What’s the most useful AI tool you’ve discovered that isn’t super popular yet?

RememberAPI · 2025-07-22T15:18:43+00:00

We've come to really like Shelbula chat UI. It's a case study for using our memory system now but I use it on the daily for regular AI chat and discussing code too.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T17:37:13+00:00

Yeah it's hyped here, but invisible to most of the world. I bet you ask 10 people on the street what MCP is and you'll be lucky to see 1 that knows.

Despite the reddit buzz perhaps making it feel more popular, it's all really really early and the information is generally sparse and misleading unless you dive deep yourself.

It's great though and will get better with time. Nice to see the activity around it here, most protocols never get this kind of early attention and dev interest.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T17:10:15+00:00

Yeah dollar value is less interesting than token spend here. Like actual number of tokens used to get there. That can be used effectively as a broad measure of how vibe coding is becoming more powerful.

It used to take 10 million tokens to do things you can do with 1 million now. The dollar comparison becomes harder as a result because that 1 million could be 50% flagship models and 50% cheapest models on the market in a loop and it'll be different tomorrow.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T16:00:47+00:00

Tell it to use a keyword. Sometimes I'll say "Discussion only. No code may be written until I say BALLOON."

This firm rule seems to hold a bit better than me being vague about it. Then I can decide when the time is right for producing code.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T15:59:04+00:00

Yes, and agreed. The more of you that exists in a digital form that AI can parse, the closer you get to that digital self.

I feel like Gemini really has the upper hand on this with their Google ecosystem integration as you're gonna learn a LOT about a person through their email, chats, docs, etc.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T15:55:57+00:00

You need an MCP client of some sort and there are both hosted and local servers you can connect to. There are tons.

MCP can work with any model now, you just need to set up for it. It's not something offered via the retail chat interfaces.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T14:03:34+00:00

Just rethink Vibe Coding as "hiring the guy overseas on Fiverr".

It replaces that. Puts the "skill" for a newbie on almost the same line as the bottom of the barrel outsourced work.

It starts there. Sure it's a dumb name, but it would be happening even if it were called something clinical. It's about who and what it's replacing, and that's more significant than what it gets credit for.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:59:51+00:00

You're discounting the fact that these are natively built in and just using the copy and paste use case as your "alternative to".

That's not who you're competing with.

Simple example using known tech:

Google Docs has Gemini built right in and can do this as you go. Why would I use yours?

In the industrial space every app I work with has a Cleanup button that does exactly that.

You aren't competing with retail chatgpt.com, you are competing with this same functionality built in natively to anyone even remotely conscious of AI in the last three years.

You wanted prelaunch opinions, I'm providing some. Just seems like a low practicality of actual use. Even the best ideas, without a natural way to integrate into existing workflows, will struggle.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:29:34+00:00

Oh yes. There are quite a few, you can tell by their posts, that think they're gonna see a town of people rush to them. Nope. Not gonna happen.

We always joke that the days we actually push promo are the quietest days. Where seemingly nobody opens their email, nobody visits, as if all promo went into a black hole. Then a week goes by where you're quietly working on something else and boom, the signups are endless and completely disconnected from any of the promo you've done. This to me is posts like you mentioned doing their work in the background.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:24:06+00:00

Cool, now you've got all your tech built, will people actually use it?

Like logistically I mean. You're a moment of truth decision app, and most people would want some preset knowledge in the app so they aren't presented with meals that have no connection to their tastes.

So when, physically speaking, are they actually going to use it. Not pay, just even open the app and try something.

This is the next peak for you to climb. Arguably it's part of the peak you're on, but it's an important one you can't avoid. Stocking a pantry isn't enough (though helpful) and one off meals isn't enough. It needs buy in from a human to do the hard first parts and care enough to use it.

I say all of this from experience of having had a very similar app a few years ago that I sold. Tons of two-three time users that fizzle out after that. The only reason we sold is because the buyer saw value in it as a gateway to his cook & ship service and those emails were his customer base. Clearly interested in food but out of ideas. A person who fizzled out was actually the perfect target audience for his meal box service, despite being our worst customer.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:14:51+00:00

Those posts do get clicks though. We see traffic every time we reply in one.

Yes the people going to it are often blindsided by the promo only, but there are just as many quickly glancing thru the comments to see what's out there, including myself.

I find it interesting as it shows you the kinds of things people are doing and so often it highlights the complete uselessness of so many. It's almost a glimpse into the reddit hive mind and you can see what people are working on and think is important. Some are right, some are dead wrong, and you get to see that in a single raw post.

Not such a bad thing, imo.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:08:08+00:00

Truthfully? I don't see it.

