I want to build a product from scratch using the OpenAI API. Could you tell me what is the first step?

[sedaefe]

Hello,

I actively use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I’m currently learning React and I have learned how to make API (Axios) requests.

I want to build a very simple product using the OpenAI API. For example, a user writes a question, a response comes from OpenAI, and the answer is displayed on the screen.

What should the most basic and correct architecture be?

Thank you in advance to everyone who replies

[_j]

I invite you to first read my own getting started - that focuses on the payment and organization account part of the API.

FAQ: Getting started with the OpenAI API: Quickstart, billing, verification, prepayment, credits, '429' errors

The Quickstart before OpenAI’s Quickstart Welcome to the OpenAI Developer Community, a site for connecting with fellow AI enthusiasts and consumers of API-based AI products. You are probably not here as your first stop in learning or for pre-sales questions, but instead, you might have found the developer site only after encountering challenges in getting started on the API. I mean to collect and clarify all the information you’d want to know about the API… the preface that should come before e…

Then for using the API once you are set up:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/quickstart

[merefield]

You want to use something like PHP, Deno (Typescript) or Ruby on Rails for this (personally prefer latter) and running on a server in the cloud on a domain you control.

For a variety of reasons and partly because you need to keep your keys private.

To deploy a website on your own domain means learning a lot but persevere - it’s worth the journey. And you have AI now to help you!