I used Claude Code a lot for this project, if you don't like that then this first sentence should help you out a bit. If you don't give a shit, it's a privacy thing and I'm a dude doing a thing with a thing: https://clotr.app/ https://github.com/clotr-app/clotr If you're still reading, cool. I'm not an idiot, but I might be a little silly. I'm a mechanic turned to IT geek, in my sophomore year for a bachelors in Computer Science at the ripe age of 33. I fixed people's cars and helped them out, but my body is fucking killing me and I just can't do that anymore. I built Clotr because I'm silly. I like to ask dumb niche questions. For example, I've got a 2006 Honda Gold Wing with .... and now some company knows what I'm driving. We all do it. In a chat to support. Asking an AI how to unfuck something. You drip your life into these companies whose only job is to collect your information and sell it. I'm a disabled vet. I've got time. I don't have money. I can't buy the parts and fix your car, but I can put a 'check engine oil' sticker in the window. Clotr is my check engine light for just existing online in the modern day. Right now it lives in your browser and watches what you type into AI chats, 19 of them out of the box, plus the email and chat apps you switch on. If something sensitive might be getting out, it lets you know and gives you the time you need to think about it. That's where it is. Here's where I want it to go. My wife and I were looking at going to a concert, so we looked up the prices and plane tickets. Not but a few minutes later we both start getting ads on our phones for things around the concert. Clotr can't stop that yet. That's the kind of leak I want it to catch, and I can't get there alone. Right now it's just a browser extension, because I'm trying to keep Claude at MY level. I've had an immense amount of scope creep just with this, so I want to iron it out first. The source code is open, so check it out. I need real use cases, real reports on bugs, real quality of life things. I built this tailored to my own life, and I need insight that isn't me. In the beginning it's going to warn you quite a few times. It doesn't learn you, it works off patterns and deterministic values, IE you typed something credit card length, is this a credit card? You can turn things down in Settings. Right now it's annoying, but your reports and insight are what's going to make this actually practical. I want a suit of armor around the world. From big data. From AI. Teamwork makes the dreamwork. I don't want any money. I want your time. Your time and your consideration for people less competent than you. I want Clotr to be something we all install on our kids and grandparents machines because it doesn't get in their way but protects them from themselves. I wrote this post myself, slightly drunk. Mildly pissed off at the world. Claude checked my facts and helped me say what it can't do yet. Don't hold it against me. I'm human. Roast me. Rate me. I don't care. Whatever you have to say is going to be taken into consideration and could help other people in the future. Bring it.   submitted by   /u/not-a-painting [link]   [comments]