Searchable ChatGPT – search your GPT conversation history
Hey HN, If you're like me you probably have hundreds of ChatGPT chats for each idea or project you have. And each one keeps it's unique context and details that are lost in the long list of chats in the sidebar. Since there is no way to search old chats in ChatGPT Web UI, I built this feature myself as a browser extension. In February, I released it and tried to apply freemium model and see how it works. I was ecstatic when I had a first sale in less than a week! That was first time anyone bought my product ever. Since then I got into top3 in Chrome Web Store for "search chatgpt history" and…
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Searchable ChatGPT is a browser extension that lets users search through their ChatGPT conversation history, addressing the lack of built-in search functionality in ChatGPT's web interface. The extension indexes all chats and is designed for people who maintain numerous separate conversations for different projects and ideas. A free version returns the top three search results per query, while a paid tier removes this limitation. The tool operates on a freemium model and is available on the Chrome Web Store.
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Hey HN, If you're like me you probably have hundreds of ChatGPT chats for each idea or project you have. And each one keeps it's unique context and details that are lost in the long list of chats in the sidebar. Since there is no way to search old chats in ChatGPT Web UI, I built this feature myself as a browser extension. In February, I released it and tried to apply freemium model and see how it works. I was ecstatic when I had a first sale in less than a week! That was first time anyone bought my product ever. Since then I got into top3 in Chrome Web Store for "search chatgpt history" and "chatgpt conversation history" and am getting a couple of sales daily, totaling about $500-$600 per month. The free version creates index of all chats but it's limitation is that it returns only top 3 search results per search. I thinks it's important that free version actually covers 95%+ of use cases, not forcing users to pay unless they really need to. F.ex one competitor's free version only allows searching most recent 20 chats that makes it literally useless. Firefox version is also available.
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