Your ChatGPT and GPT-4 AI assistant on iOS, iPad & Mac
ChatGPT & GPT-4 to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and of course Siri. Primed with personalities like a French tour guide, a math tutor, a SwiftUI expert, or even invent your own. And for most users the one-time lifetime unlock is cheaper than a ChatGPT+ subscription!
Hi Product Hunt, amazing to see Short Circuit listed here! Shorty is an app that started as a small prototype of using ChatGPT with Siri, but blossomed into what we believe is a premier native experience for ChatGPT and GPT-4 for iOS, iPad, and Mac.
I’ve been an iOS developer since the first days of iOS, and an indie developer for the last year focusing on building high quality apps. When I started looking at AI what I didn’t see much of was love, polish, and care, and that’s so important for something that we’re going to be (and some of us are) using every single day. Many of our users have told us that Short Circuit was the first time they saw AI as something that wasn’t scary or nerdy. (I swear to you the app icon of every major ChatGPT app in the App Store is literally a brain floating in free space, and it says a lot about the vision people have for AI.)
One of the ways we focused on humanizing our app is to give it a very distinct personality, which comes through in everything from the app icon to the animations and playfulness throughout the app. Talking with Shorty feels like a specific flavor of ChatGPT, bringing in the best parts of their fine tuned models with our sense of delight and joy.
If you have different needs than the default personality we ship with, you can change any chat with a feature we call Personalities. Studies show that when you prime an AI with a role to play you can get better results as much as 92% of the time. Most people don’t know that nor should they have to, so we bundle Short Circuit with a dozen built-in personalities to help show you what it can do, and let you build personalities of your own for expert advice for other domains as well. It’s features like that which have built a really nice foundation for the future, and we hope to keep making AI a little more human… without being too human.
Really as one person building my apps (this time with the help of @khanlou) I would absolutely love to hear what you think about the app, how you think it might help you, and where we can keep making Short Circuit and Shorty even better!
About Short Circuit on Product Hunt
“Your ChatGPT and GPT-4 AI assistant on iOS, iPad & Mac”
Short Circuit launched on Product Hunt on July 5th, 2023 and earned 169 upvotes and 20 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. ChatGPT & GPT-4 to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and of course Siri. Primed with personalities like a French tour guide, a math tutor, a SwiftUI expert, or even invent your own. And for most users the one-time lifetime unlock is cheaper than a ChatGPT+ subscription!
On the analytics side, Short Circuit competes within iOS, Mac and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 679.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Short Circuit performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Short Circuit?
Short Circuit was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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