| I built a native all-in-one AI client called BoltAI[0] It’s one of the first AI clients I think. I’ve been working on it for 16 months and shipped more than 100 releases. It started with the idea of invoking an LLM within the Apple Notes app. I hate going back-and-forth between the Notes app and ChatGPT web app. So I built the “AI inline” feature where I can trigger a keyboard shortcut and it would send the prompt to OpenAI and get the answer back. But this is quite advanced, not many users can use it. So later I added the full Chat UI. I don’t want to charge a subscription and manage AI tokens so I sell perpetual licenses with 1 year of update. Users bring their own API keys. As an all-in-one client, it unlocks some interesting features that I didn’t expect in the beginning: the ability to switch between multiple AI services and models. This allows me to use Web Browsing with Claude, for example. I later added support for Function Calling and this has unlocked many capabilities: edit video with ffmpeg plugin (give instructions to the LLM and it would execute the ffmpeg command locally), search the web using advanced search engine such as Kagi, WolframAlpha, Analyze documents and source code similarly to Claude Project… And finally I added the AI Command feature where you can prompt directly with the highlighted text. Imagine you’re reading an article and wanted to list key takeaways, you can press a keyboard shortcut, choose the command and it would show you a quick answer. You can build any command you want: from summarization to translation or grammar fix… I also built another free app called ShotSolve[1]. It allows you to take a screenshot with a keyboard shortcut and quickly analyze it with an LLM. During building BoltAI, a customer asked for the ability to analyze PDF documents so I decided to build another app for that use case called PDF Pals[2] These apps allow me to quit my job and pursue solopreneurship full time. [0]: https://boltai.com [1]: https://shotsolve.com [2]: https://pdfpals.com |