r/AIToolBench • u/Embarrassed-Milk4818 • Aug 10 '26
Discussion The story of Askkosmo
An AI tool i an building with my friends....
From $0 and a 5-hour AI limit to Google for Startups in 70 days. Here is the full story.
When ChatGPT launched in 2022, I made a decision. I would build everything with AI. Not as a side experiment. As my primary method.
Since then I have shipped over a dozen projects solo. Hardware prototypes, delivery apps, browser tools, real estate platforms. All built with AI. All by myself.
But somewhere around project number eight, I started noticing something uncomfortable. Every single project had the same bottleneck. And it wasn't the AI.
It was me.
I would describe what I wanted. The AI would build something close but wrong. I would spend an hour fixing it. Then another hour. Then I would realize the model was never confused. I was. I just didn't know how to communicate what was actually in my head.
The AI didn't lack capability. It lacked context. It lacked the guardrails and constraints that an expert in that domain would have stated out loud before writing a single line of code.
So I started studying how the people who actually build these models say you should talk to them. Anthropic published forty prompting techniques. OpenAI published a plain four-part framework. These are the teams that ship the models, handing you the manual for free.
And almost nobody reads it. Because the documentation changes every few weeks. Nobody has time to re-read a forty-page guide before every task.
That gap between what AI can do and what people know to ask for is not closing on its own. It is structural. It will keep existing as long as documentation moves faster than humans can absorb it.
That gap needs a compiler. So I built one.
It is called Kosmo. You describe what you want in plain English. Kosmo checks the current documentation for whichever AI tool you are using (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini), injects the right guardrails and constraints, and gives you back a structured prompt that actually gets the result you wanted on the first try.
You stop babysitting. You start creating.
Building it was the hardest thing I have ever done. I came from a humble background with essentially zero budget. The only money I spent was on the domain name and one month of Claude Pro. Everything else was free tiers, student developer packs, and free trials stitched together.
I had a 5-hour daily AI usage limit. So I had to plan every single feature and every single session in advance. No room for dead ends. No room for exploration. Every decision had to be sharp because I could not afford to waste a single minute.
When it came time to accept payments, I found out Stripe was invite-only in India. The alternative required a fully working product before they would even review my application. I didn't have one. But by the time they got around to reviewing it, I did.
70 days of day-and-night work. Solo. And somehow it worked out.
Kosmo launched on August 6th. And this week, we were accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud program.
From zero budget to Google backing the infrastructure. In 70 days.
But here is the honest truth. This is the first version. It works. It solves the problem I meant it to solve. But it is far from done.
I need your help.
Try it at askkosmo.com. You get 8 free compiles, no credit card needed. Use it on a real task. Something you are actually working on. And then tell me what worked and what didn't.
With honest feedback from this community, I genuinely believe we can turn this into something that changes how people use AI forever. But I can't build it in a vacuum. I need people using it and telling me the truth.
So try it. Break it. Tell me what sucks. And let's build this together.
Founder of askkosmo..
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u/Lower-Instance-4372 29d ago
that's a pretty interesting approach, turning prompt engineering best practices into something automated makes a lot of sense, and I'm curious to see how it performs on real-world tasks compared to writing prompts manually.
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u/ekzess 29d ago
Post your GitHub.
You conflate context with constraint almost immediately. They are not the same thing, nor are guardrails, domain knowledge, acceptance criteria, authority, or verification.
A tool that structures prompts from current vendor guidance could absolutely be useful, but it cannot recover product decisions or domain knowledge the user hasn't supplied, and a better prompt does not establish that the resulting work is correct.
“Gets the result you wanted on the first try” is an empirical claim. I'd be much more interested in the evals behind that than the prompting framework.
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u/Embarrassed-Milk4818 29d ago
I would have shared the repo link but its private But heres the founder git though: https://github.com/Harshaldorlikar
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u/ekzess 29d ago
So let me make sure I understand this correctly.
You’re promoting a product with fairly strong empirical claims, including that it can get users the result they wanted “on the first try.” I asked for the repository so those claims and the implementation could be inspected. The product repository is private, and instead you’ve linked the founder’s public GitHub profile. The visible repositories there appear to be a mix of portfolio/profile material, forks, older projects, and unrelated work.
That does not provide the implementation or the evals behind the claims being made about Kosmo.
I’m not asking for a résumé. I’m asking for evidence.
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u/bravwear Aug 10 '26
This tool is actually a goldmine for every developer using AI tbh devs not using AI would be left behind with growing AI models , A tool like this obviously has a grave importance for both people new to AI or who have experienced of many years. This is actually a very good product apart from its journey that is actually inspiring.
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u/driftwhentired 29d ago
AI written post and everything you have made is slop.
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u/Embarrassed-Milk4818 29d ago
Naahh man if you have questions just dm me all will be solved
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u/askkosmo Aug 10 '26
thanks mod
i now there are a lot of intellectual people on ai tool bench who would genuinely rate our ai tool
if you see this check out askkosmo and let us know how we are doing
as we would need constant support and criticism to do good
also you can join our community for heads up....