kadisi / assistant

Web UI for ChatGPT. No back-end, mobile-friendly, continuously user-tested

Assistant – Web UI for ChatGPT API

https://assistant.bloat.app

A mobile-friendly human interface for ChatGPT API. There is no back-end server, so you can easily host your own instance (see details below).

See CHANGELOG.md for what’s new.

🤔 Why API instead of ChatGPT Plus?

• gpt-3.5-turbo: Cheap token-based cost, instead of flat 20$/mo
• gpt-4: Unlimited requests (requires early access)
• No logouts – if OpenAI started revoking API keys weekly, a lot of big SaaS products would get very angry
• Private – OpenAI’s API policy says your prompts won’t be used for developing, unlike in the playground.

🔩 Features

• Very polished, mobile-friendly UI
• PWA support: can be added to the phone’s home screen or installed on your computer as a Chrome app
• Requests go directly from the browser to OpenAI – no backend server
• Settings and API key are stored in localStorage
• Unlimited conversation length by sending only x latest messages to the API (configurable)
• Markdown rendering
  • Bold, italic
  • Embedded links
  • Code keywords
  • Code blocks
  • Tables
  • Images
  • Horizontal lines
• Automatic dark/light theme
• Export the conversation as markdown
• Screenshot the whole conversation even if it doesn't fit the window
• Customize the assistant’s behind-the-scenes system message prompt
• Send follow-up messages even before the previous answer is complete (processed in parallel)
• Change the model with ctrl+M
• Open Assistant with an initial prompt if you want to make integrations into other apps. Example: https://assistant.bloat.app/#q=hello%20there

🚚 In the future

• Search old chats with GPT embeddings (meaning your search words don’t need to be an exact match)
• Speak your messages using the Whisper API

🔧 Hosting your own version

• npm install
• npm run build:prod
• The bundle will go under dist/. Copy those files somewhere so they show up as a web page (for example GitHub Pages or Nginx).

💙 Contributing

The best way to contribute is by adding feature requests and bug reports to the GitHub issues – you don’t need to be a programmer for that. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.