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Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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post #13

>They authenticate with their existing Claude account Only works if both app producer and user are in the Claude ecosystem

Seems like it's essentially the same model as OpenAI's Custom GPTs [0], but now with the custom code in front of the AI rather than behind it.

[0] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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post #29
post #6

Is this much different from the custom GPTs that OpenAI pushed a year or two ago?

Same question, but I'm less clear on how we devs get paid here. Still hoping someone builds the App Store for custom GPTs where we don't have to worry about payment and user infrastructure. Happy giving up a percentage for that butnot30percentguys.

In this case the code in question is actually running on the service providers metal, essentially PaaS.

I wouldn't feel comfortable comparing that to the 30% i-wonder-who takes for providing a store to download packages that then run on the edge.

(And fwiw, all of them should be able to take any percentage they want. It's only an issue if there is no other option)

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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post #40

Isn’t that what ChatGPT plugins tried to do? I don’t see the point. If I create something, others can can use with their account, what’s my value?

I'm building something like this. The value to you would be that you could earn a margin on the token costs. That is, the end user is charged 2x the token cost of the API call. The API provider earns the base cost, the platform owner earns 20% of the remaining cost, and the webapp creator earns 80% of the remaining price.

So for an API call that costs $0.50, the end user is charged $1; and from that AI API earns $0.50, the webapp creator earns $0.40 and the host earns $0.10.

I'm trying this out with https://codeplusequalsai.com right now but it's not clear to me yet that it will take off!

But clearly, the value to you should be that you could earn $ based on the token usage from end-users.

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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I used to love to make silly websites or apps with new technologies. Been doing it since flash. I have a pretty decent hit rate! It’s not unusually to get half a million or so people try one of them. But with AI that model is just totally broken because the running cost is so high. If I have half a million people come play my silly AI game that I have no wish to monetise - I am gonna be POOR very fast. Log in with [i…

"Log in With Google" to use Drive storage has long been a thing. Maybe proxying Gemini usage isn't too far off.

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#46
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, it's an interesting model. I wonder what the approval ui looks like for the app end-user? Is it super clear to them that they're financially responsible for their usage?

Yeah I wonder how that actually works - because I would guess people are logging in with their consumer login not an api login, so they’re not really even in the mindset of limits and cost per token.

Precisely. You click on a claude link, and suddenly it's, "You are now financially responsible for your actions from here on..." I'm sure they've spent a lot of time thinking through the ui/ux of this.

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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I used to love to make silly websites or apps with new technologies. Been doing it since flash. I have a pretty decent hit rate! It’s not unusually to get half a million or so people try one of them. But with AI that model is just totally broken because the running cost is so high. If I have half a million people come play my silly AI game that I have no wish to monetise - I am gonna be POOR very fast. Log in with [i…

This is seriously lacking but I think things like jailbreaks and malicious prompts make it a bit too brittle for now

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#49

Is this the end of - or at least a significant challenge to - SaaS? Why buy into saas tooling if you can just slap something together - that you fully own - with something like this?

maybe not b2b saas since that has always been around service contracts - but a lot of those internal processes that currently run in excel are prime for AI mini-app replacement.

this is delivering what no-code promised us.

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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This is the future of applications. Still not sure if model providers are the ones to do it. I think of LLM as infrastructure and I can build apps on it in a "general" way. Not the bespoke wrapper apps that are proliferating today, but LLM as a native interface to build(and use the app).
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