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AI · July 20, 2022

I built a productivity app for Mac powered by GPT-3

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I built a productivity app for Mac powered by GPT-3 launched on July 20, 2022 with 9 votes, #902 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

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