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249points
102comments
#195of 3,109 in 2023
Top 7%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

5 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 11 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.

Execution: 2 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, great UX

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks for setting up a limited free version. The UX is great. I had some failures for huggingface and cohere. Replicate produced an output that was not rendered (but returned an…
      zurfer on HN
    • Great interface! Maybe slightly tangential, on the subject of UIs for ChatGPT, does anyone know a good UI for voice input to ChatGPT, for either the website or via an API ?
      d4rkp4ttern on HN
  • Useful to compare models side by side

    From 1 comment
    • beautiful work as always jared! one of the useful things from nat.dev was the tokens/second calculation, latency is impt as usual. would be nice to enable? i'm excited to see…
      swyx on HN

Objections

  • Broken or failing responses for some providers

    From 3 comments
    • Thanks for setting up a limited free version. The UX is great. I had some failures for huggingface and cohere. Replicate produced an output that was not rendered (but returned an…
      zurfer on HN
    • It's completely broken. I couldn't even get one full response from one of the AIs, it always gets stuck near to the completion of the first response. After like 5 tries it told…
      pastacacioepepe on HN
    • Well, every single thing I tried other than gpt-4 failed for me.
      Aeolun on HN
  • Mobile layout needs work

    From 2 comments
    • Awe man I was just building this. You beat me to it! Looks great. FYI needs some tweaks on mobile.
      khalidx on HN
    • Please provide an icon that makes sense on other platforms for the shortcut on the right bottom, not everyone uses Macs! Overall, pretty cool idea, how is Vercel gonna handle API…
      doodlesdev on HN
  • Output quality lower than ChatGPT for GPT-4

    From 1 comment
    • Its output for GPT-4 much worse compared with an output of chatGPT-4 available at chat.openai.com
      ruslanmsv on HN

Requests

  • Open source the codebase

    From 4 comments
    • This is awesome, will this be open sourced to poke around the codebase? Some models seem to hang w me (anthropic) but I think it was because I reached the limit. Does loggedIn…
      tough on HN
    • Do you think the codebase will be open sourced within the next week or two?
      tikkun on HN
    • Nice work. Is it open source?
      khuss on HN
    • Is the source available?
      nkmnz on HN
  • Add tokens per second display

    From 1 comment
  • Add more providers and models

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks for setting up a limited free version. The UX is great. I had some failures for huggingface and cohere. Replicate produced an output that was not rendered (but returned an…
      zurfer on HN
    • You can add https://www.ai21.com/ LLMs as well
      lazylion2 on HN

Questions

  • How is the cost of API calls covered?

    From 3 comments
    • Please provide an icon that makes sense on other platforms for the shortcut on the right bottom, not everyone uses Macs! Overall, pretty cool idea, how is Vercel gonna handle API…
      doodlesdev on HN
    • How expensive is this to run?
      eh9 on HN
    • How much does it cost to query these models all the time? It's offering a lot for free.
      atleastoptimal on HN
  • What is the data retention policy for prompts?

    From 1 comment
    • What's the data policy on this? Are you keeping copies of the prompts and responses?
      petecoop on HN

Alternatives named

  • nat.dev

    From 1 comment
  • ChatGPT

    From 2 comments
    • When I asked if elephant farts were loud it answered with a lot more detail than ChatGPT.
      psygn89 on HN
    • Its output for GPT-4 much worse compared with an output of chatGPT-4 available at chat.openai.com
      ruslanmsv on HN

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