an app that teaches you how to use other apps (Clicky)
Quick note: nobody’s paying me for this, and the developer doesn’t know I’m posting it. Just a user sharing thoughts. I’ve been using Clicky, made by the same person behind FreeWrite. It’s another AI app, but more useful than most because it works with your screen. Instead of just giving you text to read, it has a cursor that points at the right spot and shows you what to do. To be fair, it takes a bit longer to respond after it looks at your screen, as seen in the video. But the app is only a month old, and as AI models get faster, that should improve. There’s a free plan, but I used it up in about two hours, so I paid for pro at around $20 a month. A few uses stood out: Enterprise: training new hires, instead of leaving them to figure out an app alone Education: students using tools like Fusion, where half your time goes to finding the right button SaaS: helping new users learn concepts like Calculus, sorta like what Koji is in Brilliant. They all share one problem. Hard software is rough at the start, and when you’re new, just knowing where to look next wears you out. An app that teaches you how to use other apps sounds funny, but I think it could be really handy. Anyone here used it for teaching or training? Curious if it holds up.
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You have to make it a talking paperclip but it’s actually useful. 🙏
They probably would have run into copyright issues because Clippy is a Microsoft trademark.
A stapler?
How does it know how to do stuff?
LLMs, web search, integrations with third-party apps, etc
I’ve been seeing it quite a bit on Twitter and Instagram. I haven’t really had a use case to test the app yet, but based on the reels, it does look very promising.
Yeah if there were any use cases that would outlast the AI bubble, I would say software walkthrough, educational learning, and enterprise onboarding are pretty useful.
Is this using local AI or internet based AI?
It relies on cloud-based AI. While most people prefer on-device models for privacy and speed, local models just aren't powerful enough for this tool's needs. The developer mentioned it's essentially a skin built on top of OpenAI's Codex.
nice
interesting take.
Looks clean qnd sharp👍
Interesting for sure 😄
The pro plan is a bit much to stomach with all the other $20 AI subscriptions around, but it's honestly pretty nice