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What web services do you subscribe to? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] SuperSpruce 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SuperSpruce 1 points 7 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.