game-dev 12 chats
writing 9 chats
research 6 chats
Workspaces
Scoped context. Your game-dev chats don't pollute your writing chats.
The AI chat app that remembers
what you figured out.
Your best thinking with AI ends up in conversations you'll never find again. Shin keeps the thread — workspaces, auto-summaries, and connected chats.
Building in public · shipping in 4–6 weeks
What makes it different
Your conversations,
Your conversations,
as a thinking archive.
ChatGPT and Claude treat chats as disposable. Shin treats them as something worth keeping — scoped, summarized, searchable.
Summary
Rollback netcode wins over lockstep for this game's pacing. Input delay pinned to 2 frames. Authoritative saves sync via cloud.
Auto-summaries
Every conversation becomes a 2–3 sentence 'here's what we figured out.'
- Rollback, not lockstep
- 2-frame input delay
- Cloud-authoritative saves
Extracted decisions
Key conclusions pulled out automatically. Skimmable at a glance.
Current chat
Designing turn resolution UI
Related from your archive
Latency budgets for real-time games
UI state machines that scale
Replay systems we loved
Connected conversations
When you start a new chat, past chats that relate surface automatically in a sidebar.
why did we choose rollback?
⌘ K
Rollback netcode wins
over lockstep — matched in 3 chats
Real search
Semantic and full-text across everything you've ever discussed — not just titles.
Private beta
Stop losing what you
Stop losing what you
figured out.
Building in public. We'll email you the day Shin opens up — no drip campaigns, no noise.
Built in public
I'm Nikola, a solo developer building Shin because I kept losing my own best conversations with AI. Following the journey on @johnnykodx . Early access opens in 4–6 weeks.