I talk to AI over a hundred times a day, and I got sick of two things: hunting through Chrome tabs to find AI websites, and cd-ing around in the terminal to launch Claude Code. So I built a tool to fix both. Here's the story.
Background: A Flutter dev's burnout and revival
I spent six years as a Flutter developer — Web, Server, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, you name it. Last year, while working at an AI startup, I started using Cursor heavily and experienced the productivity leap of AI understanding code context for the first time.
But burnout hit. Every framework, every pattern, every best practice — I'd seen it all. Nothing felt new. AI can write code now, so why am I still grinding? As someone driven by curiosity, losing interest in programming felt fatal.
After three months off, reality pulled me back. A former colleague recommended Claude Code. At first it just felt like a slightly smarter Cursor — nothing special.
The real turning point was discovering the OpenClawd author's workflow — one person plus AI Code, shipping at an unbelievable pace. I dug deeper and realized: human + AI together can already move at speeds that were unimaginable before.
I built my first Swift iOS app with Claude Code. One week, start to finish. Didn't write a single line by hand — fully AI-driven. That experience gave me my first holistic view of product building: UX, UI, dev workflow, user value — these stopped being abstract concepts.
The pain: Hundreds of AI conversations a day, terrible experience
As I used AI more, the friction became unbearable.
The Web AI pain:
I'm subscribed to multiple AI products — Monica, GPT, Gemini. Every time I need one: open Chrome → find the tab → navigate to the site → start chatting. As a developer, my time is scattered across apps. The browser simply can't cover all my workflows.
The Claude Code pain:
Claude Code is the best coding AI I've ever used, but the launch process drives me crazy: open terminal → cd to project path → type claude. I have dozens of projects on my machine, and honestly I can't remember those paths. cd, cd, cd — dozens of times a day. Tried Warp — Electron was painfully slow and kept preventing my Mac from shutting down. Tried Cursor's built-in terminal — no more cd, but garbled text in the terminal drove me insane.
Two most-used AI tools: one requires tab-hunting in the browser, the other requires cd-ing in the terminal. All I want is to press a hotkey and start talking. And there was no good solution for that.
Born: One hotkey to rule them all
Fed up, I decided to build it myself.
GroAsk 1.0 was dead simple: a dialog box, hotkey activation, AppleScript to automate browser input, and auto-launch terminal to run Claude Code. Zero technical complexity — the entire architecture was AI-generated.
But that first version already made me incredibly happy — finally free from all the pointless clicking and switching. ⌥Space, start talking. Done.
From personal tool to product
After sharing it with coworkers, I discovered two things.
First, the joy of creating is immense. Building something that others find valuable — that satisfaction has nothing to do with money. It's pure, simple happiness.
Second, your users' environments are nothing like yours. Features that worked perfectly on my machine were completely broken on theirs. I started fixing issues and improving the experience nonstop.
Meanwhile, I got through Apple Developer registration, payment setup, domain, frontend and backend deployment — the whole stack. One person, one idea, one Claude Code — productivity multiplied by orders of magnitude. In the pre-AI era, all of this would have taken at least six months. I did it in two weeks (thanks to a bike crash that kept me working from home).
Two value propositions
GroAsk now serves two types of users:
- Heavy AI users + efficiency nerds: Like me — talking to AI hundreds of times a day, unwilling to waste a single minute on unnecessary steps. Hotkey to AI, skip everything in between.
- People who want to try Claude Code but are blocked by the learning curve: I built detailed onboarding with one-click install and one-click launch for Claude Code. Use it like a web AI — no terminal knowledge needed. Watching my coworkers build things with Claude Code after I helped them set it up — that's when I felt my work truly mattered. I help you take the first step; what you build after that is up to you.
What's next
GroAsk is completely free right now — every feature, no holdbacks. Domain, developer account, servers, tokens — all out of my own pocket. I can afford it for now.
The product is iterating fast. When tech is no longer the bottleneck, a lot of ideas become possible: phone-computer sync, agent workflows, more experience enhancements.
Feature requests are welcome — if it's valuable, you'll see it ship fast. There might be bugs, but I guarantee the iteration speed.
I hope you'll give GroAsk fair expectations and a bit of patience.
Download GroAsk: groask.com
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