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I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.

I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.

Did you use Ollama or how are you using it?

yes I used Ollama llama3 8b. Feel the speed is slow compared to using it directly from terminal

I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.

I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.

Yogesh, you can follow this guide to use a custom AI service or a different model. You can also bulk edit

docs.boltai.com/docs/ai-comma…

Hey @yogesh, Daniel from BoltAI here.

I can’t answer your question since there are dozens of AI clients now that I lost track of the competition.

But here are a few things I strongly believe in BoltAI:

  • It supports more AI services & models than just OpenAI. My customers usually alternate between GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus for coding for example. Or to use Groq with their insanely fast inference. Or using a local model with Ollama. It’s easy to switch in BoltAI.

  • It supports “context-aware” AI Command. You highlight the content, press a keyboard shortcut then ask AI about it. You can build your own AI tools with this: text summarization, content rewrite, translation…

  • Quickly take a screenshot and ask AI about it. Currently it supports both GPT 4 and Claude 3. BoltAI will support local model in the next version (llava)

  • A more powerful plugin system. This is still in progress but imagine AI can help you with your local tasks such as renaming, photo/video manipulation etc. It would be super powerful.

  • It’s one-time payment, not a subscription.

Happy to answer any questions 😊

BTW here is the list of all features with demo: docs.boltai.com/docs/features

Hey Daniel, just purchased the product. Is there a way to change all the assistants model to gpt4o? I see it's gpt3.5 turbo rn.

Yogesh, you can follow this guide to use a custom AI service or a different model. You can also bulk edit

docs.boltai.com/docs/ai-comma…

btw the llama3 req timeout most of the time and is too slow. It worked once or twice only. When I run it in the terminal it works pretty fast and always does.

It worked again when I checked stream response. I had unchecked it and it stopped working. But It is still slow compared to terminal.

Did you use Ollama or how are you using it?

yes I used Ollama llama3 8b. Feel the speed is slow compared to using it directly from terminal

I see. BoltAI currently uses the OpenAI-compatible server from Ollama. Maybe that's why it's slower than querying the model directly.

I will do more benchmarking and maybe switch to direct connection in the future.

Hmmmm good point actually. But I was thinking of providing collaboration features that won’t be available in an individual license.

My ideal org size is between 5-30 people (1-6 teams)

You need to build some interesting demo with the collaboration feature maybe? I am not part of a team now but thinking that for my last team it would be a hard sell. I'll watch what you'll do! :)

Ah good idea. I did receive a couple of inquiries about this but it was for PDF Pals, not BoltAI. Maybe I can merge the 2 products and offer this for businesses.

Thanks for the advice Ben. I was thinking of targeting small businesses, not enterprises. Hopefully that would minimize red tape and with shorter sales cycle :D

One direction I think could work is to keep BoltAI as a standalone app like it is now, then I started building more integrations. Though this seems to take a lot more dev efforts 🤔

Yep, selling to smaller startups definitely helps - I would still expect some of those issues, just to a lesser extent. Your pricing may also have to be lower since their budgets will be lower relative to a big company.

Good idea, @screenfluent. Also a quick question, I wanted to move build-in-public from Twitter to WIP, as I think it would be more valuable to other builders than the general audience on Twitter.

Which type of content should I post? (I need it kinda longer form, doesn't seem to be a good fit for Todo/Question/Roast/Milestone/Intro 😅)

Tagging @marc as it's intended for Marc :D

Thanks, Daniel! I can't wait to read your posts here, free from the worry that Twitter crowds might make you second-guess sharing your experiences with the world.

I think cloning Milestones to Posts could be the best approach. The longer I think about it, the more I like the idea that WIP is a kind of micro (or not) blogging platform centered around our projects.

@daniel_nguyenx I had a similar question because I wanted to share long-form content here, and then I found @jasonleow's LifeLog. Many of us use this space to share long-form content about what we're building, how life is going, and our thoughts about the process.

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