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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by mettamage »

CSMastermind wrote: post #53

I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…

> I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user.

I haven't tried it, or know a lot about it, but isn't this the whole claw thing?

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by felixding »

Wow, this is very close to an app I’m building. My take is that the key part is not just generating the workflow, but making it reviewable and deterministic enough that businesses can actually trust it.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by morpheuskafka »

ageitgey wrote: post #90
CSMastermind wrote: post #53

I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…

> that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That's what they aim Claude Cowork at. Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) I understand the impulse to provide a UI to manage codebases, etc. But my observation is…

> Any app built on top of this stack to 'make it easier' is competing with 'I don't care what's happening, just ask Claude to do it'.

To put it another way, the customers of these frontier models are implicitly being competed against by the model itself.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

felixding wrote: post #133

Wow, this is very close to an app I’m building. My take is that the key part is not just generating the workflow, but making it reviewable and deterministic enough that businesses can actually trust it.

I'm sure there are innumerable Adderall infused "startups" vibe coding this exact thing right now.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by lukan »

lanyard-textile wrote: post #128
lukan wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I feel like what I'm making here is the secret sauce" Good for your feelings, but I feel the same for my work .. The main problem is still, agents are not reliable and what normal (and dev) people really want, is to have them reliable. Or well, tools to manage unreliable agents in a more clear way.

;) Then I think I have the trillion dollar idea. We'll see. Good luck to you.

Same to you.

(It is a big market I think)

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by vrganj »

tyre wrote: post #110
nicce wrote: post #95

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> Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) The drug is scary when everyone is depending on it. I wonder what is future like.

Same as anything else. It’ll go down sometimes, people will take a break and chat, then it will come back up. Like Slack or GitHub or AWS or whatever. It’s almost always a net positive to wait vs do it yourself.

I'm more scared at everyone outsourcing their thinking to a private, for-profit company.

What could possibly go wrong.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by coldtea »

safety1st wrote: post #103
nicce wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) The drug is scary when everyone is depending on it. I wonder what is future like.

Seems far less scary to me than, say, building an electrical grid in a cold climate, where if it fails for a few days people start to die. Oh wait...

It's the same, on steroids.
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