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sf-wyon Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end

Great idea! I like the ergonomics of this for the developer-side, it's easy to add and puts the onus on the developer to have a robust auth system that avoids users creating 1000s of accounts so they can get unlimited LLM access.

One challenge on frontend-only apps is if the prompt is proprietary then this will be exposed unless you will then offer prompt templating or prompt mapping on your side i.e. the frontend says prompt: Template_123 and then this maps to the actual prompt somehow. Prompting is important still and maybe for a while so having the internals externally available could be sensitive.

sf-wyon Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications

Fair point! Usually in online chess, it auto-draws the game. I guess there's an assumption that that's what the players want / not running out of time in blitz games.

sf-wyon Show HN: Slack bot that automatically fixes spelling and grammar

We have an international team and many of the team don't speak English as a first language. We built LutherAI, our Slack bot, to help resolve spelling and grammar mistakes in real-time by editing messages in Slack. We've had requests to bring this to other chat tools but only Slack has in-place message editing right now.