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Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats
Author : tapeo
Score : 152 points
Date : 2025-05-23 20:46 UTC (1 days ago)
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| tapeo wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Thank you, will take a look at your software, competition is
| always good
| dangus wrote:
| 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.
| tapeo wrote:
| New tools for a new kind of work!
| icelancer wrote:
| Yeah. That's how it works with employees, too.
| econ wrote:
| 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 :)
| artichaud1 wrote:
| Love this. I will give it a try. Beautiful landing page as well.
| tapeo wrote:
| Thanks so much, if you try it out feel free to leave feedback
| if you want!
| wewewedxfgdf wrote:
| 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.
| TZubiri wrote:
| 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
| wewewedxfgdf wrote:
| Good or bad it's a zillion times better than Claude or
| ChatGPT where you can't even upload a zipfile.
| icelancer wrote:
| 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.
| zwaps wrote:
| If you want this in numbers check the nolima benchmark
| golfer wrote:
| Seems like this needs to be updated. Lots of newer models
| not on their list.
| tapeo wrote:
| 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
| douglasisshiny wrote:
| 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?
| sampullman wrote:
| How common is it to have a personal project that isn't open
| source? Probably more common than I think, but it seems like
| a foreign concept to me.
|
| Either my code isn't commercialized so I don't mind "giving"
| it away, or it is commercialized but wouldn't be safe from a
| clean room implementation anyway. Isn't that what bigco would
| do of they really wanted to steal your idea?
| myflash13 wrote:
| As a business owner that uses Cursor, this is a real risk
| that I worry about (third parties stealing my code). However,
| the massive productivity benefit of having access to AI tools
| far outweighs the risk of them copying my business based on
| the code alone. Besides, AI is making code less and less
| valuable. My code is not the moat -- the hard part is the
| network, traction, brand, distributions, etc.
| imranq wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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
| iankp wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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
| scottward wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Auto syncing added to the plan!
| scottward wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Sure! Email your users too - since I'm one of them I'll
| get the email. :)
| tapeo wrote:
| Will do thanks again!
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| edit: whoops... commented on the wrong tab... nevermind, but
| Godspeed.
| tapeo wrote:
| I appreciate it, thanks and keep building
| jmcmaster wrote:
| How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I
| upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.
| mmh0000 wrote:
| Why do you care about "work" data? They're selling your
| data[1][2]. You should sell theirs, it's only fair.
|
| [1]
| https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/blogroll/fortune-500-com...
|
| [2] https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/blogroll/examining-
| data-...
| neuroelectron wrote:
| Spread the love
| davidcbc wrote:
| Because I unfortunately still need to eat and if I'm fired
| that will be much harder
| tapeo wrote:
| Yes actually that it's not a trivial topic.
|
| What I can do is to make it very transparent on how data is
| managed.
|
| The files content are appended to the context builder, then the
| context and messages are processed through OpenRouter, which is
| a provider that offers APIs to all the AI models, and the
| output generated (and the account data) is stored on a secured
| database on Mongodb platform.
|
| It's all defined in the privacy policy here:
| https://contextch.at/docs/privacy-policy/index.html
| esafak wrote:
| Its UX looks similar to You.com
| fernly wrote:
| Compare to Claude Projects?
|
| https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects
| tapeo wrote:
| 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.
| npollock wrote:
| Here's how I would market this:
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| 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.
| lagniappe wrote:
| Of all the suggestions here, this is the one.
| hoerzu wrote:
| 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
| tapeo wrote:
| 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.
| deepdarkforest wrote:
| wouldn't that be just 3rd party llms.txt?
| ar-jan wrote:
| https://context7.com/ is just that, in the form of an MCP
| server.
| tapeo wrote:
| You can't start fresh chats with updated context and you
| still need to create multiple chat in your preferred chat
| service and copy-paste data. But this is SO good to use with
| development environment through docs or MCP! Thanks for
| sharing
| jeswin wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| owebmaster wrote:
| There is a huge market available not using any App yet.
| argestes wrote:
| This is nice. I would love to be in a mailing list regarding
| updates
| tapeo wrote:
| Thank you, you can follow products updates on
| https://x.com/MatteoRicupero where I put products updates more
| frequently, or here https://contextch.at/mailing-list if you
| prefer emails
| J_cst wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Yes could be an alternative if you only need it on a
| development environment
| causalmodels wrote:
| This is really nice. Any chance you have conversation branching
| on the roadmap?
| tapeo wrote:
| Thank you, usefule feature, just added to the roadmap. If you
| are intereseted, follow product updates on
| https://x.com/MatteoRicupero or here
| https://contextch.at/mailing-list if you prefer emails
| ta988 wrote:
| 10% fee over the openrouter fees. That's fees all the way down.
| tapeo wrote:
| You're right, I have in roadmap to optmize it by using directly
| the providers APIs. Would you prefer different pricing like
| lifetime license?
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