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Softr launches AI-native platform to help nontechnical teams build business apps without code

Softr, the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix, Google, and Stripe, today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has produced a market full of impressive demos but very little production-ready business software. The company's new AI Co-Builder lets non-technical users describe in plain language the software they need, and the platform generates a fully integrated system — database, user interface, permissions, and business logic included — connected and ready for real-world deployment immediately. The move marks a fundamental evolution for a company that spent five years building a no-code business before layering AI on top of what it describes as a proven infrastructure of constrained, pre-built building blocks. "Most AI app-builders stop at the shiny demo stage," Softr Co-Founder and CEO Mariam Hakobyan told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "A lot of the time, people generate calculators, landing pages, and websites — and there are a huge number of use cases for those. But there is no actual business application builder, which has completely different needs." The announcement arrives at a moment when the AI app-building market finds itself at an inflection point. A wave of so-called "vibe coding" platforms — tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit that generate application code from natural language prompts — have captured developer mindshare and venture capital over the past 18 months. But Hakobyan argues those tools fundamentally misserve the audience Softr is chasing: the estimated billions of non-technical business users inside companies who need custom operational software but lack the skills to maintain AI-generated code when it inevitably breaks. Why AI-generated app prototypes keep failing when real business data is involved The core tension Softr is trying to resolve is one that has plag

Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?

With the recent incidents (DataTalks database wipe by Claude Code, Replit agent deleting data during code freeze), it&#x27;s clear that running AI agents in production without observability is risky.<p>Common failure modes I&#x27;ve seen: no visibility into what the agent did step-by-step, surprise LLM bills from untracked token usage, risky outputs going undetected, and no audit trail for post-mortems.<p>I&#x27;ve been building AgentShield (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;useagentshield.com) — an observability SDK for AI agents. It does execution tracing, risk detection on outputs, cost tracking per agent&#x2F;model, and human-in-the-loop approval for high-risk actions. Plugs into LangChain, CrewAI, and OpenAI Agents SDK with a 2-line integration.<p>Curious what others are using. Rolling your own monitoring? LangSmith? Langfuse? Or just hoping for the best?

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, giving enterprises access to Claude-powered tools from Replit, GitLab, Harvey and more

San Francisco startup Anthropic continues to ship new AI products and services at a blistering pace, despite a messy ongoing dispute with the U.S. Department of War. Today, the company announced Claude Marketplace, a new offering that lets enterprises with an existing Anthropic spend commitment apply part of it toward tools and applications powered by Anthropic's Claude models but made and offered by external partners including GitLab, Harvey, Lovable, Replit, Rogo and Snowflake. According to Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace FAQ, the program is designed to simplify procurement and consolidate AI spend. Anthropic says the Marketplace is now in limited preview and that enterprises interested in using it should reach out to their Anthropic account team to get started. For customers interested in the Marketplace, Anthropic says purchases made through it “count against a portion of your existing Anthropic commitment,” and that the company will manage invoicing for partner spend — meaning enterprises can use part of their existing Anthropic commitment to buy Claude-powered partner solutions without separately handling partner invoicing. In effect, Anthropic is positioning Claude Marketplace as a more centralized way for enterprises to procure certain Claude-powered partner tools. Yet, the whole point of Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Cowork applications for many users was that they could shift enterprise spend and time away from current third-party software-as-a-service (Saas) apps and instead, they could "vibe code" new solutions or bespoke, AI-powered workflows. This idea is so pervasive that prior Claude integrations have on several recent occasions caused a major selloff in SaaS stocks after investors thought Claude could threaten the underlying companies and applications. Claude Marketplace seems to be pushing against that idea, suggesting current SaaS apps are still valuable and perhaps even more useful and appealing to enterprises with Claude integrated into them

I wasted $500 testing AI coding tools so you don't have to 💸 Here's what actually works: 🧪 Testing ideas? → V0 or Lovable Built a landing page in 90 seconds. Fully clickable, looked real. Code's me