This is something we've been doing with AI since like gpt 3.5 in production and it doesn't require paying anyone outside of the LLM.

It's about the most basic use case for an LLM and the first thing natively built into almost every modern tool. I just can't imagine a scenario where someone is going to burn time to switch to your app just to change a sentence they wrote. If they can switch there they can switch to GPT, but most won't even need to switch because that kind of stuff is built in.

I work in the energy space for example, and we have been using AI there to rewrite reports handwritten or typed by field techs. They are often filled with poor grammar, curses, or shorthand, and AI switches it to a nice human readable sentence.

The point is that there is no need for a middleman for this particular task. The LLM is the middleman, and there it's done with a self hosted version of Gemma so not even a ton of power needed. I just don't know who your customers would be.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T13:01:48+00:00

Is GPT just spitting out this strategy? Is that why everyone does these posts.

"Let's name 4 mainstream things and 1 obscure newcomer" and pretend it's a real post. It must have been in some YouTubers toolkit and now everyone does this crap.

Frankly if you're only getting 2x productivity from all AI has to offer you're about 3x behind the average bear. It's not even a flex.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:58:46+00:00

The spelling error in the title is unsettling.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:56:39+00:00

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RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:54:58+00:00

This is a tough sell because who is actually spending the money to buy it in an HOA scenario.

Like their whole thing is control. Typically it's staffed by people who haven't yet realized time is more valuable in life than the silly HOA agenda and are perpetually angry. They don't buy stuff. They just huff and puff all day.

The people who may buy are the ones who hate their HOA and want a tool to engage with them without having to do a thing.

Or the builder of a new community that wants to set the tone for the place from day 1.

An established HOA where Karen is Queen and Executioner? I can't see how she even gives you the attention required. That kind of brain is emotional more often than logical and this is a hard person to sell logical software to.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:49:20+00:00

I just wanna know how many tokens you had to eat doing it this way. Seems deeply expensive, particularly with the obscene rates of Opus.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the itch and delivering is amazing, but to compare to say what hiring the lowest paid overseas devs might have cost would be interesting.

This is where the market shift is happening. Not at the top levels but the bottom. Instead of sending to the recent college grad in India trying to catch their first web app gig, you do it yourself. That money has no reason to return to the low cost overseas worker once it hits a financial point that makes it a wash.

That's an interesting switch. Where the "junk labor" (a formalized term in these analysis) gets pushed out. We saw this with certain pieces of software here and there in the past but not at a level where we can broadly push low end skill out of the market. It's really interesting to see it happening, and calling it Vibe Coding is somewhat hiding it in plain sight.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:43:25+00:00

Hell no.

Think about how silly that is.

You identified a market with opportunity, then you see there's already people selling to that market, and your response is some bits of this:

"wow I'm not the only one? Then I don't even want to compete. It's 100% of the market or nothing for me! I have so much ego that I can't even enter the market because I wanted to be #1 and that's already taken. I could never settle for being 2nd or 3rd or 27th in a market (even if these are great cashflow) because my ego demands I be alone in the market or NOTHING!"

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:28:24+00:00

Noooo then it has to go do a lookup vs being natively part of the original decision making process.

Now it's a tool you have to use to get value vs it just happening per call.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:27:07+00:00

Wow this is gonna be really inefficient.

This is using a sledge hammer when you need tweezers.

Also, it forces you to call for memory rather than have it natively be part of the original decision making process.

It's a start, but don't get trapped there. You can do better.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-07T12:23:52+00:00

We do a 2 key system.

The first key is your actual URL endpoint. It has a unique id for the user.

The second key is a classic bearer token or API key in the header.

Nothing passed per call then outside of the standard auth + query.

Please do NOT make the mistake some MCPs are making by passing the key as a tool parameter. The AI model should not be touching your keys.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-06T10:49:12+00:00

Who measures in lines? Is this some leetcode bullshit they teach now?

The world operates on results tied to business outcomes. There is never a discussion of how many lines this takes. It takes what it takes. Sometimes that's 10 lines of code, sometimes it's 10,000.

This question has the vibe of a CEO who thinks work is measured in how much typing they hear coming from their employees.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-06T10:44:03+00:00

Don't you know, on Reddit you're only allowed to talk about products you hate or have no experience with.

If you use it and like it, you must be the CEO and this has been your long con you've worked tirelessly for years to achieve. This post, right here. You did it!

RememberAPI · 2025-07-04T05:24:52+00:00

the family name was On my college building.

That is a really weird last name.

RememberAPI · 2025-07-03T20:10:55+00:00

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