What Coze and Dify-Type Products Are Worth

Originally published in Chinese on January 28, 2024. Where the value lies: platform services and positioning Coze, ByteDance's bot-building platform, and Dify, an open-source platform for building LLM apps, are the two products I look at here. Lowering the barrier to connecting apps, with centralized services The first point is that they lower the barrier to connecting apps across platforms, packaging all kinds of services into one platform. It works a bit like a parts center: the platform has all the parts ready and you come and assemble them yourself, like Lego. A centralized platform is relatively friendly to developers. It cuts the cost of migrating data and adjusting apps between platforms, and does part of what an API itself should do. It is an API for APIs.