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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.

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What makes it different

Your conversations,
as a thinking archive.

ChatGPT and Claude treat chats as disposable. Shin treats them as something worth keeping — scoped, summarized, searchable.

game-dev 12 chats
writing 9 chats
research 6 chats

Workspaces

Scoped context. Your game-dev chats don't pollute your writing chats.

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.

Open beta

Stop losing what you figured out.

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FAQ

What people actually ask

Straight answers about memory, search, and how Shin compares to ChatGPT and Claude.

Can I search my old ChatGPT or Claude conversations inside Shin?

Shin is its own AI chat app, not a ChatGPT or Claude plugin, so it searches chats you have in Shin. The difference is that every chat in Shin is automatically summarized, tagged, and semantically indexed — so three months from now, 'why did we pick rollback netcode?' finds the exact chat where you figured it out.

How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?

ChatGPT and Claude treat conversations as disposable. Great for the moment, useless two weeks later when you try to find one. Shin is built around the opposite assumption: your chats are a thinking archive worth keeping. Workspaces scope context, auto-summaries let you skim, and related past chats surface automatically when you start new ones.

Is there a ChatGPT alternative with memory across conversations?

That's exactly the gap Shin fills. Instead of asking the model to 'remember,' Shin keeps structured memory outside the model: auto-summaries, extracted decisions, and connected chats surface automatically in a sidebar when the current conversation relates to something you worked on before.

How do workspaces help me organize AI chats?

Workspaces are scoped contexts — your game-dev chats, writing chats, and research chats stay separate. Search stays clean. Related-chat suggestions stay relevant. No more scrolling past 400 unrelated conversations to find the one you actually need.

When is Shin available?

Right now. Shin is in open beta and anyone can join — there's no waitlist. Drop your email above and your invite is sent to your inbox automatically, usually within a few minutes.

Built in public

I'm Nikola, a solo developer building Shin because I kept losing my own best conversations with AI. Follow the journey on X or LinkedIn . Shin is in open beta now — anyone can join.