... skipped the wallet/token pricing model everyone recommends for AI apps. Went with a flat subscription instead: free roast to hook people, paywall on depth (history, category comparisons). The token model mostly exists to shift unpredictable cost risk onto the user; our per-user cost is low enough that we don't have that problem, so it felt like solving a risk we don't actually carry. Also just wired up real per-user cost tracking (Helicone) instead of eyeballing ... ... Curious how many of you actually know your margin per customer vs

... tokens or wallet credits so they don't get crushed by API costs. If your backend usage per user is super cheap though sticking to a regular monthly plan removes so much friction during checkout. If you went with flat subscription instead of token billing did it hurt your margins or did conversion make ...

... right and is more useful than either, and the revised version went up this month, so it's worth twenty minutes before you write your Q4 plan. It's NBER working paper 35275, Demirer, Musolff and Yang - "Writing Code vs. Shipping Code." More than 500,000 GitHub developers, matched against their actual AI usage telemetry rather than a survey, in a matched event study design. The headline numbers are large and I have no interest in arguing with them. Cumulative ... ... give up the tools for $50 an hour. That tells you something the 19% never did. The exercise. Open your own release history for the last six months, not your commit history. If commits are up and releases are flat

... answers every DM from your own knowledge base (like your Shopify store info) in your brand's voice. Speaks your audience's language. Replies in 100+ languages, including the mixed ones people actually type, like Hinglish, Tanglish, and Spanglish. Flat pricing. Free forever to start, or one flat

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... last week. So did 0.2.0, and 1.6.1, and every other version I have ever published, all sitting between 150 and 200. Nobody deliberately installs the first release of anything. A real user base concentrates almost entirely on latest. A flat line across every version that has ever existed is mirrors and scanners walking the registry, and they do that to every package, forever, whether or not one person wants your code. So here is the check. It takes about ... ... minutes. Split your downloads by version. Flat

... drops. The first render feels free. The third one has a price tag on it. People stop long before the balance hits zero, and that shows up in your dashboard as low usage, never as a complaint about cost. Flat seats have the opposite failure. Your heaviest users cost you real money and you can't see them coming. So most of us bolt credits onto a seat and ship both problems at once. The part I haven't solved ... ... number for a concrete one that turns out to be wrong. That's a harder engineering problem than the credit display, which is probably why most tools ship the credits. Comment from Asad M.(@asadmalik901): @siarheihamanovich  The 5x versus

... switched LYQN from flat monthly pricing to pure pay as you go. Here's why Hey everyone Quick story on why we ripped out our pricing and started over. We used to charge a flat

... Codirity, an AI and automation agency I set up as a subscription instead of a normal agency: one flat monthly rate, requests pile up in a queue, one task active at a time, pause or cancel whenever. The bet is that scope negotiation is the thing people actually hate about agencies, not the price. So there is no meter. No estimates, no change orders, no proposal for every new request. You keep adding to the queue and we ship things ...

... almost certainly cannot see it. Your analytics tool reports engagement per user. Your model provider reports one number at the end of the month with no user attached to it. Nobody joins those two tables for you. So the flat $20 subscription keeps looking fine right up until the composition of your user base shifts. Which brings me to the thing I'd push back on hardest, because it's the answer I hear whenever this comes up: costs ... ... market is quietly repricing around this. Metronome's 2026 survey has 64% of SaaS companies billing at least partly by usage, up from 39% in 2024. A poll of 230 B2B software and AI companies found hybrid pricing flat

... model living in the same model picker, which ran all six answer files itself. Humans did exactly one job in this pipeline: invigilation. Final score:  90 to 70. The winner also used 15% fewer output tokens (11,702 vs 13,799).  If you don't trust an AI's grading all six raw answer files are attached below, unedited, and the code runs on click. Grade them yourself. See you in the comments. EXAM NOTICE Grok 4.6 moved ... ... That is chaos, and it is why no weather forecast survives two weeks. Candidates must bring this butterfly to life on screen. Q IIWhy the butterfly flaps its wings(Lorenz attractor 30 pts) Turn a needle around inside a flat

... whether you're funding a dead end. The rule I've landed on: I stop looking at the final number and look at whether any part of the funnel is improving. If the top is growing but conversion is flat, it's a targeting problem and worth fixing. If nothing is moving anywhere after a fair run, more time won't change it. Volume alone has never rescued a channel for me. That's held ...

