AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Why.new
I wanted to explore a fresh take on AI chat interfaces by combining a whiteboard, ChatGPT, and dynamic sources. Why.new is a visual AI chat that lets you branch conversations into dynamic mind maps while offering follow-up questions to keep your exploration flowing. Search for and embed web articles, YouTube videos, and research PDFs directly within the app, creating a rich, interactive space for discovery. It is also fully multiplayer, allowing you to share the link and collaborate with friends in real time.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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ChatGPT▲1,643A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…
2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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Second Brain▲302Hi HN, I'm Dom, a solo founder. I built Second Brain to solve a common issue I had with AI chats: the knowledge disappears. There’s no structure, no memory, and no way to reuse or build on them. So I built a tool that combines AI chat with a visual, interconnected knowledge system. Key features: - Save AI responses into editable docs (Notion-style Pages). - AI Visual board with multiple content & chat nodes (like Miro meets ChatGPT). - Add and chat with YouTubes, TikToks, Audio, PDFs, GitHub repos, Looms, websites, etc. - Organize using Projects and Smart Tags — then chat with full contexts.…
2025 · second-brain-lac-ten.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I was inspired by the way ChatGPT writes bullet lists, then invites you to "delve" deeper. This is an interface that reifies that rabbit-holing process into a tiling layout. The model is instructed to output hyperlink-prompts when it mentions something you might want to delve into. Lots of features to add (sessions, sharing, navigation, highlight-to-delve, images, ...). Would love to hear other usecases and ideas!
2024 · delve.a9.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…
2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →
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The New ChatGPT▲361ChatGPT can now see, hear, speak, and access the internet
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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ChatGPT Plugins▲355Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Chatting with a deep learning chatbot
2016 · neuralconvo.huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Chat Thing▲214AI agents for your business. Automate, generate, create!
2025 · chatthing.ai · its alternatives →
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I released ContextChat, an AI chat designed to be context-centric, helping you stay focused and productive by giving you control over the information your AI sees. You can import websites, files, and public/private GitHub repos to give the AI full knowledge of your projects. Unlike other chatbots, ContextChat lets you easily switch between project contexts, so you get relevant answers and avoid the noise. It's pay-per-use, giving you flexibility and control over costs and free models are available so you can try it for free with no monthly subscriptions. Let me know your feedback!
2025 · contextch.at · its alternatives →
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I made this experimental art project/game that's an LLM chat assistant, but where you're the AI. I wanted people to get a visceral sense of what it's like to answer the kinds of things that people prompt their chatbots day in and day out. If you're interested, I wrote up some more info on how I made it, including how the "user" prompts are generated with an eye for realism: https://bethechatbot.com/about Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
Jul 2026 · bethechatbot.com · its alternatives →
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Thank you for checking out the product! This product is great for individual makers, teams, and enterprises to create content, code, images, and more as an alternative to ChatGPT. We offer access to the latest and greatest AI models, complete data privacy ensured, and support a huge (32k, 128k, 200k) context window for all of our plans. Compared to ChatGPT, who only offers 32k context window until you upgrade to enterprise, we offer A huge 4x upgrade to 128k for GPT4 and 200k for Claude. This allows all of our plans to ask questions against a huge 500 page documents or a set of documents. We…
2025 · parallellabs.app · its alternatives →
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Experience history like never before with our AI chatbots
2023 · apps.chatbotkit.com · its alternatives →
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I got frustrated with the current AI chat interfaces. Most notably the fact they try to please and suit you so you feel good when you use them. I created this app for myself. Here the AI can't convince you about anything, it is only able to give you ideas. I found this useful as it forces me to think more, because it doesn't think for me. It can give me ideas, but I have to pick them up. If you are interested, you can burn some tokens on me, by applying to this limited beta.
May 2026 · letthink.co · its alternatives →
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AI chatbot that captures leads and reveals intent data
Jun 2026 · customers.new · its alternatives →
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Hi friends, I'm Dmitry, co-founder of Ordemio. I'd like to share with you what we have accomplished in 30 days of non-stop, 10-hour workdays. It was launched on August 1st, 2024. Is it good enough to attract our first customers? We have launched a new product in the highly competitive niche of "ChatGPT AI chatbot for a website," facing over 100 existing competitors on purpose. It's a gamble, and I'm unsure if it was the right decision. Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers.
Nov 2025 · ordemio.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Martino and I built Showcase to solve a problem my team kept hitting: we'd have these incredibly useful ChatGPT conversations with tons of context built up, but there was no good way to bring teammates in without copying/pasting everything or starting over. What makes it different: Real-time collaboration - Multiple people can chat with AI simultaneously, seeing each other's prompts and responses live 180+ models - Compare responses across Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, and others in the same conversation Rich media support - Upload videos, audio files, PDFs, spreadsheets, code,…
2025 · showcase.thytus.com · its alternatives →
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