Ismael Oliveira

Lancetta 0.68.0 is out

Every Claude Code and Codex session, in one place: what waits on you, what you finished, and what the agents still keep on disk

I was reading up on API spend limits for a post, and one detail stuck with me.

On Anthropic s standard tiers there s a monthly spend cap ($500 on the lowest). When you hit it, requests come back as a 429 that looks like a rate limit, but with no retry-after header. Automatic retries just keep failing until the 1st. OpenAI s hard spend limits return 429s too.

Run it on an ordinary month: $280 spent by day 10, about $32 a day. That crosses a $500 cap on day 17. The invoice would have said around $920, but the app stops working almost two weeks before anyone opens it.

Do you know which day your app would hit its limit, or do you find out when users start reporting errors?

Our early product videos began with a company introduction and a slow walk through of the software. Viewers left the video within the three seconds before we even showed the core utility.

We changed the structure by opening with the exact problem that our users faced in their daily work. We showed the result on screen right away then we showed the quick fix in the next frame.

Our average watch time. The conversion rates from video views to landing page visits increased a lot. People stay for a video when they see their own pain points solved away.

Start your product videos by showing the frustration that your tool eliminates within the first three seconds.