Forget Claude Code: DeepSeek + REA Clones Anything 100% FREE (No Paid API)
Clip title: Forget Claude Code: DeepSeek + REA Clones Anything 100% FREE (No Paid API) Author / channel: Maitis URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KscFyux4dVk
Summary
Here’s a summary of the video content:
The video presented by Maitis introduces a free workflow using DeepSeek Harness, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), and OpenRouter to build functional app clones without writing code or paying for expensive AI subscriptions. The speaker demonstrates this setup by recreating working versions of Slack and ChatGPT entirely from plain-English prompts.
The workflow is broken down into three key levels:
- Setup: Installing and configuring DeepSeek Harness as the AI developer.
- Connection: Linking OpenRouter to access free AI models and REA to analyze existing app structures.
- Building: Using detailed prompts to direct the AI tools to generate fully functional app interfaces and features.
The video concludes that users can leverage this combination of free AI tools and reverse-engineering capabilities to prototype and build functional applications without requiring technical coding skills or paid software licenses.
Video Description & Links
Description
The Maitis page includes the complete setup steps, the REA test prompt, and the full Slack and ChatGPT clone prompts, so you can copy everything and try it yourself.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 02:30 Set Up DeepSeek Harness 04:33 Install REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) 21:22 Final Results
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ COMMANDS USED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Set up REA for DeepSeek Harness npx rea-agents@latest setup —client dsh
▸ Check that everything is connected npx rea-agents doctor
▸ OpenRouter Base URL https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
▸ OpenRouter preset ID
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 OFFICIAL LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DeepSeek Harness: https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness DeepSeek Platform: https://platform.deepseek.com REA (GitHub): https://github.com/morluto/rea OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai OpenRouter Presets: https://openrouter.ai/settings/presets
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ USE RESPONSIBLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Only reverse engineer software you own or are authorized to examine, and check the laws and terms that apply to you. Don’t copy another company’s name, branding or protected assets. The apps in this video are local demos with sample data, not full replacements for Slack or ChatGPT.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Which app would you build first? Tell us in the comments.
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