56, started coding in June, and I've just spent 4 months building an AI companion that actually remembers you.

I'm Stephen, founder of Enki Labs in the UK. Enki is an adult AI companion with real memory — it keeps what you tell it, can be told to forget, and you can always export what it knows. I built it with AI coding agents: 14,000+ automated tests, a safety system that has to pass every check before anything ships, and a free open-source tool (enki-harness) that came out of testing my own filters. The honest bit: 4 months building, marketing only just started, and 0 paying customers. Biggest lesson so far: I kept polishing things nobody had asked for. This week I changed the rule — if a fix doesn't help win or keep a paying customer, it waits. What I'd love from this community: - Look at the site and tell me the first thing that would stop you trying it: https://enkilabs.co.uk - If you've gone from 0 to your first paying users, what actually moved it? I'll post what I learn here — including the numbers that don't flatter me.

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