Opus 5.5 Is JUST the Beginning. Everything Is About to Change.
Riley Brown shows how Claude Opus 5.5 makes building custom software faster and cheaper than paying for SaaS tools, and covers what to expect from OpenAI's upcoming Dev Day.
The gist
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Opus 5.5 lets you build a working custom app in hours, which can replace multiple SaaS subscriptions you barely use.
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Brown built a hybrid note-taking and publishing app in a few hours that replaced three separate paid tools.
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Brown expects a $500 per month premium AI tier from OpenAI and competitors as frontier models get faster but more expensive per token.
Riley Brown uses it
"After 5 days of using this new model, the only way I can describe Claude Opus 5.5 is that with it, I glide. It's very fast, it's very cheap, and I fully trust this model. I have not given it one single feature request where it failed."
▶ Play at 0:31253 creators recommend it, including Chris Koerner, This Week in Startups, and Peter Yang.
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Riley Brown uses it
"I'm using Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. I can go to Claude Code and say, 'Hey, I have a new idea for a video — add it to NativeNote.' Claude Code can write to that database directly. My agent can fully use the same software that I can use."
▶ Play at 0:45110 creators recommend it, including Liam Ottley, Claire Vo, and Peter Yang.
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"After 5 days of using this new model, the only way I can describe Claude Opus 5.5 is that with it, I glide. It's very fast, it's very cheap, and I fully trust this model. I have..."
"I'm using Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. I can go to Claude Code and say, 'Hey, I have a new idea for a video — add it to NativeNote.' Claude Code can write to that database directly...."
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