I wasted $500 testing AI coding tools so you don't have to 💸 Here's what actually works: 🧪 Testing ideas? → V0 or Lovable Built a landing page in 90 seconds. Fully clickable, looked real. Code's messy but perfect for validation. 🏗️ Shipping real apps? → Bolt Full dev environment in your browser. I built a document uploader with front end + back end + database in one afternoon. 💻 Coding with AI? → Cursor or Windsurf Cursor = stable, used by Google engineers Windsurf = faster, newer, more aggressive Both are insane. 📚 Learning from scratch? → Replit Best coding teacher I've found. Explains errors, walks you through fixes, teaches as you build. Here's what 500+ hours taught me: The tool doesn't matter if you're using it for the wrong stage. Testing ≠ Building ≠ Coding ≠ Learning Stop comparing features. Match your goal first. Drop what you're building 👇 I'll tell you exactly which tool to use Save this. You'll need it. #AI #AITools #TechTok #ChatGPT #Coding

Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

**Hello premium customers!** Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, thank you to Kasey Kagawa for helping with the maths on this. [***Soundtrack: Killer Be Killed - Melting Of My Marrow***](https://youtu.be/bAO5sM89HUw?ref=wheresyoured.at) [Earlier in the week](https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-and-openai-have-begun-the-subprime-ai-crisis/), I put out a piece about how Anthropic had begun cranking up prices on its enterprise customers, most notably Cursor, a $500 million Annualised Recurring Revenue (meaning month multiplied by 12) startup that is also Anthropic’s largest customer for API access to models like Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4. As a result, Cursor had to make massive changes to the business model that had let it grow so large in the first place, replacing (on June 17 2025, a few weeks after Anthropic’s May 22 launch of its  Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models) a relatively limitless $20-a-month offering with a much-more-limited $20-a-month package and a less-limited-but-still-worse-than-the-old-$20-tier $200-a-month subscription, pissing off customers and leading to [most of the Cursor Subreddit](http://reddit.com/r/cursor/?ref=wheresyoured.at) turning into people complaining or discussing they’d cancel their subscription. Though I recommend you go and read the previous analysis, the long and short of it is that Anthropic increased the costs on its largest customer — a coding startup — about 8 days (on May 30 2025) after launching two models (Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4) specifically dedicated to coding. I concluded with the following: > What I have described in this newsletter is one of the most dramatic and aggressive price increases in the history of software, with effectively no historical comparison. No infrastructure provider in the history of Silicon Valley has so distinctly and aggressively upped its prices on customers, let alone their largest and most prominent ones, and doing so is an act of desperation that suggests fundamental weaknesses in their business models.Worse still, these changes will begin to kneecap an already-shaky enterprise revenue story for two companies desperate to maintain one. OpenAI's priority pricing is basic rent-seeking, jacking up prices to guarantee access. Anthropic's pricing changes are intentional, mob-like attempts to increase revenue by hitting its most-active customers exactly where it hurts, launching a model for coding startups to integrate that’s **specifically priced to increase costs on enterprise coding startups.** But the whole time I kept coming back to a question: why, exactly, would Anthropic do this? Was this rent seeking? A desperate attempt to boost revenue? An attempt to bring its largest customer’s compute demands under control [as its regularly pushed Anthropic’s capacity to the limit](https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/cursor-is-anthropics-largest-customer-and-maxing-out-their-gpus/?ref=wheresyoured.at)? Or, perhaps, it was a little simpler: was Anthropic having its own issues with capacity, and maybe even cash flow. Another announcement happened on May 22 2025 — [Anthropic launched Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/claude-code?ref=wheresyoured.at), a version of Anthropic’s Claude that runs directly in your terminal (or integrates into your IDE) that uses Anthropic’s Claude models to write and manage code. This is, I realize, a bit of an oversimplification, but the actual efficacy or ability of Claude Code is largely irrelevant other than in the sheer amount of cloud compute it requires. As a reminder, [Anthropic also launched its Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 models on May 22 2025](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4?ref=wheresyoured.at), shortly followed by its Service Tiers, and then both Cursor and vibe-coding startup Replit’s price changes, which I covered last week. These are not the moves of a company brimming with confidence about its infrastructure or financial position, which made me want to work out *why things might have got more expensive.* And then I found out, and it was really, really fucking bad. Claude Code, as a product, is quite popular, along with its Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 models. It’s accessible via Anthropic’s $20-a-month “Pro” subscription (but only using the Claude Sonnet 4 model), or the $100 (5x the usage of Pro) and $200 (20x the usage of Pro) ”Max” subscriptions. While people hit rate limits, they seem to be getting a lot out of using it, to the point that you have people on Reddit boasting [about running eight parallel instances of Claude Code](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1lmhm5x/idk_how_you_guys_are_using_claude_code_but_im/). Something to know about software engineers is that they’re *animals*, and I mean that with respect. If something can be automated, a software engineer is at the very least going to *take a look at automat

