Pleasantries
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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.
HN · launched Aug 4, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 157 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
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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 : 352 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #317 of 353 (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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