Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
  • muntedcrocodile
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    3 months ago

    I really hope ur using chatgpt via api and not their own frontend api is far cheaper and there is a multitude of clients u can use

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      3 months ago

      The one advantage of their front-end is that it’s enabled for live internet search. But yeah it’s not worth the price difference. I’m hardly getting $2 a month vs. the 20 they charge for the front-end.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah I been looking for a frontend that can use an agent style preferably written in langchain capable of such things. I just been using Sydney but its been lab optimised to far and Microsoft are fuckers.

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          3 months ago

          I don’t know if it will meet your needs, but I’ve recently picked up a license to TypingMind and I use the OpenAI API - it’s a very good tool IMO.

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            3 months ago

            I’d prefer something Foss honestly might just have to write it myself at this point.

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              3 months ago

              Yeah I agree, and I hesitated to buy TypingMind, but I figured the $30 or whatever was cheaper than my time.

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      3 months ago

      How do I use the API? I’d be willing to pay for ChatGPT pro if it was cheaper, especially if it was pay per use instead of pay per month

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        3 months ago

        I use better chatgpt its a git repo that Github will host for free for you then google opening api and get urself an api key. Its pay per use u get gpt3.5 as well as gpt4. I still use gpt3.5turbo for most things this cos its way cheaper than 4.

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          3 months ago

          Thanks, I’ll look into that! I also recently found an easy way to run local LLMs on my computer, so I can mix and match.