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24 alternatives to Connecting People Through AI-Powered Video Sentiment Matching

Hi HN, I’d like to share www.kuky.com, a peer support network that connects people through short, self-recorded videos and matches them using sentiment analysis powered by large language models (LLMs). We’re building Kuky to help users find others who genuinely understand their emotional journey—not through swiping or likes, but through shared human stories. In this short Loom demo (link above), I walk through how: Users create a profile by uploading 3 videos: an intro, their mental health journey, and their likes/dislikes LLMs analyze each video for emotional tone, key themes, and…

Kuky is a peer support network that connects users through short self-recorded videos rather than traditional swiping or likes. The platform uses AI-powered sentiment analysis to match people based on emotional tone… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Kuky▲109

    Make real connections to share emotional experiences & heal

    2025 · app.kuky.com · its alternatives →

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    Social media video analytics with Video AI

    2024 · kuasarvideo.com · its alternatives →

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    Lessie AI▲406

    Hi HN! I’m Yanjun, co-founder of Lessie AI. We built Lessie AI as a People Search AI Agent — designed to help you find anyone in seconds: - Influencers for campaigns - Partners for collaborations - Experts for insights - Founders or investors to connect with Instead of spending hours doing LinkedIn / Google searches, Lessie automates the whole workflow: - Understand your request — type what you need, any role or profile - Search across multiple data sources — trying different strategies to find the right people - AI review + scoring — profiles are automatically filtered and ranked so…

    Apr 2026 · lessie.ai · its alternatives →

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    Smart social media analytics

    2016 · kuku.io · its alternatives →

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    Unravel▲117

    You talk, and it automatically builds a visual network of your beliefs, thoughts, desires, and more. The system extracts concepts like beliefs, emotions, and cognitive distortions, then updates a force-directed graph showing how everything connects. Recurring nodes naturally drift toward the center as the graph expands, revealing your core themes. It isn’t intended for therapeutic use. It’s a tool that makes you introspect and helps uncover the driving factors behind your issues instead of trying to solve the problem and suggest solutions (although you can ask it for solutions when needed).…

    Nov 2025 · unravelmind.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Murror AI▲140

    AI to help battle loneliness and build relationships

    Dec 2025 · murror.app · its alternatives →

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    With more traffic moving off-web and into LLMs, I got curious about what traces we leave "in the weights". My design partner and I built a site in the past few weeks that checks recognition across frontier and small models. It queries many of them in parallel, clusters the responses, and tells you how strongly they recognize you. Happy to answer any questions here!

    Jun 2026 · intheweights.com · its alternatives →

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    Privacy-first emotion AI for Google Meet in real time

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Dom, a solo founder. I built Second Brain to solve a common issue I had with AI chats: the knowledge disappears. There’s no structure, no memory, and no way to reuse or build on them. So I built a tool that combines AI chat with a visual, interconnected knowledge system. Key features: - Save AI responses into editable docs (Notion-style Pages). - AI Visual board with multiple content & chat nodes (like Miro meets ChatGPT). - Add and chat with YouTubes, TikToks, Audio, PDFs, GitHub repos, Looms, websites, etc. - Organize using Projects and Smart Tags — then chat with full contexts.…

    2025 · second-brain-lac-ten.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, thank you for being a part of the internet we love. We’re Arnav, Mo, Jeremy and we’re building an “Internet for-you page” that recommends blogs and essays based on your interests. Try it here (https://www.browserbuddy.com/)! We love to discover and learn from personal blogs, essays, and articles on the internet. But despite exciting advancements in language modeling, it’s felt harder to discover interesting links from real people. We believe there is untapped potential to use these language models as “curators” rather than “creators”. To explore this, we’re building a…

    Dec 2025 · browserbuddy.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11IB

    Hi there! When Supabase announced their recent hackathon, I thought it was a good time to build something to learn more about so many of the new AI models and tech out there. From the different techniques of embedding documents to the future RAG. With the rise of short form content with TikTok and Youtube. A lot more knowledge is in videos than ever before. Finding specific answers within millions of videos can be difficult for any one person to go through. So the question is if there is Google that indexes text on website making it easier to find based on the context of on your question,…

    2023 · avse.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Create music by analyzing emotions or pick the perfect track

    2024 · face-tune-fronte.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I made Ethos, an open-source tool to visualize the discourse on Hacker News. It extracts entities, tracks sentiment, and groups discussions by concept. Check it out: https://ethos.devrupt.io This was a "budget build" experiment. I managed to ship it for under $1 in infra costs. Originally I was using `qwen3-8b` for the LLM and `qwen3-embedding-8b` for the embedding, but I ran into some capacity issues with that model and decided to use `llama-3.1-8b-instruct` to stay within a similar budget while having higher throughput. What LLM or embedding would you have used within the…

    Feb 2026 · ethos.devrupt.io · its alternatives →

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    eQ for happier & more productive video meetings

    2020 · mood-me.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore and run AI code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from Hacker News: All Posts, Stories, Ask/Show HN, etc

    2020 · kaggle.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover like-minded people (using machine learning)

    2017 · heyharmonic.ai · its alternatives →

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    Audience insights with the power of AI

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Canvs▲76

    Helps TV networks track viewers’ emotions

    2016 · canvs.ai · its alternatives →

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    Let AI watch videos on Youtube, Tiktok, Instagram.

    2024 · kuasarvideo.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21AS

    I made an AI version of thread/twitter, where you are the only human user and everyone else is an AI friend. It’s called Melonn(melonn.xyz), a human-free AI social space. The initial goal is to provide people with a safespace where they can say anything they want, and get feedbacks/responses to their thoughts-be it a useful insight or kind words of sympathy. If you ever feel lonely, lost, bored or sad just come here and express how you feel without having to care about what others would think. We are actively looking for feedbacks/opinions to improve the service! Thank you.

    2024 · melonn.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Asya▲16

    An AI app that analyzes emotions in voice and gives topics

    2020 · asya.ai · its alternatives →

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    Analyse sentiments of people from Twitter using Emotion AI

    2023 · emotion-ai.alisolanki.com · its alternatives →

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