... been building ProductBridge as an AI-native alternative to traditional customer-feedback tools. But we don t want polite founder feedback. We want to understand what would genuinely make a team abandon its existing feedback platform and move somewhere else. Would it be: Predictable pricing without tracked-user limits? One-click migration of existing posts, votes and users? AI that collects feedback from Slack, Intercom, Zendesk, app-store reviews and other channels? Automatic duplicate detection and merging? Feedback, roadmap, changelog ... ... convincing an entire team to learn another tool. So I m curious: What would need to be true for you to move away from your current customer-feedback platform? And what would stop you from switching even if the alternative

... When we set up credits, one credit meant one generation. Easy to explain, and wrong. A generation isn't one thing. The same request routed to a cheap model versus an expensive one can differ by an order of magnitude in what it actually costs us, and a retry after a bad output costs full price again. So a flat

... tell which. If I'm the one starting a thread, put a real number in the first line. A thread with a concrete number in it has pulled more replies for me than the same idea asked as a flat question, consistently enough that I don't bother with the flat

... going back and forth, that is engagement, not compounding. The one thread that kept going had someone unconnected join inside 48 hours, and that window is also roughly when the other three had already gone flat. Curious if anyone else tracks this specifically, or if there is an earlier signal worth watching for before the third person even shows up. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @jernej_jan_kocica  It reads as rigging only because "deliberately" makes the reason ... ... Elliott Reed before Liam Cai or Jernej showed up, so in this one your mechanism holds over mine, the third person window looks downstream of the concession, not the trigger itself. On the open contradiction, it's the position versus

... Google AI Overviews (2) Neither number happened instead of the other. Same audit, same content, same backlinks, same monthly review, read two ways. The part that actually surprised us For almost three months, nothing happened. Both lines were flat, traffic and citations. Every piece of the puzzle was going in, technical fixes, content, backlinks, and the graphs just sat there. Then, right around month four, they both broke upward at the same time. That flat

... shipped the whole thing in a weekend because Cursor and Claude Code let one person out-build a small 2020 dev team. And then... nothing. A trickle of signups from your own timeline, and then the graph goes flat. If that's where you are, I want to be clear about something: it's not that your product is bad. It's that "it's live" and "people use it" are two completely different problems, and in 2026 they ... ... this: if building is no longer the moat, then the moat is available to anyone willing to do the unglamorous work. Knowing your person. Owning a relationship instead of renting attention. Being early to a workflow before a competitor

... bookkeeping is that the bookkeeping isn't the hard part, getting clients to send their stuff is. Bank statements, that one loan agreement, receipts by text, "what was this 340?". Bookkeepers lose hours every week chasing, and clients flat-out refuse to log into yet another portal. What I built: FetchLedger.co.uk . You set up each client's document checklist once (month end, VAT quarter, year end, MTD). They get a simple link no login, works on their phone ... ... politely auto-chases until everything's in, then stops. One red/amber/green dashboard across every client. Flat

... instantly. That s why we built FehrWatch and we did it in just 6 weeks with zero bloated overhead. On August 15th, our new platform officially goes live, and our Smartphone-Wipe feature will be fully included in our flat monthly subscription! No per-device licensing nonsense: Wipe as many devices as you need. No spreadsheet chaos: Just upload your CSV/XLSX lists. Automated validation: Our built-in traffic-light system flags anomalies instantly. We built this out of pure, clean ...

... routing, and the ways AI products fail quietly. No DMs asking for support, because I do not want the kind of number that produces. And I will post follower count and KP in this thread every week, including the flat weeks. What I want from people who have done this more than once: what actually moved between your first launch and your best one? I am deliberately not asking about the product. I mean the distribution side. Was it followers ... ... threads have pulled more follows between them than every reply I've left combined. Drop your link Sunday and I'll read it properly, and I'd like to know your follower count the night before versus

... update after that. Live data is something we're planning next, but it's not there yet, so right now, "as of when I shared this" is the accurate framing. Your first point is the sharper one honestly. A flat line and a range that just ended look identical to someone who wasn't in the room for the prompt, and that ambiguity is on us, not on the reader. The honest fix is that the artifact itself needs ... ... great convenience. The hard part is that the moment it leaves the room, it's detached from the two things that make a number mean anything: the question it answered and the definition it was computed from. "Revenue is flat

... click Clean Up Take, hardware that shows up in the pickers the moment you plug it in, and proper support for recording full-screen windows (no more offset cursors or mystery black bars). Long exports got sturdier too, with flat memory at 4K60 and a steady time-remaining countdown. Highlights: - Zooms frame the real UI element you clicked or typed in, not a point under the cursor - Text selections hold as one calm shot, menus frame as menus, and scrolling ... ... under your voice, plus one-click Clean Up Take - Mics, cameras, and monitors appear in the pickers the moment you plug them in - Full-screen window recordings fixed: no more offset cursors or mystery black bars - Sturdier long exports: flat

... polished, professional trailer template instantly. No prompt engineering, no weird melting pixels, and no massive token bills. Because I know how many of us are serial builders who launch multiple projects a year, I m structuring it as a flat monthly subscription. You pay one fee, and you can pump out clean trailers for whatever you're launching that month. We are currently building out the initial template library and running a private waitlist. I d love to get your ...

... format and ship a simple growth campaign. The tool fatigue was killing my velocity. To solve it, I built MO Labs a super minimal workspace designed to turn raw strategy into live distribution assets in under 2 minutes flat. It includes The Clarity Engine (for turning messy mobile ideas into structured workflows) and a LinkedIn Content Engine (for fast, high-signal formatting). I just launched it on Gumroad. The views are coming in, but sales are flat