Use Less AI
Protect your focus by resisting AI over-reliance
What this is
A macOS app to help you notice and resist reflexively reaching for AI tools before trying to solve a problem yourself, a habit and focus tool, not an AI blocker.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- A macOS app that inserts a moment of reflection before you open an AI tool like ChatGPT or Claude, prompting you to think about what you've already tried, and locally tracks how often you reach for AI versus solve things yourself.
- What's different
- Encourages more deliberate AI use rather than blocking AI apps outright.
- Pricing
- Free.
- Best for
- People who notice themselves reflexively reaching for AI before attempting a problem and want to rebuild the habit of trying first.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 18 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Other. Launched 18d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #511. Today, it's been quiet for 15 days and the price has started to bleed.
Already bleeding a little every day, and it accelerates the longer it stays quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Shipping record
2 separate days we saw this ship · Jan 30 → Jun 10 · source: changelog
Beyan değil kanıt: founder “çalışıyoruz” diye post atabilir, ama sevk ettiyse izi kalır. ⚠️ Kaydı olmayan ürün “sevk etmedi” demek değildir — o üründe izleyecek bir kaynağımız yok demektir.
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #511 on PeerPush with 3 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 4 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 16 olay var. 1 quiet day in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Hi everyone, we're Jan and Antoni, the creators of use less AI. Recently, we noticed ourselves reaching for AI before even attempting to solve problems. We did not just use AI for difficult problems but for things we could have figure out ourselves if we had given it just a little more thought. We were getting worried about our future and asked ourselves what would happen if AI just didn't exist tomorrow. Could we do the same tasks without AI? So we came to the conclusion to build use less AI, a macOS app that adds a moment of reflection before using AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude. Instead of blocking AI apps entirely, use less AI encourages a more internal use and asks users to think about what they've already tried before prompting. With our usage analytics dashboard, use less AI locally tracks how much you are using AI and how often you actually do not need it. This is great for you getting insights into your usual AI usage. We are not anti-AI, we use it ourselves everyday. But we believe that there is a difference in using AI to support thinking and using AI to replace thinking. use less AI is available for free for macOS at our website: https://use-less-ai.com This is our first public release and we'd love your feedback: - Have you ever felt yourself becoming overly reliant on AI? - Where do you think the line is between helpful assistance and over dependence? - What features would you like to see us develop in a tool like this? Thanks for checking out our small little tool.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 3 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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