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Show HN: I made a JSFiddle-style playground to test and share prompts fast

https://langfa.st/
28•eugenegusarov•13h ago
I built this out of frustration as I lead the development of AI features at Yola.com.

Prompt testing should be simple and straightforward. All I wanted was a simple way to test prompts with variables and jinja2 templates across different models, ideally somthing I could open during a call, run few tests, and share results with my team. But every tool I tried hit me with a clunky UI, required login and API keys, or forced a lengthy setup process.

And that's not all.

Then came the pricing. The last quote I got for one of the tools on the market was $6,000/year for a team of 16 people in a use-it-or-loose-it way. For a tool we use maybe 2–3 times per sprint. That’s just ridiculous!

IMO, it should be something more like JSFiddle. A simple prompt playground that does not require you to signup, does not require API keys, and let's experiment instantly, i.e. you just enter a browser URL and start working. Like JSFiddle has. And mainly, something that costs me nothing if I'm or my team is not using it.

Eventually I gave up looking for solution and decided to build it by myself.

Here it is: https://langfa.st

Help me find what's wrong or missing or does not work from you perspctive.

P.S. I did not put any limits or restrictions yet, so test it wisely. Don't make me broke, please.

Comments

Cheer2171•6h ago
Is this open source? Is it local browser API calls, or routing through your server?
coffeecoders•6h ago
On page load, execution logs panel hide all the buttons for me. https://i.imgur.com/eqDpu3Y.png

Maybe not obvious to users to collapse the panel.

Follow up, how are you handling actual calls to LLM?

jaredsohn•4h ago
Some feedback when I tried to share: 1. Think it should prepopulate the name like various AI apps do.

2. Got an error:

"Unexpected Application Error! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'slice') TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'slice') at Hv (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:11907588) at hi (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10922009) at Xa (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10941715) at fs (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10952350) at $c (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10997432) at Gc (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10997360) at Zc (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10997202) at Nc (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:10993991) at yd (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:11006790) at Cd (https://langfa.st/main.1510e80706059046a306.js:2:11005523) Hey developer

You can provide a way better UX than this when your app throws errors by providing your own ErrorBoundary or errorElement prop on your route."

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