Show HN: A marketplace for LLM-powered webapps earning on token margins
TL;DR
Hi everyone, I've encountered two major problems while building AI-powered sites: 1) Most agentic tooling doesn't have a enough of a targeted approach to edits to existing files, and will make extraneous edits, 2) Many users will want to try things casually but not spend on each LLM-powered webapp they want to use. The first problem of targeting edits was a much bigger issue previously, where, before agents, ChatGPT would just delete a chuck of code and replace it with `// existing code goes here`.
Nauti's Take
Promising double idea: indie devs earn on the token margin instead of forcing users into subscriptions — that lowers the bar for micro AI apps significantly. The AST approach also tries to solve the annoying over-editing of agentic tools that Cursor and Gemini CLI users know all too well.
The catch: marketplaces live and die on liquidity, and a single indie player will struggle against established platforms without distribution. Worth a look for experimental devs; mainstream maturity is still some way off.
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