HCAI Devlog #1

What is HCAI?

• HCAI is a terminal based dev tool I am making for programmers in Hack Club using Hack Club AI APIs for their software/program they are building.

What problem is solved?

• Well I was thinking of using OpenCode for my software projects in Stardance but then I found out that Hack Club don’t allow it for their AI API keys.
• The reason I wanted to use OpenCode was to switch between AI models so that I can use credits efficiently, for ex. I might use Claude Opus 4.8 or Sonnet 5 for frontend, ChatGPT for backend stuff and Gemini or some Qwen models (light models) for simple question and answer.
• OpenCode does the same but it is a AI Coding Agent so it might be used to write code for the program, giving access of the files to modify code, so it is not allowed and it is completely understandable why it is not allowed.

What does it do?

• HCAI is almost same but you can’t give access to your files to HCAI, so AI will not be directly able to modify the users file who is using HCAI.
• HCAI will work on the users terminal and will give the flexibility to user to switch between models to use AI credits efficiently and minimize useless credit burns and maximize the productivity with the free quota given by Hack Club.
• The user can directly start a session in terminal with whichever model they want and then can switch between the models they prefer for the type of work they are doing.
• The best part now, your chat history will be saved , so for ex. if you first used Claude then switched to ChatGPT and then again switched to Gemini then came back to using Claude, you can directly continue the conversation you left on when switched to ChatGPT, and also the same for ChatGPT and Gemini too.

How much completed and what next?

• I already hit 9+ hours of work time on this project in 2 days, that’s why I am writing this Devlog 🥀 , I was thinking that I might ship the project by writing the first Devlog itself but can’t manage time efficiently and it is larger project than I expected so yea I will finish it in next 1-2 days max (might be even earlier, who knows?).
• I have completed the setup for the user, made the database of the AI models provided by Hack Club, made a model pulling engine, and right now working on making an engine where to send prompt directly from the terminal and retrieving answer from the model inside the terminal.

Something I guess…….🥀

• It will be made in near future, till then follow me out so that you can use it whenever it is released.
• Also check out my other projects too .