[bradly]

Great job. I think this is a great area to focus on.

I am a solo developer who after trying to run local llm models for code and not being satisfied with the results is back to copy/pasting from browser tabs. I use vim so getting llm/lsp integration working reliably has felt questionable and not something I enjoying tinkering with. I tried aider with Google's Geminis models, but I never got the IAM accounts, billing quotas, and acls properly configured to get things to just work. I thought it would be fairly straight forward to build a local model based on my Gemfile, codebase, whatever else and have a local llm be both a better and cheaper experience than claude code which I blew threw $5 results that weren't usable or didn't save time after.

The sign up experience was really smooth. Like anything it else, is so easy to over complicate or be too clever, so I commend you for having the discipline to get it straight forward and to the point.

After account verification I didn't feel I understood what to do when landing on the Add Code Playground experience. It took me a while to grok what the three editors were doing and why there was JavaScript on the left and python on the right, but with an option for JavaScript. I found https://docs.relace.ai/docs/instant-apply/quickstart in the docs and at myself would be a better place to land after signup. I'd even recommend having the tabs on those snippets to be able to just grab a curl command and tip my toe in.

I think my biggest miss was my own assumption that a custom model was going to be a local model. Not that it was represented that way, but my brain was lumping those things together prematurely.

[eborgnia]

Hey, really appreciate the detailed sign up journey here! Getting the simplest flow is hard, and it's something we obsess over. The docs have been a work in progress for the past couple of months, but now that they are getting better I think it's a good idea to make them more front and center for new users.

We are trying to make this as accessible as possible to the open-source community, with our free tier, but feel free to reach out if you need expanded rate limits. Cheers :)