HotGato, by Robert Allen

• Provenance - My name is Robert, I write books and read research papers and help friends launch businesses. Social media is a plague, but I am real: LinkedIn - Portfolio - GitHub
• Necessity - In grad school at Rochester Institute of Technology as research assistant to the Director of the Simone Center for Student Entrepreneurship, it was my job to read hundreds of papers. My greatest weakness is paragraphs, so RSVP style speed readers saved my life. None, however, had the features I needed. When my career eventually hit a lull, HotGato was the first project on my plate.
• Casual - The base system is free and open source, so you can do what you want with it.
• Business - In three years I've only had one donation. This is not a business, it is a passion project. If you like it, let me know.
• Growing - HotGato is a point of pride for me, and something I use constantly. Last I checked, around 400 other people use it daily.
• Features - Two months ago I added document uploads, last month I added text-to-speech, and now HotGato has a LibreOffice extension.
• AI - Yeah, ok, I don't like AI either, but I do use it for development. It's crap for novel applications, but great for common tasks. Nothing goes out without my eyes on every line of code. A helpful gent sent a few PRs in GitHub, one was good, the other was AI slop with circular logic and no clear impact. AI is a toddler with scissors - Do not trust it!
• Cookies - Bro I don't want your data. No cookies, no tracking (except anonymous Google Analytics), no pixels, no ads, none of it. The modern internet sucks, because people choose to make it suck. HotGato will not suck.
• Logo - Toob is my hot gato, my caliente kitten, my teddybear full of tacks. Toob is an excellent logo. If cats had racecars, what would they sound like? Meeeoooowwwwmmm!