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Show HN: Simple open-source cmd+b interface to OpenAI’s API (github.com)

4 points by TalFeld ↗ HN
We got tired of searching both the chat and playground tabs of OpenAI every time we had a question, and quite annoyed when the free research preview did not work for a day. We searched for a simple interface to the chat API and found many paid extensions that sell buckets of queries for some $/mo, which there is no way we were gonna use, so we just built this.

Note that this is a pre-release version. There’s obviously a lot to fix and polish, but we’ve used it a lot for the past couple of days, and even though many things don't work, we really enjoyed it (we stopped using https://chat.openai.com/chat).

Hope you'll enjoy it as well, any feedback is more than welcome :)

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talboren
interesting, did you mean ctrl/command+k btw?
TalFeld
Yup, it is a ctrl/command+k-like. We just decided on cmd+b since many domains have their own cmd+k functionality that we don't want to override.
chatmasta
Cool project, but I agree "cmd+b" was pretty confusing, and meaningless to me (the closest shortcut I'm familiar with is my tmux leader command, which is ctrl+b).

I'd suggest rephrasing the readme to use the term "command palette," which I think is the more recognizable name for this functionality. Or maybe you could riff on the idea of "application launcher" by calling this a "prompt launcher."

TalFeld
Interesting, sounds like we need to go over how we present things and make sure it's clear. Thanks for the pro terms tips!
shahargl
Thanks for showing! Will you add also midjourney integration?
TalFeld
Hey @shahargl! We're definitely looking at adding more models and probably prioritizing users' requests. Any other models you'd like to see buddy support?