AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Garry Tan's Golden Shadow – Save Your Startup AI Coach
I made Golden Shadow, a micro-app based on Garry's latest YouTube video, Save Your Startup, Unleash Your Golden Shadow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJ9cyYrLbY). AI reflection coach for Jung's exercise. Reflection questions and experiments are personalized based on your responses. Planning on creating a holistic self-improvement app that addresses issues not solved before in complete personal growth. Disclaimer: This may save your startup and unleash your golden shadow.
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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Shadow 2.0▲529Hi HN, We built Shadow, a real-time meeting assistant that listens to your call and surfaces useful prompts while you’re speaking. The idea came from a simple observation: during important conversations (sales calls, founder meetings, interviews) you often realize the best question or insight 5 minutes too late. Shadow tries to solve that by acting like a quiet wingman during the call. What it does right now: • Tracks agenda topics so conversations don’t drift • Suggests follow-up questions based on what’s being said • Surfaces useful facts or angles in real time This is still an early MVP…
May 2026 · shadowlabs.ai · its alternatives →
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Zeno▲244Hey guys well basically…yeah…I hate GoogleNoteLLM and other AI YouTube Summarizers. They feel meh…boring. I actually like youlearn.ai but it’s built for students. So, as a builder. I built my own AI YouTube Curator, Zeno, and hit #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt. What I can say is that Zeno is your AI-powered second brain for YouTube. Ah, btw now it’s fully optimized for mobile, with the most evolutionary features in the AI YouTube summary space yet. The best part? Since this last update, I’ve stopped using YouTube. I only Zeno. With Zeno 2.0 on mobile, you can: Import your favorite…
2025 · youzeno.com · its alternatives →
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Canopy▲133Practice interviewing with legendary founders and investors
2023 · canopylabs.ai · its alternatives →
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I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it. * Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily. * Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings. * Populate info from clients you control. I wanted…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eiren AI▲8Over the past year, I’ve been building a deeply personal project called Eiren AI — a mindfulness and growth app designed to help people reduce overwhelm, stay grounded, and make daily progress toward their goals. It's built on a simple but powerful idea: What if your personal growth app could think with you? Not just track tasks, but also support your emotions, help you journal, and generate meditations based on how you feel? Eiren AI helps users: -Turn visions into structured goals and daily tasks with AI support. -Reflect through journaling (with templates + AI autocomplete). -Generate…
2025 · eiren.ai · its alternatives →
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I saw this app youlearn.ai on YC and thought of building it. They are claiming to have 1M+ users with just one feature which is to convert your learning material into summaries, quizzes etc. I gave this a shot and cloned almost most of the features in just 9+ hours of continous vibe coding (with 20% manual though). Now I'm selling this on mvp marketplace. Might probably open source it in future or give it free.
2025 · ai-tutor.mvpwrappers.com · its alternatives →
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AI-powered shadow work app based on C.G. Jung psychology
Feb 2026 · shadow-integrator.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN I built a fun little tool: It uses Groq’s LLaMA 3.3 + Puppeteer to analyze a website Then it roasts the design/content/UX with humor And finishes with 3–5 genuinely helpful improvement tips You can try it here: https://ai-roast-vert.vercel.app I wanted to: Practice fast idea-to-launch cycle (built in 2 days) Experiment with a viral-friendly product Monetize with a $0.55 pro version that gives a detailed roast + download Would love your feedback — on the idea, the tone, the usefulness — anything! Thanks in advance
2025 · ai-roast-vert.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hello hackernews, I am looking for feedback for Labophase.com which is a app that focuses on returning results from multiple ai models at the same time. I currently support: GPT4-Turbo, Claude-2, Google PaLM2, Llama2, Mistral, and OpenOrca. Working on supporting Gemini soonTM. I built it to solve a couple of personal pains I experienced. After reaching out to a couple of users in r/localllama, seems that people would have similar approach to address hallucination, availability, and comparing ai models. Initial feedback came in with some surprises that I'm hoping to get feedback from the…
2023 · labophase.com · its alternatives →
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Gnothi▲11This project grew out of an admittedly niche interest in western philosophy, and my own post-cancer treatment journaling habit. You select a topic and it'll draw a passage from somewhere in the western philosophical canon (most times!) and serve up a handful of reflection prompts to nudge an offline reflection sesh. (whatever that might mean for you?) Otherwise, you can bookmark and share your favs and filter sources and that's about it! The idea here was to create a thing that may help serve to nudge us away from the day-to-day autopilot, and hopefully contribute toward building a healthy…
Oct 2025 · gnothi.app · its alternatives →
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Your journey to self-reflection and balance.
2025 · tenkan.discoveryourjourney.info · its alternatives →
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Breaks down overwhelming goals into realistic
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Click-to-build studio for AI photo & video prompts
Jul 2026 · golden-prompts.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Thank you for all the support and feedback on my original submission 2 months ago. I've been improving the backend using a MCTS/AlphaZero approach and it's currently producing much better results. My long term goal is to allow users to manage multiple projects, deployed autonomously, both from scratch and by making continual updates all prompted with natural language. The cost of each project has been lowered to $9 as performance with smaller models has improved (I migrated from Claude-3-Opus to gemini-1.5-flash). Thanks for checking it out!
2024 · saas-quick.com · its alternatives →
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Discover your chill factor with AI
2024 · chillguyanalyzer.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Private AI reflection app with PDF export
Jul 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hello there! I hope you're doing well today! I wanted to share something with you. Recently I was on the hunt for the best way to journal daily. Well, I had this idea - what if I could feed all my daily entries to an AI (ChatGPT), and create a friendly, supportive character like Socrates or Simon Sinek? This way, I could ask any questions about my life and mental health, and get some amazing advice on how to improve myself! The results have been absolutely mind-blowing ! I even made a short GIF to show you how it works - check it out! - https://gifyu.com/image/SdHLH I've…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Journal smarter: cards, prompts, AI coaching – all private
Jan 2026 · journalingapp.app · its alternatives →
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Brutally honest AI design critiques for your website
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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NO API KEY NO INTERN NO CLOSED
Jan 2026 · singhprince4887-arch.github.io · its alternatives →
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Daily Reflection with AI Coach
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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b4zero▲7It started out when I thought about how to help founder to validate their idea, not just coming up one but how to turn the idea into real business by not relying on AI but making them more involved into their product, understand the market by doing research, check what user want. It's like a checklist, a step for someone who want to get start. This is not an AI to go tool, it's a tool to drag user back to reality, simple but important. I don't think I'm gonna make money with it so I decide it will be a free to use. Use referral code "beyondzero" to sign up. Thanks
Nov 2025 · b4zero.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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