Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

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116 points | by tapeo 14 hours ago

15 comments

  • npollock 8 hours ago
    Here's how I would market this:

    Create "packages" of context for popular API & Libraries - make them freely available via public url

    Keep the packages up to date. They'll be newer than the cutoff date for many models, and they'll be cleaner then the data a model slurps in using web search.

    Voila, you're now the trusted repository of context for the developer community.

    You'll get a lot of inbound traffic/leads, and ideas for tangential use cases with commercial potential.

    • tapeo 4 hours ago
      I love this, it can be very useful to have ready to use library of context data and at the same time a perfect solution to bring in new users. Thanks so much.
    • lagniappe 7 hours ago
      Of all the suggestions here, this is the one.
    • deepdarkforest 3 hours ago
      wouldn't that be just 3rd party llms.txt?
    • hoerzu 4 hours ago
      To be free and not forward credentials I built an alternative to all-in-one chatting without auth and access to search API through the web: https://llmcouncil.github.io/llmcouncil/

      Provides simple interface to chat with Gemini, Claude, Grok, Openai, deepseek in parallel

  • J_cst 9 minutes ago
    I use RooCode and find it quite effective with the ability to switch agents and models within the tasks currently. I recently moved from Cline to RooCode.
    • tapeo 3 minutes ago
      Yes could be an alternative if you only need it on a development environment
  • wewewedxfgdf 13 hours ago
    I thought about building something along these lines (not the same but vaguely similar).

    Then Gemini AI Studio came along with a 1 million token window and allowed me to upload zip files of my entire code base and I lost interest in my own thing.

    • douglasisshiny 25 minutes ago
      Is it not a bit weird to freely give give away your entire code base (I assume it's personal, not your company's, but maybe I'm wrong) to an entity like Google?
    • tapeo 13 hours ago
      Yes the long context it's complementary, in other chat services like Gemini you have to rewrite that base context everytime for each new fresh chat, plus they lack of specific data import tools and projects management
    • TZubiri 13 hours ago
      It technically handles 1M tokens, but if you ask it questions it's obvious that it's too much to handle.

      Just upload a novel and ask it questions, you'll see how it botches simple stuff

      • icelancer 12 hours ago
        Easiest way to prove it can't handle the full context in reality is to upload a one hour documentary movie with audio and ask it to write timestamps of chapters/critical moments. It can't handle this beyond 10 minutes even remotely reliably.
      • wewewedxfgdf 13 hours ago
        Good or bad it's a zillion times better than Claude or ChatGPT where you can't even upload a zipfile.
      • zwaps 5 hours ago
        If you want this in numbers check the nolima benchmark
  • jeswin 6 hours ago
    An agentic flow can solve this within an existing UI/app; I already use such a workflow when I have to bring in project documentation. That will be your competition.

    Since it's a commercial product and feedback can be useful: people would generally be hesitant to leave their existing apps if there's a workaround. There's a certain stickiness to them, even ChatGPT. Personally I use self-hosted LibreChat, and the history and additional features it provides are important to me.

    • tapeo 4 hours ago
      I appreciate the feedback!

      Yes I will work on make the context management more productive with a ready to use service and with abilities to switch from other services easily.

  • jmcmaster 12 hours ago
    How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.
  • argestes 2 hours ago
    This is nice. I would love to be in a mailing list regarding updates
  • iankp 12 hours ago
    Isn't NotebookLM already exactly web and file context (a "ContextChat")?

    Edit: I assume it is basically a similar product, but your differentiators are mainly the customer getting to choose their model, and you getting to write your own context adding ergonomics (like adding links from a Sitemap)?

    • tapeo 12 hours ago
      Exactly, similar plus tools to import and manage projects context fast (like GitHub private repos and sitemaps url), multiple ai model and pay per use like using APIs
  • imranq 13 hours ago
    Nice idea!

    I think it would be better if it was just context and not connected to any model. Think of one place where you can hook in your drive folder, GitHub, etc. and have it produce the best context for the task you want to achieve. Then users can copy that to their model or workflow of choice

    • tapeo 13 hours ago
      Thank you, this could be a cool feature too add! For example the ability to click a link that redirects to other chat services with your project base context you built and optionally all the messages sent until there
  • fernly 10 hours ago
    Compare to Claude Projects?

    https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects

    • tapeo 5 hours ago
      For what I can see it doesn't offers the flexibility of importing content from a detailed sitemap or private GitHub repositories in a fast way (and more tools to come).

      Then it doesn’t has the possibility to switch to different AI models plus you have to pay a monthly subscription.

  • scottward 12 hours ago
    Cool! I was excited when I saw this and signed up.

    One key thing I was hoping for was a consistent resync with source material particularly google docs. Looks like I'll have to download then upload to your app whenever they change.

    Is that right? Auto syncing in the plan?

    • tapeo 12 hours ago
      Auto syncing added to the plan!
      • scottward 12 hours ago
        Cool. One option is just to integrate with make/n8n/zapier so I could a) trigger on doc changes and then b) upload (and overwrite) the doc in your app
        • tapeo 12 hours ago
          Yes this sounds very useful and productive. Having project context updated based on external events. I will share it on socials when ready, thanks for the feedback!
          • scottward 11 hours ago
            Sure! Email your users too - since I'm one of them I'll get the email. :)
            • tapeo 11 hours ago
              Will do thanks again!
  • tapeo 14 hours ago
    I tried to solve my own problems that I had while copy and pasting the same starting context from chat to chat. Now I can generate the base context and start new chats from there.
    • ramoz 13 hours ago
      Yes def a needed thing for power users.

      You and I are going to end up competing because im evovling my original solution in this space, https://github.com/backnotprop/prompt-tower ... best of luck, great execution thus far.

      • tapeo 13 hours ago
        Thank you, will take a look at your software, competition is always good
  • esafak 11 hours ago
    Its UX looks similar to You.com
  • pelagicAustral 12 hours ago
    edit: whoops... commented on the wrong tab... nevermind, but Godspeed.
    • tapeo 12 hours ago
      I appreciate it, thanks and keep building
  • artichaud1 13 hours ago
    Love this. I will give it a try. Beautiful landing page as well.
    • tapeo 13 hours ago
      Thanks so much, if you try it out feel free to leave feedback if you want!
  • dangus 13 hours ago
    So now our jobs are shifting from doing work, to telling the AI to do work, so now we need management tools to better manage how we are telling the AI to do work.

    I must have taken a turn to the wrong timeline.

    • icelancer 12 hours ago
      Yeah. That's how it works with employees, too.
    • tapeo 13 hours ago
      New tools for a new kind of work!
    • econ 8 hours ago
      You give instructions as someone who can do the job themselves.

      That ability will decay of course and you will be managing with the best of them. Eh, I mean the worse :)