Is there an app that asks you questions to develop your ideas?

It’s a surprisingly hard thing to search for, because every result assumes you want an app that answers questions. You’re looking for the opposite: something that takes your half-formed idea and pushes back. What do you mean by that? What’s an example? What would have to be true?

That’s Xtraktr’s entire design. You say the rough version of an idea, usually out loud, and it asks one question about the thing you just said. You answer, it asks the next. Not generic prompts from a list; each question is about your last answer, the way a sharp friend pushes back over dinner. There’s a longer piece on why interviewing beats dictating, but the short version: a monologue meanders, an interview converges.

You steer the style of questioning too. Expand pushes into adjacent territory when you’re circling one spot. Deepen digs for the why under your claim. Clarify pins you down when you’re being vague. Synthesize pulls the threads together when you’ve talked enough.

If you’ve heard people describe “rubber ducking” — explaining a problem aloud to find the answer yourself — this is that, except the duck talks back with the exact question you were avoiding.

Before you try it: it won’t hand you opinions. The answers in the conversation are all yours, and that is the point, because what comes out is material you can publish as your own. The conversation stays with you too. The AI runs on your iPhone, so thinking out loud about something sensitive never touches our servers.