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Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications

https://www.baseten.co/

Hi HN,

Three months ago, I took a job at Baseten to help craft and document an application builder that lets data scientists build full-stack, production-ready applications around their ML models without worrying about containers, Flask, or React. From my first day, everyone was focused on what would happen today: opening up our public beta. I’m super excited to see what you build with Baseten.

If you want to take Baseten for a full-speed test drive, follow along with this tutorial, where you can build and deploy an application in 20 minutes: https://docs.baseten.co/getting-started

While Baseten is built for data scientists and machine learning engineers, something I’m particularly excited about that doesn’t come up often when we talk about Baseten is how it also makes building with ML available to people like me with a general software engineering background but no real experience with ML. With our library of pre-trained models, you can build and deploy an application around models for tasks like sentiment analysis, image classification, and speech transcription. By building applications around pre-trained models, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the use cases, capabilities, and limitations of machine learning.

If you want to play around with some models and applications without signing up for an account yet, check out our gallery (https://baseten.co/gallery) and try the demo apps.

P.S. We are also hiring; I found Baseten from HN.

( 11 comments | 112 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by tuhins on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:20PM (#31169384)
I’m Tuhin, one of the co-founders of Baseten. Baseten is a realization of the product that we wish we had when we were trying to get value from trained models in previous jobs. I’m excited to see this on HN and will be around to answer any questions you have.
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by bguberfain on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @08:56AM (#31179269)
Can you could give more details regarding the on-premises option?
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by tuhins on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:15AM (#31180144)
We can pretty much deploy anywhere via a helm chart. You can email me (tuhin at baseten dot co) to chat more about it.
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by tomelliot on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:44AM (#31177381)
Looks cool!

Do you support using a different no code front end?

Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by tuhins on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:46AM (#31177394)
yep! it's all modular :) you can call the models, API endpoints from wherever you'd like (retool, streamlit, or your own front-end).
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by d4rkp4ttern on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:14AM (#31178534)
Looks really nice.

Is this suitable for building customer facing SaaS apps, or is it more for “internal” apps?

Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by tuhins on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:45AM (#31178711)
Thank you! We've had customers build both but today, it is purpose-built more for internal use cases.
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by d4rkp4ttern on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:10AM (#31191117)
Thanks. What are the limitations one would run into if using this for a customer facing SaaS app ?
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by philipkiely on Thursday April 28, 2022 @12:19PM (#31194443)
There are no technical limitations in terms of scaling or permissions preventing you from building something customer-facing on Baseten! Personally, I'm very excited for indie hacker types to get their hands on Baseten and start shipping cool things. However, we are currently prioritizing use cases for building internal tools as we build the product.
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by spicym11 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:59AM (#31177475)
this is a really cool idea! will definitely become a successful business internationally.
Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications by randomcatuser on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:56PM (#31242199)
Hm, why do you say that?