The premise is self-defeating: it sells privacy but forwards your context to api.openai.com, so the proprietary code still leaves the machine. Continue.dev already indexes local codebases into a local vector DB, routes to Ollama, and lives inside the IDE for free, making the $149 menu-bar app both leakier and clunkier. The premise is fundamentally broken because forwarding data to the OpenAI API means the code still leaves the machine, while tools like Continue.dev already index code locally inside the IDE for free.
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PIVOT · 43/100. Real demand, but the shape needs to change.
The premise is self-defeating: it sells privacy but forwards your context to api.openai.com, so the proprietary code still leaves the machine. Continue.dev already indexes local codebases into a local vector DB, routes to Ollama, and lives inside the IDE for free, making the $149 menu-bar app both leakier and clunkier. The premise is fundamentally broken because forwarding data to the OpenAI API means the code still leaves the machine, while tools like Continue.dev already index code locally inside the IDE for free.
Collect 50 Stripe pre-orders from devs who, after seeing the network trace, still prefer a separate menu-bar app over free in-IDE Continue.dev with local models. You can get 10 senior developers to prepay $149 after explicitly explaining that your tool still sends their proprietary codebase chunks to OpenAI's servers.
Developers are heavily relying on AI, but the context window is becoming a massive privacy risk. Users are terrified of uploading proprietary code to centralized corporate servers. This fear is validated by the Claude Code map file leak (2,095 developer-forum upvotes) and the massive popularity of local memory systems like milla-jovovich/mempalace (34,096 GitHub stars). Devs want the convenience of AI context without the existential dread of leaking IP.
PIVOT at 43/100 on Skeptral. The kill-shot: “The premise is self-defeating: it sells privacy but forwards your context to api.openai.com, so the proprietary code still leaves the machine. Continue.dev…”
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