Hermit

Mihir Kanzariya, Peter Shu, Jan-Kasper Jakubowski, Kasper Jakubowski, and Elia Yakin looked at ChatGPT and realized something most people don't think about: when you leave, you leave everything behind. All your conversations, all the context it learned about you, all that valuable interaction history—just gone. So they built Hermit, a tool that lets you exit ChatGPT while keeping everything it learned about you. It's data portability meets AI independence, and it's exactly what the AI industry has been avoiding talking about.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: every AI company owns your prompts once you hit enter. They train on them, they learn from them, and if you ever want to leave? Good luck. Hermit is the escape hatch. It packages up everything ChatGPT knows about you—your preferences, your conversation patterns, your custom instructions—and lets you take it with you. Whether you're moving to Claude, Gemini, or building your own AI setup, Hermit makes sure you're not starting from zero. They launched on Product Hunt and the timing makes sense: as AI tools proliferate, the last thing anyone wants is to be locked into one platform with no way out.

This is the beginning of AI portability and these five are betting that the future belongs to people who own their own data. If you're tired of being the product, Hermit might be your exit strategy.