OpenBot is a promising project, but restricting LLM connections to API keys is a major limitation and, frankly, makes the product far less useful for me.
Many users already pay for subscriptions to services such as ChatGPT. Requiring them to maintain a separate API account, configure keys, and pay usage-based API charges creates needless cost and friction. For my use case, an API-only setup removes much of the practical value of OpenBot.
Please support authentication through existing accounts or subscription plans whenever the provider technically supports it and its terms permit it for example, an official OAuth or account-authentication flow. Where this is not possible, the interface and documentation should explain the technical or contractual limitation clearly.
Compared with Hermos Bot, OpenBot currently feels unnecessarily restrictive. Hermos Bot is much more useful to me because it does not make an API-only workflow the central requirement. OpenBot may be a good project, but this limitation makes it difficult to recommend or use in practice.
Please treat account/subscription-based authentication as an important product capability, not merely a minor convenience.
That said, go fuck yourself right in the middle of your assholes for only putting API on this one now.
OpenBot is a promising project, but restricting LLM connections to API keys is a major limitation and, frankly, makes the product far less useful for me.
Many users already pay for subscriptions to services such as ChatGPT. Requiring them to maintain a separate API account, configure keys, and pay usage-based API charges creates needless cost and friction. For my use case, an API-only setup removes much of the practical value of OpenBot.
Please support authentication through existing accounts or subscription plans whenever the provider technically supports it and its terms permit it for example, an official OAuth or account-authentication flow. Where this is not possible, the interface and documentation should explain the technical or contractual limitation clearly.
Compared with Hermos Bot, OpenBot currently feels unnecessarily restrictive. Hermos Bot is much more useful to me because it does not make an API-only workflow the central requirement. OpenBot may be a good project, but this limitation makes it difficult to recommend or use in practice.
Please treat account/subscription-based authentication as an important product capability, not merely a minor convenience.
That said, go fuck yourself right in the middle of your assholes for only putting API on this one now.