It only has $1m volume, so even that conclusion is a bit of a stretch. By comparison NCAA tournament has $15m, and US confirms aliens this year has $18m.

Love all the tools mentioned in the comments, Pyodide is a fun tool. I built https://pyground.vercel.app with it a few years ago, as a quick way to run Python on a CSV/JSON file locally in the browser. For a while Python/Matplotlib was what I was most comfortable writing quick and simple analysis scripts with, and this was my go to for one-off data analysis work. You can drag-drop a file in, then some 'clever' code makes it available as `data` in the Python script so you don't have to write any parsing code yourself.

Now I'd probably just get Claude Code to write something locally, but there might be some value in a version of pyground that can use an LLM to write the Python code for you (and give it the data shape) but keeps the local execution setup the same.

You only need to look at the US to see that a government dedicated to mass deportation is more authoritarian and worse for civil liberties.

I think you’d just have to unfollow sources that publish AI slop. But that doesn’t seem too difficult with RSS, I can’t think of any source that sometimes publishes AI slop and sometimes I want to read their stuff. I guess if you tried to put an X feed in there, but I doubt you can do that now anyway.

A similar product in the mobile space is Rork - I haven't used it but I've seen it on twitter a bit. I definitely wouldn't be surprised to see Apple acquire one of them.

> If anything they do background processes better since you can send a very long task off to a server and shut off your computer, come back later and pick up where you left off.

I think it's fair to say that's a benefit of web apps over native apps in many cases. But for the kind of business app use case they're talking about, it's also a tradeoff. I can imagine a lot of business apps where you don't want to send the data to the server of a Replit etc. and doing all the processing local is a benefit.

They say they're targeting Mac only for now, so it could be native code, or they could just have not tested/refined their prompt for other platforms yet.

> This was never the case for the desktop tools I mentioned.

I'd be curious how well Claude Code works for a native Swift app on macOS, if that's the platform you're on. I've found it extremely good at iOS apps so my guess is it would be equally good at building a native macOS app with the same stack.

I've tried using Codex and ChatGPT while working on a small SwiftUI app. It's not very good when it comes to newer APIs and features - I imagine due to lack of data about these things. Very often it would rather push something AppKit-based instead of SwiftUI.

It works, but feels really janky and messy.

I had one very annoying bug with file export API where extra view on export window would appear with a delay. No matter what I tried it didn't manage to fix it. Instead it would go on to try and completely rewrite whole file export class in various ways... which still didn't work as it claimed it would. Ended up fixing it manually by caching instance view locally.

I think their value add if you’re comfortable with Claude Code is probably some nice tooling for the packaging, and they probably sign apps for you too?

Wouldn’t most of these costs have been going for a few weeks, given the build up?

From what I’ve heard the actual restriction is just on using Claude for stuff they’re doing for the Pentagon. They’ll keep using Claude for everything else and be less effective when they work for the government, and that’s fine because everyone else working for the government will have the same handicap.