Hi HN!<p>Gift-giving is hard, so I built Giftron.app to help. It’s an AI-powered gift finder that personalizes recommendations based on recipient, age, interests, and the occasion.<p>Under the hood, it uses GPT to generate gift ideas then search for products. Right now, it’s integrated with Amazon, but I’m exploring adding more platforms and refining the personalization to assist better.<p>I started this as a fun side project after struggling to find thoughtful gifts myself. It’s helped my friends to get perfect ideas, but I’d love feedback from the HN community:<p>Does it solve a problem you care about?
Any ideas for features or improvements?<p>Thanks
I typed in “violin” as an interest and it suggested getting a “personalized violin pick” as a gift<p>Unfortunately thats not a thing, you don’t use a pick to play violin<p>Classic AI<p>(The actual links were to guitar picks)
The most problem I have with gifts are people without interests. (If I knew their interests I could find a gift easily by myself).<p>I have the same problem by myself, the interests I have I already have everything I need.
Yeah suggestions are way too obvious. I put cycling in as an interest and it gave me 4 different helmets to choose from… errr<p>I think in general that suggesting items for peoples hobbies is usually a bad idea because if someone is passionate about cycling they probably know the exact gear they want, me who knows nothing about this topic can’t choose a good gift.<p>It’s better to buy gifts you do know something about, eg if I’m really in to kitchen knives I could buy a nice knife for someone because everyone needs a good knife and I can choose a good one.