hey Product Hunt 👋

ok real talk. we consume so much. podcasts at 2x, reels, TL;DRs, 47 tabs open. and somehow we still:

nod along in meetings and understand like 40%
reply “omg that sucks” when our friend needed us to actually listen
fix the same problem every month because we never saw why it keeps happening

nobody trains this stuff. school doesn’t, work doesn’t, your feed definitely doesn’t.

so I built Kotan: three tiny labs you do out loud, in a few minutes a day:

Listen. Someone explains an idea, voice only, no transcript (like real life lol). Lost? Just interrupt and ask. Then explain it back in your own words. Kotan checks every key idea against what you actually said.

Talk. A real spoken convo with a character. Do they want help, to vent, or to vibe? Read it wrong and you’ll watch them go cold. Afterwards you see the exact line where you lost them, and you can redo it and see if they open up.

Think. Short stories about real problems: a team gaming its targets, an app chasing “time spent”, money that keeps leaking. Spot what’s really driving it, guess what happens next, then pick a fix and watch it play out. the part I’m proudest of: it doesn’t gas you up.

it’s free. sign in with Google, headphones on, best in Chrome on a laptop.

would genuinely love your brutally honest feedback, especially which lab you’d actually come back to 🙏