I'm a college student and after 600 hours of coding, I made Shift.
Hi everyone I wanted to share my journey with my startup Shift as a 20 year old college student.
I started coding Shift for macOS in mid-November 2023. The idea came to me when I had to switch between so many tabs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and constantly move back and forth. I thought, "What if there was an app that could edit text, code, Excel, or anything anywhere on the laptop with smooth integration on the spot?" After not finding anything like this in the market, I started coding it for about 10 hours a day and finally launched in mid-February 2025 with many customizations and more interesting features than I originally didn't plan.
I use it a lot for rewriting or answering to people as well as coding and many other things. This also works on excel for creating tables or editing them as well as google sheets or any other similar platforms. I will be pushing more features, there's a built in updating mechanism inside the app where you can download the latest update, I'll be releasing a feature where you can download local LLM models like deepseek or llama through the app itself increasing privacy and security so everything is done locally on your laptop, there is now also a feature where you can add you own API keys if you want to for the models. You can watch the full demo here (it's an old demo and some features have been added) : https://youtu.be/AtgPYKtpMmU?si=V6UShc062xr1s9iO , for more info you are welcome to visit the website here: https://shiftappai.com/
Anyways, I do plan on making it way bigger, I want it to be very very big and I know with the ideas in my mind it will get big, here are some reasons why Shift has big potential:
Shift isn't bound by itself, meaning it can be used on all code editors, many people code in Vim, well Shift can also be used there, can be used for terminal commands and many more creative ways, it's limitless use cases, excel creating and doing calculations and adding rows and columns with AI, google sheets, words, powerpoints, code editor all in one with all the models without intrusive UI, all with a keystroke on the spot and may more features.
Shortcut feature, tons of people have told me they use and want more customizations which I'm adding soon to the app, this is a very good idea I had to link repetitive prompts into a keyboard combination with a model you want it to perform it with (I gave an example in the video)
Big future plans for Shift, I previously made another sophisticated project called Omni and I plan to integrate it in a few months into Shift in a more secure sandboxed manner, you can check it out here, Anthropic computer use is a joke compared to what Omni can do and this is a one man against a billion dollar company.
All these stats and hundreds of good comments I had everywhere showed me it has big potential which I knew before but now I am sure of and will be putting everything on the front to make it work, I don't give up on anything or by anyone and do what it takes to make something work, if Cursor can be valued at 2.5 billion dollar, so can Shift, and I'll make sure of that.
Price, Shift is a smooth solid app and I am charging 6.99 dollars a month for it, I had dozens of testers before the release and original price was 4.99, they told me to make it 10 or 20, I kept it at 6.99. And many people have told me that's a very affordable and reasonable price for the product given here.
I listen to all users and their suggestions and code their wanted features quickly with the new updates, big companies don't move fast or do these, even medium size companies do this, I am one person and I spend so much time chatting with users and listening to them, they suggest so many good ideas like being able to add your own API key which I added the next day or more shortcuts customization which I'll be adding soon and etc. You can always contact me at contact@shiftappai.com
Thanks everyone for all the support! I will be pushing more and more updates in the app everyday so stay tuned ;)
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