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AI · April 24, 2023

Build GPT-powered apps with just GPT4 prompting

Hi everyone, We built a quick experiment this weekend that allows you to use GPT4 to quickly generate shareable web apps that use the ChatGPT API. Here’s a video of me building an app similar to https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvGd21V0u0 "What does this code do?" went to #1 on Hacker News a couple of months ago. The app takes a piece of code, asks GPT4 to analyze it and returns a simple, English description of the code. An app like this is super simple to build with MetaGPT. What other kinds of things can you build with this? *…

Build GPT-powered apps with just GPT4 prompting launched on April 24, 2023 with 22 votes, #1,533 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

MetaGPT enables users to quickly build and share web applications powered by GPT-4 and the ChatGPT API using only prompting. Designed for developers and non-technical creators, it simplifies app development by allowing users to generate functional web apps without writing code. Users can build various applications such as code analyzers, poem generators, story creators, and proofreaders. The platform offers free creation of up to four apps after signup, making it accessible for experimentation and prototyping GPT-powered ideas.

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An AI-powered text-to-app platform

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone, We built a quick experiment this weekend that allows you to use GPT4 to quickly generate shareable web apps that use the ChatGPT API. Here’s a video of me building an app similar to https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvGd21V0u0 "What does this…

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