An attempt to grow a mind
building software with an inner life
Details
- External ID
- 47953676
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- An attempt to grow a mind
- Website domain
- momentbymoment.app
- Launched
- April 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7062982005141388
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai developer tools and coding assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- software with simulated inner life
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end companion app is standard, but creating a system where an AI agent genuinely develops a persistent, non-resettable, evolving internal memory state without degradative drift is an unsolved research problem.
What it would actually take: Requires an architecture pairing an LLM with dynamic state machines, hierarchical associative memory graphs (episodic + semantic memory databases), and reinforcement updates to simulate personality drift without context-window forgetting. Developing this requires cognitive architecture and deep ML alignment/prompt-memory engineering.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Tlon's bot with persistent memory
Concerns raised: Data privacy with LLM providers and API traffic, Growing token costs as memory accumulates, User dependency on third-party services, Google Sign-in undermines messaging and feels exploitative, LLM calls in background represent high operational costs
Feature requests: Regular signup method without Google Auth, Better UI presentation that doesn't feel discordant with aesthetic
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1153 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #345 of 1154 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 182 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dream-RSI · github · 2026-09-13 · 467 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Logical: The Proactive Desktop Copilot · yc · 2025-11-07 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- deskport · github · 2026-09-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Filiz · hn · 2026-08-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- interfaces-that-think · github · 2026-09-28 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A primer for non-coders to design software via structured AI dialogue · hn · 2026-07-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- building-with-jev-skill · github · 2026-09-17 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LiveDemo · ph · 2026-04-21 · 171 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.