Show HN: A bespoke macOS UI for ChatGPT

[twald]

Hey! Alexis and Tobi here. We built a native macOS client for ChatGPT API that is free to use (macOS Ventura).

https://www.jamgpt.app/

We built and fine-tuned it to scratch our own specific text-processing itches, so we just wanted to share this with the community.

If you work with a lot of text or code like we do, check it out.

Its core features include:

- Instantly talk to ChatGPT from anywhere on your Mac by pressing a keyboard shortcut. - Avoid typing out repetitive prompts by saving prompts and accessing them quickly. - Just download and start typing as you would with ChatGPT. No need to learn anything new. - Comes with both dark and light mode options

Batteries included: For the first 100 prompts, you can use our API key to try it out right away. After that, you can add your own OpenAI API key. The app is completely free to use and will remain so.

We may add additional pro features in the future, but we have no commercial intentions at the moment. Whatever you see now will remain free.

This is our first version, so things aren't perfect yet, and some features might be missing.

Give it a spin and let’s talk! We’d love to hear your feedback.

Cheers! Tobi & Alexis

[zach_data]

There is a duplicate sentence in your landing page.

> To use the AI technology from OpenAI/ChatGPT, you will need a key. For the first 100 questions, you can use our key. For the first 100 questions, you can use our key. ...

[twald → zach_data]

Ah. Thanks Zach! Just changed this.

[jansen]

Thanks for building this, Tobi and Alexis! Been a happy user since the first alpha!

[twald → jansen]

:) Thank you!

[LouisvilleGeek]

You might want to rethink this approach. Your OpenAI key is clearly visible by running strings against the binary. strings JamGPT | grep sk-u

[interleave → LouisvilleGeek]

Thanks! I tested against `strings | grep` the other day, too. I'm surprised that returns anything today. Will check what's up!

[interleave → interleave]

Alrighty! Just pushed a new release for this.

As a sidenote: I'm so happy about being able to share something really, really 'neat' with you all.

Sure, in many ways, it's yet another UI to ChatGPT.

But to me it's something else: An absolute privilege to have jammed with my dear friend Tobi on something we are both excited about.

The real secret, what makes this little, random, opinionated macOS app so special is: It's time spent futzing around with a friend.

Plus, Ethan Mollick put it into words what I've been trying to say for weeks now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712375)

There are no secret prompts. The secret is practice.

Which I believe is exactly what our app is great at.

Of course, there are other ways to tickle out those API keys. Be our guest! But as you're digging, please let me know what you think of the one about the New York Doll's. Or the one about that pale blue dot.

Let's also start _that_ conversation_ :D

[twald → LouisvilleGeek]

Thank you! We'll make changes asap.