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points by paulhallett 3 days ago | 0 comments

This is super cool but I feel like I could just build this myself with an LLM agent, so I get worried about the value proposition for services that try to charge for this. I guess really what you're paying for is some time saving and so that you don't have to burn your own tokens to build it?

[–] senordevnyc 3 days ago

As far as I can tell, this isn’t a product, and the page has a prompt to have your own coding agent generate these. Stepshots is a bigger product that offers interactive demos, which the page contrasts with these.

[–] ShinyLeftPad 3 days ago

Well you could have your LLM just generate that prompt then couldn't you?

[–] senordevnyc 3 days ago

Sure, but the prompt he’s sharing seems useful, and you can just copy paste it off the page. Not sure what your point is…

[–] ShinyLeftPad 2 days ago

I was supporing this:

> I could just build this myself with an LLM agent

Also, there's a Pricing page, so yeah.

[–] senordevnyc 2 days ago

The pricing page is for a larger product. This little looping html thing is just a little free thing the guy is giving away, in the form of a prompt so your agent can build it for you.

[–] ShinyLeftPad 2 days ago

so there is a product and we're back to "I could just build this myself with an LLM agent, so I get worried about the value proposition for services that try to charge for this".

[–] senordevnyc 2 days ago

facepalm

Excellent trolling, hats off to you!