Show HN: Simple open-source cmd+b interface to OpenAI’s API

[TalFeld]

https://github.com/INT-Calutt/buddy

We got tired of searching both the chat and playground tabs of OpenAI every time we had a question, and quite annoyed when the free research preview did not work for a day. We searched for a simple interface to the chat API and found many paid extensions that sell buckets of queries for some $/mo, which there is no way we were gonna use, so we just built this.

Note that this is a pre-release version. There’s obviously a lot to fix and polish, but we’ve used it a lot for the past couple of days, and even though many things don't work, we really enjoyed it (we stopped using https://chat.openai.com/chat).

Hope you'll enjoy it as well, any feedback is more than welcome :)

[gorkemcetin]

I would call it “cmdk”. Many (if not most) apps use this shortcut. A non-complete list is here: https://commandpalette.org

[TalFeld → gorkemcetin]

Thanks!

[shahargl]

Thanks for showing! Will you add also midjourney integration?

[TalFeld → shahargl]

Hey @shahargl! We're definitely looking at adding more models and probably prioritizing users' requests. Any other models you'd like to see buddy support?

[talboren]

interesting, did you mean ctrl/command+k btw?

[TalFeld → talboren]

Yup, it is a ctrl/command+k-like. We just decided on cmd+b since many domains have their own cmd+k functionality that we don't want to override.

[chatmasta → TalFeld]

Cool project, but I agree "cmd+b" was pretty confusing, and meaningless to me (the closest shortcut I'm familiar with is my tmux leader command, which is ctrl+b).

I'd suggest rephrasing the readme to use the term "command palette," which I think is the more recognizable name for this functionality. Or maybe you could riff on the idea of "application launcher" by calling this a "prompt launcher."

[TalFeld → chatmasta]

Interesting, sounds like we need to go over how we present things and make sure it's clear. Thanks for the pro terms tips!

[talboren → TalFeld]

got it, thanks