I got tired of AI chat apps that felt weird or fake, so I started building my own
I kept downloading AI chat apps and deleting them a day later.
Most of them felt either:
- too robotic
- weirdly oversexualized
- or emotionally fake in a way I couldn’t really explain.
What I actually wanted was something simpler:
an AI that feels like a warm, funny friend you can talk to late at night when your brain won’t slow down.
So I started building it.
I’m not a coder — I’ve basically been using AI tools to build the whole thing, which has been equal parts exciting and chaotic.
It’s called Lumi.
The first landing page just went live this week, and now I’m trying to figure out whether this idea actually resonates with other people too.
Would you ever use an AI mainly for comfort, conversation, or just unwinding a bit at night?