
I deployed a Python agent to the cloud in 45 seconds. Here's how.
Last week I built a small Python script that takes a URL and summarizes the page using Claude. Ran it locally, worked great. Then I needed to share it with a colleague who doesn't have Python installed, doesn't know what a virtual environment is, and definitely isn't going to clone a repo. This is a problem I keep running into. You build something useful in 20 minutes, then spend the rest of the afternoon figuring out how to let other people use it. Docker? Overkill for a single script. A Flask app with a frontend? Now you're maintaining two things. Throw it on a VM? Cool, now you're ops. I wanted something simpler: take my Python function, make it available at a URL with a UI that anyone can use. So I built it. The script Here's the actual code. A URL summarizer that lets you pick the output style: import requests from anthropic import Anthropic def run ( url : str , style : str = " bullets " ) -> dict : page = requests . get ( url ). text [: 4000 ] msg = Anthropic (). messages . crea
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