Hey fellow comers, just showing my progress. I will launch by next month hopefully.
I've completed my work for:
- Streaming text
- Formatted responses
- Citations and websites
Currently, I'm working on finishing:
- Chat history
- Documents library
- LLM settings
I'm using the Vercel AI SDK, Next.js, Firebase, and Bing to ensure setting up and running the project is as straightforward as possible. I hope to support more LLMs, like Claude, Mistral, and Gemini, to offer a mix-and-match approach.
Although I've accomplished a lot, there are still a few more weeks of work ahead. Unfortunately, I've failed to raise any funds for my project and am fully dependent on the open-source community for support.
Note: VCs told me I can't build perplexity so simply because I don't have that much skills or high enough pedigree. They are literally blinded by the fact that any average dev can also build such an app.