Straico

This will be the first 1-taco review I think I’ve written on AppSumo. Simply put, Straico is impractical to use as an LTD as it consumes way too many coins. So much so, that you’ll think it’s a glitch until you take the issue up with the founders and they confirm that it’s to be expected, making excuses and outright lying about the average number of LLM word outputs to shift the blame. I ran 4 models side-by-side, DeepSeekV3, ChatGPT4o-mini, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Open AI o1. I asked them translate 108 words. Only one model managed to perform the task (Claude); the others simply spat back short text asking me to share the text for translation. It consumed 8,000 coins. For 108 words… Looking at the other reviews, I’m not the only one with these sentiments but the common thread with the replies appears to be founder’s hubris hiding behind excuses and palming the blame off to the user. It is impractical to expect the tool to do what it says on the box if you ask it to output a simple translation and it spits back 108 words while eating 8,000 coins! Don’t try and go to the team about it—they’ll blame you and lie about LLMs outputting only a maximum of 800 words (like that would be relevant to the problem even if it were true). Don’t expect Straico’s main features to be useful for LLM chat unless you have millions of coins. I enjoyed refunding this.