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Re: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

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post #29

> We built this because we believe: Universal Access: AI assistants should be accessible from anywhere on my computer, not just in the browser or in specific apps. I find this somewhat ironic, given that the software only supports Apple computers. It would have been nice for OP to mention this fact upfront in the announcement, so as not to get non-Apple users' expectations up too soon.

Addressed towards the end of the post:

"Why not Linux or Windows? Gotta start somewhere! If the reception is positive, we’ll work hard to add further support."

As you can see from the commit log, we have 3 people working on this. So we're quite limited in what we can take on. That said, our belief holds and we'd love to support Linux and Windows.

I had "MacOS" in my original title, but HN limits titles to 80 characters!

Re: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

#32

Basic polish things you might want to fix up quickly: 1) The site in the github repo description is a broken link 2) The description itself says "iOS client" which I don't understand at all and 3) The actual webpage's title is "My Framer Site".

Thanks for the feedback! Fixed these - though the site title seems to be cached...

Re: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

#33
post #29

> We built this because we believe: Universal Access: AI assistants should be accessible from anywhere on my computer, not just in the browser or in specific apps. I find this somewhat ironic, given that the software only supports Apple computers. It would have been nice for OP to mention this fact upfront in the announcement, so as not to get non-Apple users' expectations up too soon.

Addressed towards the end of the post: "Why not Linux or Windows? Gotta start somewhere! If the reception is positive, we’ll work hard to add further support." As you can see from the commit log, we have 3 people working on this. So we're quite limited in what we can take on. That said, our belief holds and we'd love to support Linux and Windows. I had "MacOS" in my original title, but HN limits titles to 80 characte…

It would be nice if the README made it clear toward the top that this is Mac software. The screenshot and mention of Xcode give that vibe of course, but I kept reading anyway and felt a bit bummed to only confirm at the end.

Looks like a cook project and wishing y'all the best. Let us know if and when the Linux support drops :)

Re: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

#34

I can't connect to any remote models without allowing the app to connect to the domain "syntheticco.blob.core.windows.net". Blocking this prevents any API connection from functioning. Why are you sending something to Microsoft's blob storage?

We pull the list of available models from that URL! Not sending anything, just fetching so we can display an up-to-date list of models. This the URL that we fetch: https://syntheticco.blob.core.windows.net/onit/models.json

Fair enough, thanks for the fast reply!

Re: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

#39
Congratulations on the launch Tim, love the CMD + 0 shortcut and local model support. It's definitely something I'd use!

Bug report: cmd + 8 is behaving weird on my laptop, maximizing and minimizing several times (Mac OS Sonoma 14.5). Happy to provide more details!

Also, I'd expect pressing cmd + 0 to act like a toggle, to close it if it's already open (instead of needing to press escape), but maybe that's just me!

Looking forward to future work on this!

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