Introducing my latest FOSS project- Machate.
Machate is a thin Electron wrapper around OpenAI’s ChatGPT website, transforming it into a desktop app. Residing in your menu bar, it can be accessed quickly via a keyboard shortcut.
It takes inspiration from the seemingly abandoned chatgpt-mac and adds much-needed improvements like configurable hotkey and always-on-top.
Since this is just a wrapper around the real website, you don’t need any OpenAI API key to use it. Just log in with your OpenAI account and start chatting. As you can see in the code, no information is sent to anyone besides OpenAI, so you can use this app as freely and as safely as you would use the original OpenAI website.
It has been tested on MacOS but should work (or almost work) in Windows and Linux as well. Contributions on that front will be much appreciated.
You can download Machate from the Github repository:
https://github.com/mmaorc/machate
Looking forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions 🙂
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