See the platform we will build

What you will do in this lesson: describe what a user goes through, from signing up to buying credits and running two tools from the same wallet.

Picture your customer writing an ad, an article and a product description from one account. They do not open three websites or sign up for three services.

That is what you are building: one platform with many tools, all sharing one account and one credit balance.

Five screens the user moves through

What you see in this lesson is an illustrative model of the target, and you will build each part in its own module. The model has five screens:

• Catalog: the available tools, each with its cost in credits.
• Form: the fields the user fills in for one tool.
• Result: what the tool produced, saved in the user’s account.
• Wallet: the available balance and the packs on sale.
• Log: every request, and every credit movement tied to it.

When you show your idea to anyone before it is built, call it an illustrative model, not a finished product.

Follow two requests from one account

The first request goes to the hook generator: the user enters the product, the audience and the platform, and gets five opening lines. The second goes to the product description writer: the user enters the product name and specs, and gets a short and a long description.

What changes between the two is the tool: its fields, its instructions, the shape of its result and its price. In the course examples, the hook generator costs 1 credit and the product description costs 2.

What stays the same is identity and the wallet: the same account, the same balance, the same rules for reserving and charging. That is why you build the shared system once and add tools on top of it.

The limits of the first version

The first version works with text only, and only with inputs the user provides. It does not generate images, browse the web or publish anything automatically.

Each of those abilities adds cost, risk and new rules. Web browsing makes the result depend on sources you do not control. Automatic publishing puts a mistake in front of an audience before anyone has reviewed it.

Clear limits let you measure quality and cost on something you understand, before you expand.

Watch out

• This is one multi-tool platform, not fifty websites.
• The product’s value is cutting down a professional task, with quality the user can check.
• Do not promise customers profits, search rankings or guaranteed ad results.

Your turn

Draw the user’s path in six steps, starting at sign-up and ending with the second tool running from the same balance. Mark every step where the cost of usage shows up.

You are done when

You can explain why a long tool takes more credits than a short one, without mixing up credits and model tokens.

Credits are the unit the user buys and sees in the wallet. Tokens are the units of text the model provider bills you for. In the course examples the educational article costs 8 credits and the hook generator costs 1.

Your explanation should connect the length of the task, what it costs you at the provider, and the price you show the user.