OpenAI’s Game-Changing o1 Description: Big news in the AI world! OpenAI is shaking things up with the launch of ChatGPT Pro, priced at $200/month, and it’s not just a premium subscription—it’s a glim

OpenAI’s Game-Changing o1 Description: Big news in the AI world! OpenAI is shaking things up with the launch of ChatGPT Pro, priced at $200/month, and it’s not just a premium subscription—it’s a glimpse into the future of AI. Let me break it down: First, the Pro plan offers unlimited access to cutting-edge models like o1, o1-mini, and GPT-4o. These aren’t your typical language models. The o1 series is built for reasoning tasks—think solving complex problems, debugging, or even planning multi-step workflows. What makes it special? It uses “chain of thought” reasoning, mimicking how humans think through difficult problems step by step. Imagine asking it to optimize your code, develop a business strategy, or ace a technical interview—it can handle it all with unmatched precision. Then there’s o1 Pro Mode, exclusive to Pro subscribers. This mode uses extra computational power to tackle the hardest questions, ensuring top-tier responses for tasks that demand deep thinking. It’s ideal for engineers, analysts, and anyone working on complex, high-stakes projects. And let’s not forget the advanced voice capabilities included in Pro. OpenAI is taking conversational AI to the next level with dynamic, natural-sounding voice interactions. Whether you’re building voice-driven applications or just want the best voice-to-AI experience, this feature is a game-changer. But why $200? OpenAI’s growth has been astronomical—300M WAUs, with 6% converting to Plus. That’s $4.3B ARR just from subscriptions. Still, their training costs are jaw-dropping, and the company has no choice but to stay on the cutting edge. From a game theory perspective, they’re all-in. They can’t stop building bigger, better models without falling behind competitors like Anthropic, Google, or Meta. Pro is their way of funding this relentless innovation while delivering premium value. The timing couldn’t be more exciting—OpenAI is teasing a 12 Days of Christmas event, hinting at more announcements and surprises. If this is just the start, imagine what’s coming next! Could we see new tools, expanded APIs, or even more powerful models? The possibilities are endless, and I’m here for it. If you’re a small business or developer, this $200 investment might sound steep, but think about what it could unlock: automating workflows, solving problems faster, and even exploring entirely new projects. The ROI could be massive, especially if you’re testing it for just a few months. So, what do you think? Is $200/month a step too far, or is this the future of AI worth investing in? And what do you think OpenAI has in store for the 12 Days of Christmas? Drop your thoughts in the comments! #product #productmanager #productmanagement #startup #business #openai #llm #ai #microsoft #google #gemini #anthropic #claude #llama #meta #nvidia #career #careeradvice #mentor #mentorship #mentortiktok #mentortok #careertok #job #jobadvice #future #2024 #story #news #dev #coding #code #engineering #engineer #coder #sales #cs #marketing #agent #work #workflow #smart #thinking #strategy #cool #real #jobtips #hack #hacks #tip #tips #tech #techtok #techtiktok #openaidevday #aiupdates #techtrends #voiceAI #developerlife #o1 #o1pro #chatgpt #2025 #christmas #holiday #12days #cursor #replit #pythagora #bolt