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Pleasantries

Details

External ID
49175791
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Pleasantries
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Aug. 4, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.12634408602150538
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

Pre-hook scripts for AI coding CLIs that block pleasantry-only prompts like "hi", "hello", "ok", "thank you", etc. Send a real task, not a greeting.

Enrichment

Theme
AI text humanizers and detectors
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
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Audience
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AI stance
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Project type
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Normalized one-liner
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Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a simple CLI pre-execution hook script that regex-matches common greeting strings to intercept and abort non-actionable prompts.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 134 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #119 of 135 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.

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