Meet NaïveChat, a hotkey-driven AI chat app, built for:
- extreme efficiency,
- intense models/prompts engineering.

The Beginning

The story goes like this: You love an app, it's the best in class, but you still feel unsatisfied in some aspects. Eventually, you decide to build a better version. Now you become a rival to the app you once loved.

That’s Raycast for me (the AI chat, not the launcher). The more I love it, the more those problems start to drive me insane. It’s like being haunted by what it could be.

The Problems

• Dark Mode. White text on black background, that's harsh. Especially when I open Raycast or Twitter in the night. It needs to be solved.
• Hotkey. Change model, tune prompts, regenerate, these are high frequency operations when you do prompt engineering. Doing these in Raycast AI is painfully slow, although it's an app famous for its hotkey launcher.
• Branched chat. Most AI chat apps make a copy of the original conversation, mess history with duplicated items. This way, I think is WRONG. Wrong model for conversation exploration. Conversations are not duplicated chats, they are mind maps.

Introducing NaïveChat

NaiveChat with minimal UI

• Hotkey driven: - Cover all high frequency operations, designed with seamless workflows in mind. - Follows conventions, like H/J/K/L in map navigation, ctrl+up/down for list selection. - Intuitive defaults and customizable.
• Branch Map: the mind map of conversation, you may navigate and switch active branch in it.
• Screenshot & sharing: capture full conversation or mobile view, for sharing purpose.
• Minimal UI: minimal means barely nothing on the UI. Most features hidden behind hotkeys. And there's a Zen mode to push it to the extreme.

Workflows with NaïveChat:

• Switch model (⌘L), retry generation (⌘R). Because models vary in different jobs, even prompts:
• Edit system prompt (⌘L), save (⌘S), retry. Fine-tuning system prompt in NaïveChat feels like a chef smile.
• Explore different directions, iterations, have them organized in whole. AFAIK, no other chat app make it a mind map (⌘J) like NaïveChat. Iteration on image generation feels even better than ChatGPT app.

Give it a try, I'm sure you won't regret. Let me know what you think.
https://naivechat.com

Pricing

Free during beta.

There will be redeem code for all beta tester, thanks you guys!

About Me

I'm a developer doing open source for over 10 years, I created badgen.net (serving 10M badges per month, sponsored by Vercel, Sentry), npmjs.dev, eloc.app . I've been cooking NaiveChat for 2 years, in a slow peace, but high bars.