Ask HN: Is there demand for general purpose GUIs for AI APIs?

I'm thinking of making a desktop app that makes available the Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, etc API functionality. I guess the user would have to plug in their API key.

Does it make sense for me to spend time building this?

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Ask HN: Is there demand for general purpose GUIs for AI APIs?

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