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Doug Keefe | Build Fast AI's avatar

This is great! A voice agent was on my list of To Dos.

Caroline Vrauwdeunt's avatar

Couldn’t you have done all on Claude 4 to start with? I just created a complete working Chat Float for our platform as a non tech founder. Great UI, insync with all our brand requirements.

If you’re interested I’ll be publishing on this next Sunday.

David Szabo-Stuban's avatar

It would've been possible, but with heavy concessions:

- Claude 4 is very expensive. I racked up a $60 bill via Claude Code in no time

- AI-generated UI still tends to be very generic slop. This requires manual control (hence 21st.dev)

David Szabo-Stuban's avatar

yep. very. to me at least.

there are a few telling signs that may or may not be a problem.

- use of Arial bold as a default option for headings

- "wall to wall" toast boxes

- overusing emojis

- misaligned paddings in the chat input field

(ultimately if analytics data shows good conversion, nobody should give a shit ofc)

Caroline Vrauwdeunt's avatar

Now you are just being a prick, that is simple css, over using emoji how? These are not misaligned paddings, simply the intro text is a little too long for the input box. Which is a super quick fix and on our radar.

I can take criticism. But this is really about nothing.

It’s a good functional and well designed chat float, and does the job well. It integrates in our support flow and can live in various places on our website and backend.

Using Claude console and API, will be a gamechanger for many non tech founders or product managers. Not copying and pasting code back and forth to various platforms hacking away without understanding what the fuck you are doing, but getting a proper development flow, where you can track back changes, bug fixing done and updated requests and even builds in security measures.

David Szabo-Stuban's avatar

Caroline, you asked if I thought the site looked generic, so I gave my take.if the design works for your metrics, run with it. more power to you. as for your last comment: i agree:D

Caroline Vrauwdeunt's avatar

np - I asked if the chat float looked generic. The site looks generic by design since it is support documentation. But good to know we agree on at least one thing ;)

Filing Cabinet's avatar

When I see a company representative being rude and defensive by swearing and insulting, it really repels me as a potential customer…Perhaps you are having a bad day? 🧐🤓