Refind
Brings back the things you saved in a chat and then forgot you had.
The problem
Everything useful you have ever been told by an AI is sitting in a chat log you will never scroll back through. The ideas are not lost, exactly — they are filed in the worst possible order, which is the order you happened to ask for them. So you ask again, and get a slightly worse version of an answer you already have.
The insight
Treat the transcript as a store rather than a record. If conversations are broken into their actual contents and grouped by project instead of by session, the useful part surfaces on its own, and the thing you needed comes back to you instead of waiting to be searched for.
How it works
- Chats, notes and ideas are pulled in from the places they already live.
- Each conversation is broken down into the distinct things it actually contains.
- Those pieces are grouped into projects rather than left in session order.
- What is relevant is resurfaced against what you are working on now.
Materials and process
Web application. Three tiers priced and chargeable — free, $12, $29.
What exists now
Live at refindai.app, and it won a $2,000 Replit buildathon. It also has almost no real users: roughly four genuine sign-ups ever, none active in the last three months. The traffic figure this product was once described by — 312 users — was bot noise, and citing it is banned in Auston's own notes. Both halves are true at once, which is why they are both on the label.
Next: Ten real people who use it and come back. Not a pricing change — the price and the checkout both already work.