WaitWise — Plain-English Progress Pings for Long AI Tasks
A browser extension and phone app that watches your long-running AI tasks in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and sends a push notification when each meaningful step finishes, with a one-line summary so you come back to a half-done draft instead of an empty box.
Knowledge workers and students who kick off 10+ minute AI tasks during a coffee break and forget about them by the time they finish their next meeting
- Cross-service browser extension that detects long generations and renders the orb plus plain-English progress messages per step
- Phone pings like 'Drafted 3 of 5 essay sections — added intro and lit review; current bottleneck is the methodology paragraph' so you can re-engage from anywhere
- Resume-friendly 'Latest snapshot' card that returns you to the latest chat state with a TL;DR on what changed since you last looked
- Reply-to-ping remote control: 'expand section 2' or 'stop, that's enough' sent straight from the notification without opening the chat tab
Users now routinely kick off 10-minute AI tasks and walk away, only to find an unfinished chat when they return — a cross-platform progress-ping layer solves the abandonment problem this GitHub-trending orb project makes visibly obvious.
Multiple existing extensions (ChatGPT Popup Notifier, ChatGPT Finish Alert, chatGPT notification) confirm users want this, but it's a known pain point rather than a large unsolved market.ChatGPT Popup Notifier - Chrome Web Store ↗GitHub - jason003355/chatgpt-finish-alert-extension ↗
Highly saturated: at least 4 Chrome extensions already do ChatGPT-finished notifications, Claude Code ships native push notifications, and ai-cli-complete-notify covers Claude/Codex/Gemini — no obvious gap.Claude Code Adds Mobile Push Notifications for Long-Running Tasks ↗GitHub - ZekerTop/ai-cli-complete-notify ↗
Competing extensions are free and the platforms themselves are shipping this natively (Claude Code mobile push), making paid value extraction weak.ChatGPT Popup Notifier - Chrome Web Store ↗Claude Code Adds Mobile Push Notifications ↗
Underlying platforms are absorbing the use case — Claude Code already ships native mobile push notifications and OpenAI is likely to follow, eroding a standalone app's value over time.Claude Code Adds Mobile Push Notifications for Long-Running Tasks ↗Claude Code Push Notifications: Stay Updated on Long Tasks ↗
Building a Chrome extension that polls ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini DOM and fires web push notifications is well-understood and inexpensive; main complexity is mobile app and cross-platform orchestration.GitHub - jason003355/chatgpt-finish-alert-extension ↗