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In 2024, everyone pitched a 'digital clone' that would do your chores. By 2026, the question isn't whether AI can act for you, but how much context, permission, and autonomy you actually want to hand over.
AI Town made me realize an AI character did not have to exist only inside an empty chat window. That idea eventually led to Omni Companion: one companion, one living room, and a different way to think about presence.
I built an Omni experiment where sending an Instagram DM bootstrapped a guest account and started conversational onboarding. Removing signup friction was easy. Losing control of conversation boundaries was the interesting part.
I liked building Shopmatey with FlutterFlow. I moved away when owning the backend and keeping infrastructure costs predictable became more important than minimizing the first version.
Most apps make you choose between signing in and signing up. I eventually changed my backend and authentication architecture so the front door became a single button, letting the server figure out whether you exist.