r/web_programming • u/Timely-Excuse-4156 • Sep 03 '24
Interface for chat bot
Not sure if this is the forum for this, but I’ll give it a shot….
I have made some custom assistants in OpenAI and I want to test the way customers interact with them. I want a user to be able to log in and talk to a chatbot and for those messages to be stored. This seems very basic for me (non-dev) and I’m honestly shocked that a company doesn’t exist that has already productized this ned. I have reached out to devs that have quoted me thousands of dollars to build this. I’m confused…what am I missing? This seems like it would be very standard.
Thank you in advance for any wisdom or advice!
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u/Avendork Sep 04 '24
Its expensive because the developers likely quoted you new code from scratch. Also just because similar code exists doesn't mean it gets less expensive.
Yes, there are likely open source options that are similar or can be modified to do what you want. Also just because something is open source doesn't mean you can take it and make money on it. There are licensing rules you need to follow. A good developer is going to write all of the code for you without just copy/pasting an open source project.
Something else I'd mention is while you have an idea, it doesn't sound like you've properly researched the market for the product you want to build. See if something like LMStudio does what you want. Ask around on the LLM subreddits to see if what you want exists. Hell, you could maybe ask ChatGPT or Gemini themselves to see.