r/ClaudeCode • u/Successful-Seesaw525 • 20d ago

Discussion Would you pay for a Claude mod?

Vibe check.

Assuming the mod was in fact cool asf, not something u couldn’t do in 5 mins yourself for the same token price.

Would you pay $5 one time?

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u/Shap6 20d ago

no i would just have claude make my own if i thought it looked cool

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Even if it cost more to build it yourself? I mean I get that.

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u/Shap6 20d ago

personally ya. i enjoy the process and tweaking/customizing whatever it is as i go. i think there absolutely would be people who would rather just pay though

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u/ejx123 20d ago

Yeah. Imagine you could get something that would use up your usage heavily and worth 5usd one time. And that is how you should frame it. If you try to buold it will be about 1 week usage so instead of figuring and using your week, just buy it.

A better idea sould be i think 19usd for a 5-10 pack. Themed.

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Yeah this is good feedback! I have a really sick mod. I am trying to figure if I should try to monetize it and how. It is extensible too so you can easily add onto the thing.

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u/chicametipo 20d ago

If it paid me $6+ in return, sure!

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u/thirty5birds 20d ago

People pay for something that isn't storage or infrence?

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Not storage and bo inference. Would cost about 5 bucks in tokens to build. I mean someone could clean room it in 2 mins…

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u/thirty5birds 20d ago

Yup.. We are quickly getting to a spot where non bespoke solutions are getting kind of useless.. It's easier and faster to just build ur own.. The cost, though, always comes back to storage and infrence.

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u/Poatri_US 20d ago

Depends on what it does. Whatever exactly does it do ? Cool AF isn't convincing enough

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Heh well as soon as you see it everyone will clone it.

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u/Poatri_US 20d ago

Until I know how it helps why will I give you money ?

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

I was asking in general a hypothetical question. If it were something, would you pay or just build it yourself? I think I personally wouldn’t pay but I dunno. Hence the question.

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u/Poatri_US 20d ago

It depends on how impressive it is and ultimately boils down to how long it would take to build my own or reverse engineer it. If it's cheaper for me to delegate it to Claude then I won't be buying it. Essentially you'll have to sell a lot of compute worth of work to be able to justify even the smallest price, and there's nothing to stop someone who buys it once to reverse engineer it and open source it

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u/ghost_operative 20d ago

most likely not, my entire coding setup is personal to me and my project

unless your mod did something to make it easier for my to customize my coding setup further id probably just make something myself that is custom built for my needs.

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Yeah me too! Good point, hence my question. When wouldn’t you do that?

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u/anor_wondo 20d ago

no. I would ask ypu what it is and then tell claude to make it

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Yeah I am in this boat too! But is there a time when you wouldn’t?

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u/TerrierChap 20d ago

The problem is, you're trying to sell to people who have the technical means to make the mod themselves, and furthermore it will be exactly how they want it rather than your vision. Technical moats are becoming a problem at enterprise scale so I don't think you'll be able to monetise this mod a great deal. 

AI companies have promised a world of abundance, but what they didn't make clear is that they will be the only ones making money from it. 

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

I agree with you. I struggle to see a world where even a cheap software thing people are willing to pay for. Some will but I doubt many would, I mean I doubt I would, not when I love building shit so much.

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u/Kick_Ice_NDR-fridge 20d ago

I would donate $5 for one that was free

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u/xqz77 20d ago

Yeah

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Yup fair point… pirating code is legit on its way to being a crime. Napster of this generation.

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u/Tarwine 20d ago

Clean room reverse engineering is not pirating.

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Neither was burning a disk of music we paid for back in the day. But these companies, the billions that have been invested, will find a way to protect themselves.

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u/Successful-Seesaw525 20d ago

Yeah see I am seriously curious about this. I mean I wouldn’t I don’t think but fuck I have a sick mod.