I built an AI companion app around long-term memory. Now I'm wondering if memory is what people actually want, or just what they say they want.

Disclosure: I'm the solo founder of an AI companion app called Dusk AI (duskai.io). The idea that started everything for me was simple. I kept seeing the same complaint across every AI companion community: "I told them this three weeks ago and they forgot." People would pour hours into a character, share real things about themselves, and come back the next day to what felt like a stranger wearing the same face. So I built the entire product around persistent memory. Not the kind where you write a pinned note and the AI regurgitates it.