I’ve built multiple apps just for myself using the API and honestly it sucked. The chat remembers context and talks to you like a real conversation. The API is crazy expensive and painfully slow. It’s best for one-shot queries where you ask one thing and expect nearly identical results every time. Anything beyond that and it struggles.
With ChatGPT Canvas I’ve completed small projects like WordPress plugins, handy personal Python scripts, chrome extensions (my favorite use of ChatGPT) and most importantly debugged faster than any tool I’ve ever used. Sure, my customer-facing GPT API apps are burning credits like a rocket on full throttle but at least I’m billing them for it. The API speed is wildly inconsistent so you can’t rely on it for everything.
One key tip is you can’t keep a single chat going forever. It gets sluggish, especially when you paste long code blocks. My method is simple. I ask for the final clean code, then request a complete detailed summary of what we built and what the functions do. Then I start a fresh chat, paste the summary and code, and continue clean. Think of it like making a commit, just a very crude version.
With ChatGPT Canvas I’ve completed small projects like WordPress plugins, handy personal Python scripts, chrome extensions (my favorite use of ChatGPT) and most importantly debugged faster than any tool I’ve ever used. Sure, my customer-facing GPT API apps are burning credits like a rocket on full throttle but at least I’m billing them for it. The API speed is wildly inconsistent so you can’t rely on it for everything.
One key tip is you can’t keep a single chat going forever. It gets sluggish, especially when you paste long code blocks. My method is simple. I ask for the final clean code, then request a complete detailed summary of what we built and what the functions do. Then I start a fresh chat, paste the summary and code, and continue clean. Think of it like making a commit, just a very crude version.