I believe Greta will play a significant role in ushering in the era of the idea person. It’s perfect for people who’ve always dreamed of building software but couldn’t because they lacked the technical know-how.

We should take a minute to appreciate the team for making something like this possible for non-technical people like me.

Here's an app I built with Greta for my own needs: https://app.swipepocket.com/

My app is obviously a work in progress, but I think it’s a brilliant start for someone who can’t code to save their life.

I did run into a few bugs along the way. Had a preview issue where the UI wasn’t showing up in Greta. This happens because Greta uses hash routing to avoid reloads (they add a '#' to the URL). When I asked the assistant to fix the URL, it changed to browser routing, which completely broke the preview option. My advice is to make all your changes first, until you’re happy with the UI, then clean up the URL.

The version control could use some work. It does create checkpoints every time you make a big change, but I'd love something more seamless.  Maybe a dropdown where you can roll back to previous versions. Right now, I have to scroll back up through the chat to find a checkpoint and then restore from there. The UX around this could be much smoother.

You can upload images, PDFs, and other files, but it would be so much easier if I could just paste images directly from my clipboard instead of having to save screenshots and upload them.

Greta could use more transparency and documentation around how the AI assistant is currently getting the context, what the context window is, some best practices around how to avoid hitting that context limit, how to prompt the AI effectively, things like that. It would also be nice to have another option to start a new chat, but with all the project information as the context, just to make sure there's a workaround for hitting that context limit if it comes to that.

More payment integrations are needed. Right now, it's only Stripe as the payment provider, but we need more payment providers like PayPal, Razor Pay, Molly, etc.

I’ve noticed some delay with support over the past few days. This is understandable, considering the influx of new customers they’ve onboarded from AppSumo. It's clear they care about their customers, are passionate about the product, and have a solid vision. That's why I decided to jump in and be part of their journey.

I'm not sure I'd use it for websites because of SEO performance concerns:
1) I don't know if Greta uses server-side rendering to send the full HTML to Googlebot. It uses hashes (#) in URLs for navigation.
2) Clean, human-readable URLs would be better for SEO.
3) Not sure how they handle SEO metadata, though Greta might be able to add it if we prompt correctly.
4) I don't think it adds schema markup either, which again might be possible with the right instructions.
5) Internal linking is trickier because you have to prompt the AI with actual URLs, rather than editing the text directly.

I hope they go all out with marketing because it's a very competitive space. Players like Bolt and Loveable are already owning the mindshare in this category.