Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

npollock · 2025-05-24T02:45:02 1748054702

Here's how I would market this:

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 · 2025-05-24T03:43:58 1748058238

Of all the suggestions here, this is the one.

jeswin · 2025-05-24T04:50:15 1748062215

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.

wewewedxfgdf · 2025-05-23T21:59:48 1748037588

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.

tapeo · 2025-05-23T22:09:46 1748038186

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

TZubiri · 2025-05-23T22:09:24 1748038164

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

icelancer · 2025-05-23T22:35:11 1748039711

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.

wewewedxfgdf · 2025-05-23T22:12:30 1748038350

Good or bad it's a zillion times better than Claude or ChatGPT where you can't even upload a zipfile.

iankp · 2025-05-23T22:44:06 1748040246

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 · 2025-05-23T22:58:46 1748041126

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

fernly · 2025-05-24T00:39:35 1748047175

Compare to Claude Projects?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects

imranq · 2025-05-23T22:00:56 1748037656

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 · 2025-05-23T22:05:48 1748037948

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

jmcmaster · 2025-05-23T23:19:34 1748042374

How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.

tapeo · 2025-05-23T23:34:46 1748043286

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

mmh0000 · 2025-05-23T23:30:41 1748043041

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-...

scottward · 2025-05-23T22:44:31 1748040271

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 · 2025-05-23T22:59:23 1748041163

Auto syncing added to the plan!

scottward · 2025-05-23T23:14:17 1748042057

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 · 2025-05-23T23:19:21 1748042361

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 · 2025-05-23T23:38:07 1748043487

Sure! Email your users too - since I'm one of them I'll get the email. :)

tapeo · 2025-05-23T23:42:27 1748043747

Will do thanks again!

tapeo · 2025-05-23T20:46:17 1748033177

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 · 2025-05-23T21:41:33 1748036493

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 · 2025-05-23T21:48:24 1748036904

Thank you, will take a look at your software, competition is always good

esafak · 2025-05-24T00:29:21 1748046561

Its UX looks similar to You.com

pelagicAustral · 2025-05-23T22:58:34 1748041114

edit: whoops... commented on the wrong tab... nevermind, but Godspeed.

tapeo · 2025-05-23T23:00:30 1748041230

I appreciate it, thanks and keep building

artichaud1 · 2025-05-23T21:51:12 1748037072

Love this. I will give it a try. Beautiful landing page as well.

tapeo · 2025-05-23T21:57:29 1748037449

Thanks so much, if you try it out feel free to leave feedback if you want!

dangus · 2025-05-23T21:43:30 1748036610

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.

icelancer · 2025-05-23T22:36:15 1748039775

Yeah. That's how it works with employees, too.

tapeo · 2025-05-23T21:53:19 1748037199

New tools for a new kind of work!

econ · 2025-05-24T03:06:59 1748056019

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 :)

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