Introducing
Appster
What is it?
Appster is an Ai assistant put together and managed by MultiTech Visions, with the expressed purpose of providing you with the best possible AppSheet advice.
What can it do?
Appster is built using state of the art RAG generative Ai, allowing it to easily adapt on the fly, providing you with a natural language interface (NLI) where you can get direct answers to your AppSheet questions.
AppSheet Formulas
Appster is very good at AppSheet formulas
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Troubleshooting
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Adapting
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Expanding or Reducing
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Creating new formulas (even algorithmic ones!)
Build Advice
Appster has been shaped and it's answers guided by the build methodologies from MultiTech Visions
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Current user system
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Data subsets
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Security Filters
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No SELECT() functions (if we can)
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etc.
Simplification
One thing Appster is exceptionally good at is helping to simplify things. If you've got something that's very complex, Appster can help make sense of this in a cohesive way and help you build a system efficiently
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Table reductions
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Column Simplifications
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Process Optimization
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So much more...
There are honestly dozens of things I could list here, stemming from the innate capabilities of GenAi, all focused and centered around AppSheet app building - script advice, Google Sheets/Drive assistance, complex relational database design, QuickChart.io chart building, UX & formatting guidance, etc. - but in the hope of keeping things direct, these are the 3 best capabilities.
Appster Chat
The pro version of Appster is best experienced through the Appster Chat interface - a standard LLM chat interface that we've all become used to.
The version of Appster in ChatGPT is limited:
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Extremely limited instruction set space
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No control over resource checking
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No support is possible
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The pro version (found in Appster Chat and the Answer Portal) is much more advanced
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It has more nuance inside the instructions
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GPTs are restricted to 8k characters in their instruction set​
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By building my own chat service, I can make use of the full 128k+ window context size​
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With this increased window I'm afforded more space to work with for the instructions; this allows me to create numerous highly nuanced sections, each one covering certain aspects of working with the AppSheet platform.
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The result is a significant increase in the answer quality, with less back and forth required in order to get to the gold.​
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It has access to the most recent Resources & Tools
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While I do my best to maintain the resources that the ChatGPT version has access to, this lags behind sometimes as my schedule gets full.
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The Answer Portal version will have all the newest Resources & Tool entries created in the past few days, further enhancing it's answering capabilities.​
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The pro version even lists the Resources & Tools it found that might help during it's generation, allowing you to click on them and access their details.
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Better control over Resource & Tool searching
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Another helpful aspect of the pro version is that I have control over the process of the Ai searching through the Resources & Tools.
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The GPT version only searches through the knowledge base document when "it thinks" it needs to...
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Which sometimes doesn't happen, when it should.​
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The pro version searches for Resources & Tools EVERY TIME - no matter what - greatly enhancing the quality of the answers.
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Appster Pro
To get started using Appster follow these steps:
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Sign up for a support tier Wanderer or higher*
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Submit your payment
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Access Appster Chat
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Ask your questions
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Final Thank You
First I want to thank everyone that's participated in the early alpha testing of Appster; your questions have significantly aided in refining the responses so they're very high quality.
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And I want to thank YOU, for even considering giving Appster a try. It's from the support of individuals like yourself that allow independent services and solutions like this to become a reality.