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Opening a chat

The home page in Hamster Studio is a conversation canvas, not a dashboard. The input is centred, your three most recent conversations sit below it, and you start a new chat the same way you pick up an old one — without navigating anywhere.

New conversation view showing the centred input with recent conversations below

How it works

  1. Open the home page — Input centred, recent conversations as cards below it. Each card shows the title, how long ago the conversation was active, and the message count.

  2. Start a new chat — Type your own message or use one of the four one-tap prompt categories (Idea, Strategy, Feature, Code) — each expands into curated starter prompts that drop into the input for you to refine. Press Enter to send. The welcome header fades, the input pins to the bottom, and the AI starts replying.

  3. Reopen a past chat — Click any history card to load that conversation in place. The full message history scrolls in and you continue where you left off.

  4. Browse further — Three cards show by default. Click "Show more" to expand up to 20 conversations in place; "Show less" collapses back.

  5. Jump to a linked Brief — Conversations that produced a Brief show a document icon on their card. Clicking them routes to the Brief (the persistent artefact), not the chat. The original conversation is still accessible from the Brief's activity timeline.

  6. Back to start anytime — Once a conversation is active, a back arrow appears top-left. Clicking it returns you to a fresh home page with the input centred.

Starting a new chat

  • One-tap prompts. Four categories — Idea, Strategy, Feature, Code — each with starter prompts that drop into the input for you to refine.
  • Animated welcome header. Cycles through action words ("Let's ship", "Let's create", "Let's brainstorm") when the page loads; settles once you start typing.
  • Thread auto-creation. A new thread is prepared before you type your first character. The message goes straight through when you send.
  • Suggestion buttons. Some workspaces show quick suggestion buttons under the AI's opening message. This may need to be enabled for your workspace.

Finding past chats

  • Automatic titling. Conversations are titled based on their content. Untitled ones show "Untitled conversation"; titles aren't editable from the history view.
  • Activity timestamps. Each card shows a relative timestamp — "Just now", "3 hours ago", "2 days ago" — based on the last message.
  • Message count. Each card shows the number of messages so you can tell a quick exchange from an extended session at a glance.
  • Realtime updates. The grid updates as new conversations become active. Conversations started by teammates appear with a Brief highlight animation.
  • Brief linkage. Conversations that produced a Brief have a document icon; clicking them routes to the Brief rather than the chat.
  • Pagination in place. Expanding or collapsing the grid, and reopening a conversation, all happen without route changes.
Conversation history grid on the home page showing recent chat cards

Tips

  • The home page input is always ready. You don't have to navigate anywhere to start fresh — click the back arrow from any active thread.
  • If a recent topic isn't visible in the first three cards, click "Show more" before starting a new chat. You may have already made progress on it.
  • Conversations linked to Briefs are also accessible from the Brief's activity timeline. The Brief page is the better place to continue working on the content itself; the home page is better for a fresh back-and-forth.

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