Create and Share Web Apps with Quora’s Poe: New User-Friendly Features!

Poe, Quora's subscription-based cross-platform aggregator for AI-driven chatbots such as Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has introduced a new feature called Previews. This innovative tool enables users to create interactive applications directly within chatbot conversations.

With Previews, Poe users can design data visualizations, games, and even virtual drum machines. By simply typing prompts like, "Analyze the information in this report and present it in an interactive format," users can transform complex data into engaging presentations. The feature supports collaboration across multiple chatbots, allowing users to combine insights from models like Meta's Llama 3 and GPT-4o, and it can utilize information from uploaded files, including videos, which can be shared via a simple link.

Previews shares similarities with Anthropic’s recently launched Artifacts, which provides dedicated workspaces for users to modify AI-generated content such as code and documents. However, while Artifacts is limited to Anthropic’s models, Previews supports HTML output with CSS and JavaScript functionality—features that Quora promises will expand in the future.

Quora highlights that Previews works optimally with chatbots that excel in programming tasks, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro. Although I was unable to personally test the app creation with Previews—due to the $20 monthly subscription fee for Poe’s premium plan—the available demos, while basic and developed by Poe's team, function largely as promised.

The rollout of Previews comes at a controversial moment for Poe, as a recent Wired investigation revealed that Poe had allowed users to download paywalled articles from various news outlets. According to Wired, it was able to access articles from prominent publications like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Quora’s Assistant chatbot. Quora has disputed these claims and maintains that it has acted appropriately.