Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning
Details
- External ID
- 46923304
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built an open source desktop AI assistant after getting frustrated with how brittle most tools feel once questions go beyond basic Q and A.The goal was to explore whether an assistant could reliably handle interview style interactions such as system design discussions, multi step coding problems, and deeper follow up questioning without hiding behavior behind a closed SaaS.The assistant supports both cloud and local LLMs, uses a bring your own API key model, and is intentionally opinionated so behavior stays predictable under pressure.Most of the work went into managing context, follow ups, and failure cases rather than optimizing for fast single shot answers.I used Antigravity heavily during development to iterate quickly, then refined and validated the behavior manually.Repository https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistantHappy to answer questions about design tradeoffs, local versus cloud inference, or what worked and failed while building this.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai-powered learning and skills training
- Vertical
- HR & recruiting
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai assistant for interview reasoning
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an Electron or Tauri desktop wrapper utilizing structured prompting and reasoning LLM APIs to conduct mock technical interviews.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cluely
Concerns raised: Limited model support (only Gemini and Groq currently), Model agnosticism vs. opinionated assistant trade-off unclear
Feature requests: Support for more LLM providers/models, Curl-style requests for custom endpoints and local models, Nudge users to verbalize reasoning before writing code
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 156 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #149 of 157 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 89 days after the earliest competitor.
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- OpenAI-Interview-Notes · github · 2026-09-22 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ai-coding-interview-practice · github · 2026-09-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Open-Source Interview Platform · hn · 2026-07-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- CareerAce — AI Interview · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Chestnut · hn · 2026-04-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Solvea · ph · 2026-03-31 · 215 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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