The GUI version of ChatKeeper has taken longer than expected, thanks to plenty of hiccups, hurdles, and rabbit holes I may write about another time.
It’s 🤏 thiiiiiiis close now. Not quite finished, and not as polished as I’d like, but close enough to be useful and to get real-world feedback.
So I’m kicking off 2026 with what I’m calling Adventure Builds, which currently-licensed users can download here.
An Adventure Build lives somewhere in between an official release and what an open-source project might call a “nightly” or “unstable” build. But they’re not nightly, and they should be reasonably stable.
What Adventure Builds ARE
- Experimental versions of ChatKeeper in active development
- A way to get early feedback on bugs, usability friction, and rough edges
- A way to prove that I really am working on this thing! 😁
- Published when I think there’s something useful to try
- A thank-you perk for currently licensed users to get early access to new or experimental features
What Adventure Builds ARE NOT
- Bug-free. I test before publishing, but some bugs will inevitably slip through. That’s part of the adventure! 😁 (And, realistically, official releases aren’t immune to bugs either.)
- A promise that everything in an Adventure Build will ship in a future release. Sometimes the right outcome of an experiment is to stop doing something.
- A promise of any specific release timeline. I don’t plan to leave versions in “Adventure Build Purgatory,” but real life and technical reality will ultimately decide.
- Guaranteed to stick around forever. Official releases will remain available, but Adventure Builds may be removed for practical reasons (like a major issue or graduation from Adventure Build to full release).
- Available to everyone. Adventure Builds are intended for currently licensed ChatKeeper users. If you’d like to become one, you can purchase ChatKeeper here.
If you’re feeling adventurous, give an Adventure Build a try!
…and if you’ve read this far…
It’s my intention to maintain both the command-line and GUI version of ChatKeeper from a single codebase and installer. This is best for users, but it also requires a lot more work.
So once the GUI version of ChatKeeper graduates from Adventure Build to full release, the price will increase to $29.99.
Of course if you already have a license it will continue to work fine for both CLI and GUI.
I’ve got plenty of ideas for new ChatKeeper features, many of them from you, so thanks and keep them coming! Adventure Builds will let me share them and get your feedback sooner. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
