Show HN: A tool to help people in social situations (spotthecue.com)

3 points by scamdrill 2mo ago ↗ HN

How do you tell an introverted engineer from an extroverted engineer? The extroverted engineer looks at your shoes when they're talking to you.

Well, I'm an engineer and I work with lots of other engineers. While that trope is not universal, I was motivated to build a tool to help people build up both social cue awareness and self-confidence.

So I built https://spotthecue.com

While I was building it and talking to families with members on the spectrum, I realized there was broader application to help people. Specifically with learning paths (focused learning, for example, on body language or digital communnications) and social stories (no quizes/questions, just what to expect going to the airport).

I've tried to set it up with minimal backend. All data is saved on your device unless you choose to signup.

I'd love your thoughts and feedback on how to improve and make this more useful. It's an area I'm passionate about and really want it to help people.

Right now it's 100% free... I'm considering options and open to feedback here as well. Would you pay for something like this?

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josnatol 2mo ago ↗

Interesting idea and glad you mentioned for people on the spectrum too.

Are you working this solo or with a team, and how are your costs for hosting this? I can see it was mostly done with ClaudeCode (or something similar) as the design patterns are 100% AI, which is fine, but means there are limitations.

Have you talked to any users to see if the exercises are legit helpful? Or did you talk with therapists about exercises? or was this mainly AI driven guess work? No shade, just wondering.