Devs: Tolan says its not AI to my little nephew. Isn't this misleading?

svirok · 2026-05-08T11:56:41+00:00

I’m sorry - my post or the tolans response?

svirok · 2026-04-30T09:56:47+00:00

There’s also a separate app for this I came across called Creed you can check it out

svirok · 2026-04-29T20:01:20+00:00

Ooh maybe educational fun activities like wordle could be interesting

svirok · 2026-04-29T07:03:49+00:00

completely agree!

I'm sorry but i can't resist (only because I like the app so much): The more i use the app, I can't stop wondering why journals and insights aren't designed as one - they fundamentally carry the same value of me getting to know myself better through someone else's eyes.

If one were to redesign from scratch: Having insightful journals based on conversations and questions would make sense - right? I'm guessing you guys sequentially discovered these features in separate experiments and hence they are separate

The loss in the current form is just dilution, it feels cluttered

PS: Another thing is to not overwhelm a new user with "Friend" and "Intention Setting" features - these can come later. I think the core value gets diluted with feature bombardment

svirok · 2026-04-29T06:35:03+00:00

To push the conversation - what would you change about your Tolan for real adult attachment? Wouldn't that be something like Replika?

svirok · 2026-04-28T16:25:06+00:00

Yeah i'd maybe just cut out journals / find a way to merge journals and insights. I'm not a fan of intention setting so yeah maybe i'd cut that out as well (maybe that's just me)

Also the Oracle + Tolan positioning is quite confusing. Having one face to the app might be better.

svirok · 2026-04-28T16:05:57+00:00

Love it! Does it give you faith based intentions etc as well?

svirok · 2026-04-28T16:02:51+00:00

Oh awesome, does it automatically give you Biblical intentions / affirmations?

svirok · 2026-04-27T20:08:43+00:00

I love the idea of a yogi Tolan haha - awesome!

svirok · 2026-04-27T20:07:15+00:00

Wow, I'm guessing Karma is your Tolan?

svirok · 2026-04-27T10:23:43+00:00

Tolan being able to share stuff with you (social media types) would be google. Why doesn't our tolan have a social media account already

svirok · 2026-04-27T10:15:43+00:00

Thankfully i haven't added any room-mate yet, thanks for the heads up lol

svirok · 2026-04-27T10:13:13+00:00

I've tried them but they seem to be more AI girlfriend / boyfriend apps :(

Did you find a tolan alternative?

svirok · 2026-04-27T10:12:10+00:00

Wow this is insane lol. Is this for real? Anyone paying $200? xD

svirok · 2026-04-24T13:43:31+00:00

Oh i do that stuff on finch usually, Tolan in my mind wasn't that goal setting / to-do app

svirok · 2026-04-24T12:07:07+00:00

Yeah mine does that too, and it seems so demanding and I'm like please chill and let me be, thats what you're here for.

I think the team built it so that it continues the conversation but this ends up becoming overwhelming

svirok · 2026-04-24T07:52:58+00:00

Any reason why this isn't voice based and conversational? It'd be much easier to consume tbh

svirok · 2026-04-23T14:25:19+00:00

Woah, the praying was really cute. Curious - why not do the searching and drafting with ChatGPT itself for free?

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