Adding friction to my automatic open Claude reaction
Details
- External ID
- 49325617
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Aug. 17, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3125
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I've been reaching for claude way too often and wanted to add some friction. Give myself a chance to think about whether or not it's actually necessary :')https://github.com/aqureshi8/claudeconfirm
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- reduce automatic ai tool invocations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple CLI script or browser/system shortcut wrapper that prompts the user with a confirmation modal or delay before opening Claude.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
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- claude-code-tips-tricks · github · 2026-09-13 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Declaude · hn · 2026-08-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Claude is getting an attitude · hn · 2026-07-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Claudaholic · hn · 2026-07-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I made Claude Code listen before it codes (MIT) · hn · 2026-04-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Edgee Claude Code Compressor · ph · 2026-03-22 · 215 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Simple plugin to get Claude Code to listen to you · hn · 2026-03-13 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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