ChatGPT is the fastest growing SaaS product, ever. Yet, it's a generalist tool. Indie Hackers now have a more suitable alternative - TypingMind.

His fourth bootstrapped product, Tony Dinh created TypingMind to solve a problem for himself. He was annnoyed by the way ChatGPT slowly typed out answers and kept logging him out every day. So he built a new UI for it.

Over time he realised his abstraction could be so much more. By time I mean weeks - Tony first shared TypingMind on ProductHunt on the 11th March. It quickly became Product of the Day and especially popular with Indie Hackers in Tony's network.

Since then Tony added a ton of free and Premium features. Folders to organise chats, an easier way to search chats, and an easy way to export chats (if that's your thing). A prompt library makes it super simple to save commonly used prompts - either for your own use, or for the community. As of today 13 community prompts are available on TypingMind.

"Characters" are another concept unique to TypingMind. Each acts like a persona that offers ChatGPT responses with a certain focus or tone. "Software Developer" and "Tech Writer" are two of my favourites. Text documents can be uploaded directly to TypingMind, with generous limits - up to 23,000 words for the GPT-4 model. Regular text, JSON, CSVs and raw HTML all work nicely with TypingMind.

A one time purchase of $39 unlocks even more features including integrations with CodePen, domain registrars and Google Search. A MacOS app is available for Apple Fan-people, and - if you enjoy ultimate control - TypingMind can be self-hosted as a static app (locally, or on your own domain). All you need is an OpenAI API key. Team licenses are available.

TypingMind is free to try at typingmind.com.