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I deleted the chat feature from my own AI product. Here's what I built instead.

DEV Community·David Hamilton·26 days ago
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I deleted the chat feature from my AI product. The irony writes itself. A small Chrome extension whose entire purpose is bringing AI to your saved content. The first thing I cut was the AI-shaped feature. It was the easiest call I've made on this build. Three reasons. Each one obvious in hindsight. API costs. A back-and-forth chat conversation eats £1-2 a month in tokens per active user. My Pro tier is £4 a month. The maths doesn't work the day you launch. It only gets worse with scale. Product bloat. A chat box is the kind of thing you build because every other AI product has one. It looks like the AI feature. It isn't. V2. If users actually want to chat with their bookmarks, they'll tell me. I'd rather build it then than guess now. The product is called ContextBolt. It captures your bookmarks from X, Reddit, and LinkedIn. It auto-tags each one with Claude. And then it does something most products in 2026 still don't. It exposes itself to Claude. Pro users get a personal MCP endpoint.…

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