Meeako is Passive. It's a Problem.
A few months ago I sat down to do something Meeako was built for.
I was analyzing eight AI apps — Bard, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, Perplexity, Copilot. All in the same category. All with a chat interface. I had their user flows, their screens, their product context sitting in Meeako.
But I didn't know what to do with any of it.
So what? If I'm a product builder in this space, why do I care? What do I do with this information? Is there anything non-obvious here — a pattern, a gap, a strategy worth pursuing?
I left the session with more questions than I started with. And uninspired to keep going.
Seven AI apps. No answers.
Meeako's AI category — Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, Grok. The screens are there. The "so what" isn't
Data was not the problem
The flows were there. The screenshots were there. Eight apps, meticulously documented.
Meeako could show me that ChatGPT has a certain onboarding flow. That Perplexity surfaces web sources inline. That Grok pulls from X data while others pull from the web and Claude focuses on safety and nuance.
The data was all there. That wasn't the problem.
Data without insight
In its current form, Meeako lacks meaning. It lacks intent. It feels like capturing data for the sake of data — because I can't extract anything actionable from it.
It's a well-structured library with no librarian. You can find things, but nothing helps you think.
I ended up piecing answers together from Google searches and conversations with ChatGPT and Claude. Which is a strange thing to admit — I used competing AI products to answer a question my own product should have answered.
What "useful" actually means
I'm still figuring that out.
What I know is that data without insight isn't enough. Informative isn't enough. There's a version of Meeako that doesn't just show you what others built — it helps you think about what you should build, given who you are and what you're trying to do.
I don't know exactly what that looks like yet. But that's what I'm trying to find out.
Next post: Meeako Can Now Talk. Sort Of.