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Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by byyll » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

gtech1 wrote: post #50

off-topic: anyone aware of a service where I could plugin my api keys for openai/gemini/claude and it asks the same question to all 3 and refines the answer by using one of them as the final arbiter ?

https://msty.app (cross-platform) and https://chorus.sh (Mac only) do that though they are both a desktop app rather than a service. Arguably better than putting your API key somewhere online in my opinion.

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by apitman » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

delduca wrote: post #22

There is an open source alternative https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

I'm not generally an open source purest but I believe their license is no longer OSI-compatible.

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by shekharupadhaya » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

Check out https://chorus.sh/ they are really good. Multimodal support and super clean mac app.

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by replwoacause » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

Does using something like this mean you forfeit niceties like Projects, Memory, etc, that vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic give you out of the box? For me it’s more than just chat…having that context is hugely important across chats.

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by replwoacause » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:59 PM UTC

k9294 wrote: post #54

I'm a tech co-founder at loqus.ai, me and my team thought that it’s a great idea to make a one app “to rule them all”, but it appeared to be a bad idea. We decided to stop active development when realized that most people don't want different models, custom instructions, tools, etc.. People want their work done, and no one cares how exactly it will be done - the less they have to think about the setup, the better (an…

So the loqus.ai service is defunct even though I can still sign up and be a paying customer?

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by tensorblock » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

We've built something sort of similar to this. Its functions are a bit different but will ultimately solve the same problem. It combines AI models into a single API.

Check it out if you would like (it's open source): https://github.com/TensorBlock/forge https://tensorblock.co/forge

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:06 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by filipeisho » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

It's completely not the same but the first thing that crossed my mind was the comic of "How standards proliferate"

[0] https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards_2x.png

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by ruthvik947 » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

pyman wrote: post #57

ruthvik947 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...

Sorry, but I'm not interested in blog posts from lobbyist in Washington, the same place pushing to build mega datacentres with Nvidia servers in developing countries. Also, Andy's blog post doesn't mention infrastructure-scale impacts. Even small actions add up, and as AI scales exponentially, so does the demand on energy and water. That part gets left out. I'll stick with the research papers published by AI research…

Not sure if you actually read the article but infrastructural impact is clearly discussed.

You sent over two links about the environmental impact of data centres. There is no denial that these are burdensome on the environment; the question is to what degree AI and its applications contribute to that effect. If you wanted to argue in good faith you'd be advocating for everyone to stop watching Netflix, because video streaming generates a far greater demand than AI currently does, but I don't see you doing this.