I asked an AI to roast me, and ended up building an app

It started with a TikTok.

You've probably seen the trend, the one where people type "roast me based on everything you know about me" into an AI and brace for impact. I was up too late, in that wired-but-tired state where scrolling feels like rest and isn't, so I tried it.

The roast was accurate. Painfully so. It told me I had a hundred browser tabs open, ideas scattered everywhere, a dozen projects half-started, and a habit of chasing the next thought before finishing the last one. It read me like a book I hadn't meant to leave open.

But somewhere in the middle of being roasted, something shifted. I realized the AI wasn't wrong about the chaos, and I also realized I didn't actually want it to stop. The hundred tabs weren't the problem. The problem was that nothing held them. Every idea lived alone, disconnected, evaporating before it could meet the idea it belonged with. What I wanted wasn't a tidier mind. It was something that could catch all of it, lay it out, and show me how it fit together.

So I built that.

What SolasVine actually is

SolasVine is a voice-first thinking partner. You talk through an idea out loud and it maps your thoughts in real time. As you speak, branches grow. Threads connect. It remembers what you said three sessions ago and brings it back when it's relevant. And it pushes back, asks the sharp question, names the thing you're circling, instead of just nodding along.

It's less like a notes app and more like thinking with someone who's actually paying attention and not glazing.

What it looks like in practice

Here's a real way I use it.

I write essays about film and consciousness, and the hardest part has never been the writing. It's finding the angle, the one true thread that turns a movie I love into something worth saying. I used to sit with a blank page and force it.

Now I open SolasVine and just talk. I'll start rambling about a film, what it made me feel, the scene I can't stop thinking about, the half-formed idea underneath it. And as I talk, the map grows. The themes branch off on their own. I watch the through-line appear, the connection I couldn't see when it was all trapped in my head. By the time I stop talking, I don't have notes. I have a structure. The outline is half-built before I've written a word.

That's the thing I couldn't do with tabs and sticky notes and a brain that moves too fast. The ideas needed somewhere to land and connect. Now they have it.

If your mind does this too

If you're the kind of person who has too many thoughts and not enough threads, who gets roasted by AI for having a hundred tabs open, this might be for you. It's a soft launch, still rough in a few places, still finding its feet. But it's real, and people are using it.

Come think out loud. Watch it grow.