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Building a ChatGPT App With the Help of ChatGPT

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:36:00 +0100

When I started prototyping Chatterbox for ChatGPT, I decided - as an experiment - to utilize ChatGPT in the process. I know, so meta, right? Here are some of my observations, thoughts and takeaways from that experiment.

Getting Started

I wanted to build the native UI with SwiftUI (+AppKit where necessary) and I knew I’d want to embed the actual ChatGPT website in a WKWebView. I asked ChatGPT how to interact with HTML elements from the surrounding Swift code and learned about the evaluateJavaScript method of the WKWebView class. This allowed me to prototype the app and start experimenting with different ideas and features.

New Side Project: A Native Mac App For ChatGPT

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:12:28 +0100

I’m excited to share with you a new side project that I recently launched: Chatterbox, a native macOS app that makes it easy to interact with the ChatGPT website from your desktop*

It all started when ChatGPT was released. Like many of you, I was excited to try out the new website and start chatting with the Open AI’s Chatbot. But as I was using it, I found myself frustrated by the fact that I had to stitch together multiple screenshots to share conversations with my friends. I also wanted a more convenient way to use ChatGPT on my Mac, with better OS integration and a global hotkey (kind of like “Spotlight for ChatGPT”). That’s when the idea for Chatterbox was born.

A New Open Source App For Christmas

Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I just happened to release a new open source project this very christmas eve. Go For It! is a to-do list application with built-in productivity timer, that I have been working on in my spare time during the last one and a half months or so.