it. Unreal.

This early Android build still shows Friction inside the app. I'm sharing the experiment and would like to hear what rules you'd try.

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How did Astra change the scope or ambition of what you built?
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Astra is part of the product itself: it is the in-app agent that helps people change their activities, rewards and limits. Voice requests go to that same agent, with a review and approval before changes apply. During development, Astra one-shotted the voice UX for controlling the app and tested it end to end. That was unreal to watch. It made talking to the app a practical way to make it your own.