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SlickGPT is a light-weight "use-your-own-API-key" web client for the OpenAI API written in Svelte. It offers GPT-4 integration, a userless share feature and other superpowers.

Language: Svelte

Has ChatGPT Been Neutered? | May 2023
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https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt and https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt come to mind.
Show HN: SlickGPT | Mar 2023
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I get that fear and it's fair. SlickGPT is OS, self-hostable and just runs locally, so you can check the code and run your own instance if you don't trust that ours running on Vercel is on-par with the one in the repo. You can also put a soft and hard cap on your API quota on the OpenAI page and monitor it to verify that only you are using it.

The key is passed (see https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt/blob/main/src/lib/ChatIn...) to a Vercel edge function (see https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt/blob/main/src/routes/api...) that does the actual call to the OpenAI API. This function is stateless and doesn't store anything. I also put it in your localStorage using a store (see https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt/blob/main/src/misc/store...) so that you don't have to enter it over and over again.

As for the "what is this trying to solve" - read our documentation in the GitHub repo over at https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt.
Show HN: SlickGPT | Mar 2023
It's a self-hostable chat interface for the OpenAI GPT API.

From their Github Readme:

SlickGPT allows you to run your own local ChatGPT instance, host it yourself or just use our instance if you like. Users bring their own OpenAI API keys. SlickGPT offers them a very fancy user interface with a rich feature set like managing a local chat history (in the localStorage), a userless "Share" function for chats, a prominent context editor, and token cost calculation and distribution.

https://github.com/ShipBit/slickgpt