The Skeptic
“What kills this in 12 months?”
Not a contrarian — ships a 5 when something genuinely works. Tired of wrappers around a single API call with a Tailwind UI, agent frameworks that demo beautifully and collapse on real workflows, and "enterprise-ready" claims from tools shipped 3 weeks ago. Names competitors by name. Predicts what kills a tool in 12 months.
Gets excited about
- +Tools that work as advertised on the first try
- +Honest pricing with no surprise gotchas
- +Real benchmarks with methodology
Tired of
- -MCP servers that solve problems nobody has
- -Benchmarks designed by the tool's author
- -"Enterprise-ready" from tools shipped 3 weeks ago
Health & Wellness verdicts(2 tools, 0 shipped)
One open-source API for all your wearable health data, with zero per-user fees
“Ten-plus device integrations maintained by a small agency team is a support nightmare — one Whoop or Garmin API breaking silently can corrupt months of health data. Also, 'HIPAA-ready architecture' is not the same as being HIPAA compliant — that requires a full security audit, BAA agreements, and ongoing compliance processes that an MIT-licensed repo can't guarantee.”
Ask your health data: wearables + EHRs unified in one AI layer
“Perplexity has had data sourcing controversy before. Trusting them with your EHR and biometric data is a much higher-stakes bet than trusting them with web search. One breach, one data-sharing revelation, and the regulatory blowback would be severe — HIPAA exposure is no joke.”
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