I wrote MinimalGPT in about a weekend as a minimal chat client where everything is stored client side (chat messages aside obviously).
Entire conversations are stored local to your browser instead of a database etc…
Supports both GPT3.5 and GPT4 as well as basic DALL-E image generation. Possibly Bard integration in the future if anyone actually wants it.
The GitHub is available here
It’s nothing crazy, but for a simple chat client without any BS it is nice.
You have to provide your own API key but they hand them out like candy so have a blast!
Edit - Pushed out a small update that adds a toggle for auto saving new conversations. If disabled new conversations are only saved (locally) when you press the save icon.
After a conversation has been saved it is automatically updated/saved every time you send a message from there on out.
Does it run on android?
It is a progressive web app so you can save it to your home screen to behave like an app on both iOS and Android.
I’ve added an API Key and still getting: An error occurred while fetching a response.
You might double check the API key is correct.
Also make sure you have access to the model you’ve selected, you may not have GPT4 access by default if you’re using that.
I believe it’s GPT3.5 by default and you can request GPT4 access.
It gives me a GPT3.5turbo and GPT4 options. Not sure what’s “turbo”.
I am just a regular 3.5 user
Turbo is just what they call their 3.5 model for some reason.
Odd it’s not working for you, seems alright for others at the moment. The only other thing I can think of is something blocking JavaScript or the browser LocalStorage.
Should this work on an Android device (I am using a brave browser), or just on desktop?
Should work on any platform, Brave might be blocking some scripts.
If it works on the desktop or chrome mobile etc… it’s probably just Brave being overly aggressive.
If anyone runs across this in the future and doesn’t want to revive a dead thread feel free to message me!
Nice, this looks pretty good. Any chance of having an export option for the chats or maybe just an option to store them server side?
Thanks!
Good question, I hadn’t really thought about it before but I think an export is possible. Conversations are stored in your browsers local storage, adding the ability to export/import seems entirely possible.
It might even be possible to generate a web link on export that you can use to load conversations on another device.
As far as server side storage goes personally I’d like to handle as little of other peoples data as possible even if it’s just AI chat conversations. It’s not out of the question though, I just need to look into it further.
