Elber Bernardino

I ve seen founders spend an hour every Sunday planning their entire week, while others just wake up on Monday and start working.

I m curious which approach actually works better.

Do you plan your week on Sunday or Monday?

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 roadmap turned into a chaotic mess of custom requests from outspoken free users who wanted special integrations. We tried to build everything. That made us delay core stability updates for our paying customers.

We made a rule: no feature request goes onto the main product roadmap unless three different enterprise clients ask for it in one month. All other requests go into a backlog.

Our core application became faster and more stable. Our churn rate fell because our engineering focus matched our real revenue source.

Do not let loud community voices pull your product roadmap into directions that do not serve your paying customer base.