[HN Gopher] Show HN: Deploy Button for GPT-3 API Back Ends
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       Show HN: Deploy Button for GPT-3 API Back Ends
        
       Author : eob
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-01-30 18:42 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | humanistbot wrote:
       | > Do I have to pay? Our free introduction has a limit of 500 API
       | calls and 200,000 characters / 40 MB of plugin (LLM) usage. Reach
       | out to support@steamship.com to increase you limit.
       | 
       | And I'm out. I've easily made 500 calls to OpenAI in a day of
       | playing with it. There is no pricing page. I'm not going to email
       | someone to get a quote. It's 2023.
        
         | eob wrote:
         | Steamshipper here --
         | 
         | Totally fair! In our case we're just trying hard to maximize
         | product iteration cycles before we build out billing, etc.
         | 
         | If we just provided a way to pass through your own OpenAI key,
         | does that work better for you?
        
           | fidrelity wrote:
           | Just want to point out what a constructive and respectful way
           | this is to reply to criticism and collect product feedback at
           | the same time.
           | 
           | Well done!
        
           | fernandopj wrote:
           | There's an YC company that can help you with that, Kable:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30627558
           | 
           | I've talked to them before, they seem great, check them out.
        
           | unsupp0rted wrote:
           | That would work for me, yeah. And great response!
        
           | thedorkknight wrote:
           | Not the guy you're responding to but if you did that yeah I'd
           | play around with it
        
           | humanistbot wrote:
           | > If we just provided a way to pass through your own OpenAI
           | key, does that work better for you?
           | 
           | That would be my ideal, thanks!
        
             | eob wrote:
             | Thanks for the feedback!
        
       | tehsauce wrote:
       | How exactly is this different than just importing the openai
       | library in a regular backend template?
        
         | eob wrote:
         | [Steamshipper here] This particular Prompt API template is a
         | simplified starting place to what we're working on. So you're
         | right to ask that question -- it's not so different than a
         | lambda in this form.
         | 
         | More broadly: there are a lot of moving parts to a production
         | AI backend: vectors, LLM chaining, long-running async tasks,
         | persistent state, data conversion, etc.
         | 
         | We're working toward a framework that lets you snap together
         | those pieces at hackathon speed... and then translate it into a
         | multi-tenant, auto-managed infra stack out of the box.
        
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       | eob wrote:
       | Steamship is Heroku for LLM apps.
       | 
       | We're working on the mechanics of deploying and scaling all the
       | amazing prompt-based backends everyone is building --- chaining,
       | prompt-search-prompt, image & audio generation.
       | 
       | This link is a simplified hosting harness we built building &
       | launching a Python + Prompt API endpoint.
        
         | icey wrote:
         | This looks slick! You can generate images and audio with
         | this?!? Seems a lot faster than doing it myself
        
           | eob wrote:
           | Working on it!
           | 
           | Right now our examples are pretty simple. But you can chain
           | prompts manually and/or pull in services like DALL-E or voice
           | gen.
           | 
           | We're working on the rails to do that in a way that'll scale
           | well cleanly across API users of your app.
        
         | jadbox wrote:
         | How do third-party API services (me) earn? Otherwise as a
         | developer, I'm providing a free service to users, and yet I'm
         | paying steamship's hosting costs.
         | 
         | Please provide an alternative to ShipQL or just drop it
         | entirely. Most developers I know are very allergic to learning
         | new company-specific DSLs.
        
           | dkolas wrote:
           | The query problem is hard. If we provide a DSL, someone has
           | to learn the DSL, which no one likes. If we provide you some
           | standard QL, we still have to explain what parts of it are
           | supported / unsupported, and how it applies to our specific
           | data model. We started with a small DSL and will have to see
           | how people want to use it. Thanks for the feedback!
        
           | eob wrote:
           | Re: earning -- 100%. We'd love to talk to you if you've got
           | thoughts / requests (crew@steamship.com).
           | 
           | Re: DSLs -- what's the famous saying? "All services that
           | survive eventually grow large enough to re-implement email"?
           | :) We hear you though; if there's a way to support a standard
           | QL atop the domain we're serving, we'll give it a good look.
        
         | terpimost wrote:
         | The thing which could be a great offer is ability to supply
         | data. I'm not sure if it involves up training or something
         | else. Imagine I have a bunch of documents and I want answer to
         | be based on my data.
        
           | eob wrote:
           | That "Ask the Bible" service that went viral the other day on
           | Twitter had me thinking the same thing.
           | 
           | Especially for the set of problems with "Step 1: Hosting
           | embeddings for some large corpus", it feels like there's a
           | really useful role for offering static query/AKNN search atop
           | popular datasets.
        
             | crosen99 wrote:
             | Here's a company doing that: https://www.usemeru.com/
        
       | richbradshaw wrote:
       | I tried this out using ship try. I'm not a python dev, so
       | installed pip and Jupyter, then tried the ticket tagging one and
       | the audio transcripts one, but neither worked - one referenced a
       | json file of ticket examples that didn't exist, and the audio one
       | couldn't import utils.
       | 
       | Not a python person, so not sure if this is me or not, but just
       | very unclear what this is doing/what it's meant to do.
       | 
       | Idea sounds useful, but I can't tell what this is meant to
       | do/what I can do with this.
       | 
       | No pricing also means that hard to understand if this is
       | something I can use in production or not.
       | 
       | I'm usually a typescript/lambda kinda guy for reference, and have
       | already used openai in production on that stack.
        
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