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Comment by IMTDb | Hacker News Reader

Since you are asking for feedback, I would seriously consider buying licenses for my team if:

- We are allowed to use our own API key to get your extension to talk directly with our LLM of choice. I understand you are using Claude right now, but we are on OpenAI & Copilot; since we already went through the hoops of "accepting that our codebase will be sent to an LLM", we are trying to control the level of exposure. OpenAI is already in, Claude isn't; and you definitely won't be so having our codebase go through your infra is a no go. Local LLM would be incredible, but it might be not technically achievable yet.

- The price is too steep. I get way more value out of Copilot than I get from CodeViz which is similarly priced. I understand you have LLM costs at the moment, but as the point above defends: it does not have to be that way. I would find it way more "fair" to have to insert my LLM API (even for the free version and/or trial, right now you are loosing money on that) and have a separate cost for the extension; possibly with a "lifelong for current version + 1 year of upgrade license". Let me pay the usage to the LLM monthly depending on my actual usage, and pay you to build a very nice prompt engineering system.

Thanks for providing context on the LLM approval process! User provided API keys will be completed by the end of the week: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/3

> The price is too steep. I get way more value out of Copilot than I get from CodeViz which is similarly priced.

Copilot is a great product and inexpensive, I do understand where you're coming from. Personally, I spend most of my time reading code and gathering context vs typing code. We hope to provide much more than $19/mo in value, so the subscription is a good signal for whether we're making something useful for you. We also have more features for team licenses that we haven't publicized.

The reduced subscription price for using your own API key does make sense though. If you send me an email or message me on discord I'd be happy to chat this over. This goes for anyone with a strong opinion on the matter

> The price is too steep

what is the price? After looking at the website or the marketplace, I can't see any pricing at all (except the "free" on the marketplace page)

> I understand you are using Claude right now

On the marketplace page it says "We do use LLMs and sections of code to prompt Claude/OpenAI." under "Data & Privacy"

Was looking for that too. The only way I found out was installing it, create a call graph, and the first click took me to a payment page. $19,95/month iirc I too would prefer to have this information upfront.

Also, not being able to click past the first layer in the free version is a bit too limited in my opinion.

Sounds promising, but having to fill out my payment details for a trial version is a a hard no for me.

> The only way I found out was installing it, create a call graph, and the first click took me to a payment page

Yes, we need to be much more clear. It's not intentionally hard to find, we just been distracted with bugs and haven't had time to update the website. The subscription didn't exist until a couple of days ago. The layered architecture is a feature that we made public specifically for the HN community

> Having to fill out my payment details for a trial version is a a hard no for me

We'd love to embed a demo repo for people to play with, or let users generate nested architecture for one repo before having to subscribe

To generate second layer of architecture diagram, $19/mo subscription with a 7 day free trial. The call graph and top layer of the architecture diagram are free. We'll update our website and the extension with pricing info asap. The subscription didn't exist until a couple of days ago, since layered architecture is a feature that we made public specifically for HN to try.

We only use Anthropic at the moment, but we left OpenAI in the Data & Privacy in case we change models (not in the foreseeable future)

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