YakGPT

AI

chatbot frontend

SHOW HN2023

287points
118comments
#161of 3,109 in 2023
Top 6%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

19 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 11 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.

Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fast and accurate speech-to-text

    From 2 comments
    • BRO. Your transcription is SO fast. I've hacked at a similar project passing to the Whisper API and honestly I was already blown away with its speed an accuracy (as was anyone I…
      computershit on HN
    • Cool! I tried out the speech to text and it was instant and accurate, i had no idea whisper was that good. Do you know their privacy for our voices? Do they train on it, hear it,…
      user- on HN
  • Clean, responsive design

    From 2 comments
    • I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome! I kind of want to throw this up on…
      Karunamon on HN
    • This is very well made and designed. I will likely use this instead of the actual Chatgpt UI since their API is a lot cheaper than the 20$/month pricing for my usage amount.…
      chenxi9649 on HN
  • Cheaper than paid ChatGPT subscription for API usage

    From 1 comment
    • This is very well made and designed. I will likely use this instead of the actual Chatgpt UI since their API is a lot cheaper than the 20$/month pricing for my usage amount.…
      chenxi9649 on HN

Objections

  • 'Run locally' wording is misleading since calls go to OpenAI

    From 3 comments
    • > Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications That's not what "run locally" means. This isn't any more "local" than talking to chatgpt directly, which is never…
      teawrecks on HN
    • In that case you're basically offering a browser-based client. 'Locally' strongly suggests this is running entirely on the machine (vs. making API calls). Going to break a lot of…
      NBJack on HN
    • > Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications This seems to be a contradiction. Am I running it locally, or is it running on someone else's server?
      yosito on HN
  • Asking users to enter an API key on a website is a security risk

    From 2 comments
    • It's pretty bad to ask people to enter e private secret key in a web site (any, I mean)
      oriettaxx on HN
    • > Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications > Please enter your OpenAI key ... Do people just not get it? I would in fact rather give all my company secrets to…
      meghan_rain on HN
  • Build fails due to Google Fonts dependency

    From 2 comments
    • It wasn't so smooth for me. I gave up at Creating an optimized production build ...TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'useRef')
      xupybd on HN
    • Oh, my install failed at: ``` Failed to compile. pages/index.tsx `next/font` error: Failed to fetch `Inter` from Google Fonts. > Build failed because of webpack errors ```…
      johnchristopher on HN

Requests

  • Text-to-speech output

    From 2 comments
    • Love the idea of prompt dictation. Taking that idea a step further, would it possible to have a feature where ChatGPT responses are spoken back to the user?
      asow92 on HN
    • This is fast. And talking to it is a nice touch. Consider adding text to speech too :) One feature I am missing from all these front ends is the ability to edit your text and…
      smusamashah on HN
  • Editable conversation history with branching

    From 2 comments
    • In official UI the chat history is like a tree. If you edit a message, it branches off the conversation from that point. You can always go back to any message in the tree and see…
      smusamashah on HN
    • In official UI, if you edit a message and get a new response, you can still always go back to any of your previous messages and continue from there on. Basically the history is…
      smusamashah on HN
  • Screenshots in README

    From 2 comments
    • could you please add some screenshots of how it looks
      jerrygoyal on HN
    • Testing YakGPT right now, excellent work! I would recommend adding some screenshots to the GitHub README so that people can get an idea of how it looks before entering their API…
      connorgutman on HN
  • Custom prompts and personas

    From 2 comments
    • Editing the prompts (which are currently submitted via the system message similar to your linked app) is a great idea. I'll add it to the to-do list :)
      kami8845 on HN
    • I've been playing around with your Idea Generator persona for the last 15 minutes and have been absolutely blown away. Excellent prompt engineering. As mentioned by others, it…
      fudged71 on HN
  • Hosted server with authentication

    From 2 comments
    • I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome! I kind of want to throw this up on…
      Karunamon on HN
    • The only thing I'd suggest to consider to add is some sort of authentication. If I deploy this on a server so I could reach it with my mobile, on the go, and it has my API…
      illuminated on HN

Questions

  • How does pricing compare to ChatGPT Plus?

    From 2 comments
    • I’d love to see a comparison of the average cost to use this with the OpenAI API versus subscribing to chat-gpt plus. Maybe I’ll have to try this for a month and see if it end up…
      agotterer on HN
    • GPT-3.5 is really cheap (prompt and completion = $0.002 / 1K tokens), but GPT-4 is around 20 times more expensive (prompt = $0.03 / 1K tokens + completion = $0.06 / 1K tokens).…
      qwertox on HN
  • How is the audio privacy handled by Whisper?

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! I tried out the speech to text and it was instant and accurate, i had no idea whisper was that good. Do you know their privacy for our voices? Do they train on it, hear it,…
      user- on HN
  • How does it compare to Vocode?

    From 1 comment
    • Given that Vocode (realtime audio, llm, etc) came out a few days ago, could you speak to how yours compares to it? https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python
      throwaway675309 on HN

Alternatives named

  • chat-with-gpt

    From 1 comment
    • Chat-with-gpt has that, we use it in our org as an alternative chatgpt Interface: https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt
      danielbln on HN
  • bettergpt.chat

    From 1 comment
    • Looks cool! Are you planning on adding more customization to be able to influence the AI? See https://bettergpt.chat/ (it's also open source and uses API in the browser).…
      Tiberium on HN
  • ChatPad

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool. I use a custom local UI as well, based on a fork of a similar project called ChatPad (https://github.com/deiucanta/chatpad). That also uses Mantine UI, and lets you…
      ilovepuppies on HN
  • Vocode

    From 1 comment
    • Given that Vocode (realtime audio, llm, etc) came out a few days ago, could you speak to how yours compares to it? https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python
      throwaway675309 on HN

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