Assistant as a dedicated Desktop App

lobochrome

I enjoy using the ChatGPT app which I can trigger via hotkey ALT+Space. I use it to quickly shoot of questions, that I know an LLM answer would be useful for.

I would love to replace ChatGPT with Kagi assistant for this. It could be integrated into a dedicated "section" of Orion.

I currently decide to either trigger a search via the browser (Cmd+Tab to Orion -> Cmd+T for new Tab -> Type Search Enter) or to go to ChatGPT (Alt+Space opens query prompt from the ChatGPT macOS app -> Type Query Enter).

As you can see - asking the LLM is easier step wise. It requires me to make a judgement whether the quey should go to an LLM or search - which is usually easy for me, but potentially not as easy for a regular user.

If we could combine this -> (ALT+Space to open Orion Search/Assistant query box -> opens search/Kagi assistant in parallel) it would be really powerful.

Dhiaeddine

Hi,
I am a kagi user, I think it would be great to put kagi assistant inside a standalone mobile app like chat GPT, having privacy in search and chatbot for just 25€ is an insane value.

I can see people relying on kagi instead of the common chat bot interfaces because of the privacy it offers when it comes to storing and training on chat history and also browsing history.

Vlad

Asking everyone here - what does the MVP (minimum viable product) of this feature look like?

lobochrome

For me:

EDIT: Oh, and this is primarily macOS. I'm not a super big user of llms on mobile, beyond the quick question to shoot off:

1) Make it an Orion Feature first. Later, decide if it needs a separate App bundle.
2) Hotkey (Opt+Space) triggers Orion to open a new chat with the cursor active in the question field in a special "tab-group" section, similar to Pinned Tabs but expanded beyond just the favicon (ideally allowing nesting as well). In this section, I have all my chat history available as usual.
3) I'm a vertical tab user, and I think this would generally work best with vertical tabs. For horizontal tab users, maybe have assistant "tabs" vertically and regular tabs horizontally.

doskagi

I would prefer this to be separate from Orion: make it a standalone app, please!

danvpeterson

MVP for me would be a simple quick entry window for new chats, and a way to jump from there to the browser for a full experience. There are lots of things I'd love to see added to that, probably first things being file upload and/or a second window that is essentially just the web UI to access all of my conversations but in the app. For me at least, that quick (spotlight-like) entry and answer window would be the thing I would find the most benefit from.

Alternatively, this could be implemented through something like a Raycast extension. That would be enough for quick entry and answers, but not for the additional features down the road.

I would also note that additional features in the desktop app for Translate, and any other LLM features would be really useful!