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by longnguyen 3y ago
I started working on KTool[0] in 2022. Here was the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996 It recently reached $1K MRR. Not enough for us to pay the bills, so I started 2 other projects: BoltAI[1] & PDF
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by longnguyen 3y ago
> I feel like if you have to specify “technically”, you agree with me that it is basically a subscription. No, I am not. The "technical" part here is the "fallback" in "perpetual fallback license". Appreciat
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by longnguyen 3y ago
It’s just my personal experience. So I mostly use GPT-4 for coding tasks and gpt-4-0314 usually gives me the answer I want, without having to use system prompt tricks like this https://twitter.com/voooooogel/status&#x2F
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Haha yeah, same. TypingMind is probably the client with the most features. Tony ships at a crazy speed. With BoltAI, I want to focus on MacOS with more native integrations.
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by longnguyen 3y ago
It depends a lot on the GPT client (third-party application). My app (BoltAI) does support web search (via Google Search) and web browsing (built-in) but not chat w/ PDF functionality. I built another app[0] specifically for that use c
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by longnguyen 3y ago
I think you're right. Thanks for the feedback. I will update it soon!
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Technically it's perpetual fallback license, which was popularized by the Jetbrain team [0] > A perpetual fallback license is a license that allows you to use a specific version of software without an active subscription for it. The
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by longnguyen 3y ago
No, there isn't. If you're talking about the design then I can see both were modified from a paid Tailwind UI template. For marketing copy, all I can say is they were "inspired" by mine. You can easily check using Waybac
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Thanks. By default, BoltAI stores user's API key in Apple Keychain. So other applications and scripts won't be able to access this key without triggering the OS's security dialog. Secondly, all requests are sent directly to O
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by longnguyen 3y ago
I didn't use Bing much but in my experience, it's a lot harder to achieve what I want. For example, it almost always search the web for an answer which is a hit or miss for me. If you want to use GPTs or to generate images with Da
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Awesome. Adding GPT-4 Turbo and DALL·E 3 to my ChatGPT macOS client[0] [0]: https://boltai.com
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Do NOT use your OpenAI API Key directly from your mobile app(twitter.com)
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by longnguyen 3y ago
I think the larger level of success requires larger amount of luck. To he mega successful like Jeff Bezos, the amount of luck required is so huge that probably none of us could achieve in 100 life time. But for smaller successes, like build
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Ask HN: How to market a macOS app distributed outside the AppStore
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by longnguyen 3y ago
I’m growing a few products. https://PDFPals.com — Instantly chat with any PDF on your Mac I wanted a PDF Viewer with ChatGPT integration. So I built one. https://BoltAI.com — Integrate with ChatGPT with any mac app I
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Interesting. One of my most requested feature for my small native apps[0][1] was to support Azure OpenAI service. Apparently, many organizations have their own Azure OpenAI deployment and won’t let their employees use the public OpenAI serv
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by longnguyen 3y ago
Arwes is awesome. I built an internal tool using the previous version of Arwes[0]. It's a visualization tool for a 3D scanner. [0]: https://scan-viewer.vercel.app/scans/1?tab=overview
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by longnguyen 4y ago
Yes to conversion quality. For example, the official extension has a huge problem with detecting the cover. I fixed it with KTool. I also implemented custom parsers for many sites that use a “modern” frontend framework (read: SPA) And here
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by longnguyen 4y ago
An interesting read! I sorta solved this with my little SaaS[0]. I send interesting articles and RSS feeds to my Kindle, and I read some of them every evening before bed time. Articles never stayed in a “bucket” but they flow every day. Not
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by longnguyen 4y ago
I’m sure it was fun working on that project. Parsing web content and packaging into epub is so much fun. But handling Amazon bugs is not :(
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by longnguyen 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I gotta admit I’m constantly improving my profile. Your feedback is well noted and I am will work on it soon.
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by longnguyen 4y ago
Shameless plug: I build a tool to forward RSS feeds and newsletters to Kindle automatically[0]. While it could not replace the official periodicals, it works pretty well for my personal reading workflow. Consider giving it a try if you’re l
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I replicated the GPT-4 “napkin” demo using ASCII wireframe(twitter.com)
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by longnguyen 4y ago
If I understand correctly, that means we can read all favorite magazines for a flat monthly fee?
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Grammarly's technique to avoid using In-App Purchase(twitter.com)
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by longnguyen 4y ago
Not really an app for reading newsletters, but I built a SaaS[0] to forward and combine newsletters into an ebook and send to your Kindle. I’ve been using it everyday and super happy with the experience. [0]: https://ktool.io
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by longnguyen 4y ago
I built KTool ( https://ktool.io ) — it allows you to forward web articles, newsletters and RSS feeds to your Kindle. --- I did a Show HN 4 months ago[1]. The reason I started KTool was to spend less time on computer screens, and
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by longnguyen 4y ago
I can attest to this. The UX is quite bad. I run a small SaaS[0] and had a hard time explaining to my users on how to enable the Safari extension. The UX to use is not as nice either. In the end I switched to the traditional Share Extension
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by longnguyen 4y ago
I feel the same. I switched to reading articles on my Kindle and now I enjoy reading web content again.
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Mariko Aoki Phenomenon(en.wikipedia.org)
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