Joe Fabisevich Mar 29, 2023

After 10 days of App Store rejections I'm so excited to say, Short Circuit is finally in the App Store! 28 days ago I started built a prototype of Siri powered by ChatGPT, and was immediately drawn to the idea of a premium-feeling iOS, iPad, and Mac app for ChatGPT. This amazing technology deserves a good user experience, and we gave it one.

Partnering with @Soroush to make that happen has been a dream, and I'm so excited to share Short Circuit with you.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/short-circuit-ai-chatbot/id1638522784?ct=social

‎Short Circuit: AI Chatbot

‎Ask AI anything with Short Circuit. As an AI-powered chatbot, Shorty is here to revolutionize the way we communicate with our devices. Shorty can provide intelligent, sophisticated, and even funny responses to your every question, powered by the latest OpenAI models ChatGPT, and soon GPT-4. But tha…

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Show threadJoe Fabisevich Mar 29, 2023

We're only getting started too. We already have a true native Mac app in private beta, we're adding GPT-4 support, syncing all your conversations across devices, and so much more.

That's not to undersell the app today, it can already do so much and has been doing so much in our lives. You should try the app to find out for yourself, everyone gets 10 free messages to try it out. If you like the app we'd truly appreciate App Store ratings and reviews, they're the lifeblood of any indie app.

Show threadThickeyMar 29, 2023
@mergesort I didn’t get any free messages🙃
Show threadThickeyMar 29, 2023
@mergesort oh, I gotta tap the white suggestions. I get it now.
Show threadJoe Fabisevich Mar 29, 2023
@thickey Ah yes, you can start sending messages after the onboarding is complete. We should find a way to make that clearer, sorry about that!
Show threadOlivier HalligonMar 29, 2023
@mergesort @thickey I got the same and also thought I hit a bug. Then saw that toot so went thru the onboarding white buttons… except for the first "Configure Siri Shortcut" one, bc I didn't yet know if I wanted to configure the Siri shortcut before trying the app first, to know if I liked it and would use it. Alas, you're forced to configure Siri right away to unblock you — rather than trying the app first and configure Siri later. I think many will be tripped by that NUX!
Show threadJoe Fabisevich 

@aligatr @thickey You don't need to configure Siri to start!

Soroush and I just figured out the original bug, it's annoyingly a race condition that has nothing to do with the onboarding process. The bug happens because we sometimes try to query your subscription status (which includes the 10 free messages) before you have an anonymous user ID, so it returns 0 messages. If you force quit the app the user ID will be there, and will fetch your correct subscription status the with 10 free messages.

Mar 29, 2023 at 10:38pmWeb