Tolan's AI companion: voice-first, fixed personality, hundreds of thousands monthly users
soleio · x · 2026-11-06
On the Dialectic podcast, Tolan founder Quinten Farmer explains his contrarian AI companion: voice-first, character-driven, with a personality users can't rewrite. Instead of an assistant that helps you do more, Tolan helps you "be." Hundreds of thousands talk to their Tolans monthly — mostly parents, mostly not AI power users.
More from Apps
- Nearly 100 testers praise Sphenomenon MR demo that turns a whole house into voxels — Scobleizer · 2026-11-06
- AI gaming platform Astrocade offers $100,000 for the most-played vibe-coded game — andrey_kurenkov · 2026-11-06
- Dev reverse-engineers Wispr Flow, fine-tunes LFM3-1.7B for free local voice dictation — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-06
- OpenAI's AJ Jambrosino joins Every podcast: as software gets faster to build, product judgment matters more — every · 2026-11-06
- OpenAI rolls out Target CPA and Target CPC bidding in ChatGPT Ads on Nov 9 — gaganghotra_ · 2026-11-06
- Dia browser ships Link Routing and custom theme colors as Arc users migrate over — charliedeets · 2026-11-06