The "personal AI agent" is what everyone's fighting over now. You have Grok Bots, Facebook's Muse, and Instinct doing this exact same thing already. Personally, I think Instinct is the best of the 3 right now. It's a bit like OpenClaw, abstracting everything behind iMessage or WhatsApp but you can ask it to monitor your email inbox, hand off a task like check for apartments that fit a certain criteria (and it gets back to you days later when a new one is posted), or ask it to check in every so often. But the landscape changes so often who knows what will happen. I think Instinct will get eaten up by one of the larger firms.

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estearum 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I like Instinct because I like the idea of trusting a 22 year old founder who won't (or can't) describe the security model of something that has all your credentials. Completely fucking hilarious that people are using that shit. Fits the stereotype for VCs though!

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lxgr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's obviously a tragedy when non-sophisticated users provide their credentials without understanding the repercussions, but there are sophisticated users as well, and these hopefully only provide access and data they can bear to lose.

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hangrybear666 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's actually hilarious to only read on this page intermittently, after not engaging for like 3 weeks I'm presented with 3 new product names that all read like a comedian wrote their marketing. The blatant disregard for security and privacy to push out something most developers have utter disrespect for, I really wonder what the target audience is, cause I cannot relate one bit.

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digitaltrees 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But the browser lets you store credentials in local storage, what’s the problem?

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hollowturtle 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You're not asking this seriously arent you? Local storage follows strict security policies, go read the spec

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digitaltrees 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

Vibe coded apps storing api keys in local storage is a trope at this point isn't it?

	▲	hollowturtle 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That would be dumb and dangerous. That said local storage is used by all major frameworks/libraries for storing jwt tokens of the current session

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kh_hk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What is weird to me is that running your own assistant is a bit of a fad, or are you all still running them? I thought we were past openclaw already but this just looks like these companies chasing it.

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aniceperson 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

those are openclaw but skip the setup vps step for your regular joe, with the enormous downside of vendor lock-in and low/none customizability.