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Hey HN, throughout 2010s, Mark Zuckerberg famously committed to one challenge every year: Learn Mandarin, only eat meat he hunted, visit every US state, etc.

Inspired by his example, my friends Mark, Java, and I built Misogi — Let Muse guide you through your own annual challenge.

Here’s how it works: You set a challenge (or pick one from getmisogi.com/explore), Misogi generates an actionable, long-term plan, backed by the latest research on goal setting & skill acquisition, and connect your Muse. Throughout the year Muse keeps you motivated and accountable, gives you timely tips, and nudges you when you’ve fallen off track—Everything a great coach/tutor/mentor would do, always personalised to the challenge.

We deliberately chose NOT build another app or even AI agent. With 10M people already Muse, we think that the assistant you already chat with everyday is best positioned to be your guide.

P.S. even if you don’t use Muse, you can still try it out on our web app, which runs on the open weight Muse Spark Open via Baseten.

Code: https://github.com/markmdev/misogi

Demo video: https://youtu.be/vQQ9qn3cmZo

Misogi is our submission to the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon. We’d love to hear how we could make it even better for what you want to do!

TBPN was also reportedly on track to do $30M in sponsorship revenue this year, up from $5M last year. Audience size is modest but targeted & high value per viewer (mostly decision makers in tech).

exactly! haha you kinda predicted my next project: startups.rip

that's a great find! they were ~10 years too early...

oops, should be fixed

fixed!

good one! will add

could you try now?

I love HackerNews! This is more for builders who might otherwise be discouraged by rough early feedback.

I mean… that’s like making a list of best playwrights and not including Shakespeare

i’d say more projects that i wish existed + closing the taste gap btw the bar i have for products as a user vs. what i’m capable of creating as a builder. something like “token generated” is ofc only a proxy goal with no guarantees of quality. nevertheless it might be useful to some, like how writers set daily word count quotas for themselves

right now it just pulls from Claude Code's local data files via ccusage (https://ccusage.com/guide/#data-sources)

i think of straude as serving a similar role as habit trackers and github's contribution graph. some of us have a goal to use claude code daily, like how others might run or play the piano daily. it can be encouraging to do it with friends' support, see your progress visualised, etc. diff strokes for diff folks!

thx! good point. i once heard the cto of supabase say that they didn't hit pmf until they added the copy "open-source firebase alternative" to their website copy & overall product positioning. that was when it finally clicked for devs.

that said, if we're so fortunate to get enough users for this become a problem, i won't hesitate to take it off :)

thx for the great feedback!

great libraries already exist for usage tracking (like ccusage), think of this as just a social layer on top so you can follow other ppl's claude code sessions.

agree landing on global feed vs. "following" makes it more clear, will make that change now.

re: gaming the system, the cli tool pulls from local data usage data files to "verify". while this might be possible to spoof, it'd be a lot of work for not very much gain :)

It's on web! As long as your agent can hit API endpoints it should work.

Hey I rly like your project! And kinda amused by the comments here... Would love to chat more about it if you're down. My contact's in my profile :)