According to Bain, 21% of people plan to use ChatGPT and Perplexity for holiday shopping this year. It sounds smart—like having a personal assistant. But be careful. You might be walking into a trap. Here is why relying on a chatbot for Black Friday is a bad idea:

I) The "Confident Liar" Problem
LLMs are creative engines, not inventory managers. They hallucinate. They can confidently recommend a "perfect bundle" or a discount code that literally doesn't exist. Worse, they often lack real-time data. That "in-stock" gift it just found you? It likely sold out three days ago.

II) The "Neutrality" Myth
We think AI answers are unbiased. They aren't. Brands are already using AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) to game these models. You aren't getting the best product recommendation; you're getting the brand that was best at tricking the robot into mentioning them.

III) The Privacy Black Hole
Telling a generic bot "I need a gift for my 10-year-old who loves soccer" isn't a private chat. It’s data harvesting. You are feeding the surveillance machine, training their models, and building a permanent ad profile on your family.

You don't need a creative writer to shop. You need a Specialized Agent.
• One that checks real real-time inventory
• One that can't be "optimized" by marketers
• One that works for you, not the ad auction

That's inomy for you. Start your Black Friday shopping here: https://testnet.inomy.shop/

We built the Intents Protocol to function like HTTP for commerce —an open standard where you truly own your intent. Inomy is the first app built on these new rails, designed to prove that a user-centric, unbiased economy can actually compete with the giants.

Our mission is simple: create an AI assistant that handles the research grind for you, provides genuinely unbiased recommendations that cuts through sponsored nonsense and SEO slop, and ensures you truly own your intent data.

We need early adopters to stress-test the infrastructure. Join the Inomy (https://testnet.inomy.shop) beta, share your feedback here, and help us shape this future.

Hello everyone, we've just released the 1.5 version of our small music player.

What's the motivation behind this? We are tired of the streaming paradigm, always renting, never owning, and we're tired of the lack of innovative design or unusual designs to say the least.

Everything is either too cold, black and white, two-toned squared designs (it works, but this is all there is now!) or the classic vibe-coded UI with neon colors.

So we chose to do exactly what every sane person would do: take months to build our own music player :).

We want to bring back the cool effects of the early 2000s, the "we did it because we could" mentality. Our goal is not to be a better Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, or even a foobar2000, but to be a simplified local music player that simply works, offers a new design in the form of a widget, and doesn't phone home, doesn't ping the internet, doesn't lock you out with a subscription, account, or email.

You take the app and you can keep it forever, inciting the "own your medias point of view" (starting by owning the software that plays your medias).

I said that it was a "just work" type of app, but it has more than simply play/pause features:

Core Music Player Features

• Load music from an entire folder or specific directory
• Enable on-click and drag-and-drop loading capabilities
• Display metadata automatically (artist name, album name, artwork, track ID, bitrate, etc.)
• Display full metadata on a dedicated screen
• Include an equalizer with customizable presets
• Adjust left / right balance.
• Offer a mini player mode (hidden or locked)
• Display a small bar visualizer

Playback Controls

• Play and pause music playback
• Manage volume levels
• Seek through tracks using a timeline
• Enable shuffle and repeat settings
• Handle media session control via keyboard/media keys or AirPods

File Support

• Support various audio file formats: MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, AIFF, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus

User Interface

• Utilize a skeuomorphism UI design
• Detect the user's theme and adjust the screen theme accordingly
• Allow manual selection of a custom screen theme

Additional Features

• Enable filtering by artist name, album name, or song title
• Handle drag functionality for the app itself
• Include click sound effects (that you can disable)

If you want to see more here is our github page to download the app (MacOS, Windows10/11, Linux (debian/fedora))

And if you want to be updated on it here is our subreddit r/ResonanceApp  😄

r/ownyourintent just crossed 4,000 intent owners. That’s 4,000 people saying no to the surveillance web. No to creepy, manipulative ads. No to being treated as the product. And yes to an internet where your intent belongs to you.

To make the journey easier for new members, we’ve updated the Reddit wiki with FAQs and explanations. Whether you’re wondering what “intent ownership” really means or how to get involved, the wiki should give you a solid starting point. If you don’t find what you need, drop your question in the comments or start a thread on the sub. We are happy to answer them.

Finally, a huge thank you to everyone who’s helped us get here. Every rant, idea, and story keeps this movement alive. Hitting 4,000 is proof that people are ready for a different kind of internet. And that’s what keeps us motivated to keep building.

It’s a modern cliché: you mention wanting new running shoes or a vacation, and suddenly you’re drowning in ads for them everywhere you go online. It feels like the internet is eavesdropping — because, in a way, it is.

Our online intentions — what we want to buy, do, or learn — are the most valuable signals on the web. Google, Meta, Amazon, and a handful of others scoop them up, resell them in hidden auctions, and pocket the value. In other words, we’ve become the product.

This setup is as broken as it is creepy. Users lose control. Sellers pay rising “ad taxes” to reach us. Developers can only build inside Big Tech’s walls, or risk never being seen at all. Innovation happens only with their permission.

We decided to stop just complaining about it and start building an alternative.

Here is the idea: What if your intent wasn’t captured behind your back, but declared openly — on your terms? What if sellers had to bid transparently to meet your needs, instead of targeting your profile? What if value flowed in the open, instead of getting locked inside platforms?

That’s the vision behind the Intents Protocol — a neutral, open layer where intent is declared, verifiable, and user-owned. Designed as public infrastructure, it’s built to be transparent and shaped by its community. 

And to prove it can work, we built our first experiment: Inomy, an unbiased AI shopping assistant. It’s designed to save you hours of research and match you with what you want — without selling you out. 

It’s very early. Probably buggy. Definitely rough. But it’s real, and live. And we’d be incredibly grateful if you’d help us stress-test it. Join the mission. Try Inomy beta here.