Jeremy Loomis

My Downloads folder has slowly turned into a mix of PDFs screenshots installers and random files I only needed once. I keep meaning to clean it up but doing it manually every few days gets annoying. I d rather not pay for another cleanup app just for this. Are you using any built-in rules shortcuts or simple folder setup to automatically deal with old files?

One of my young and enthusiastic maker followers recently asked me for advice on finding alpha testers.

And honestly I realized I m not the best person to answer this one =D

We built RunEvr inside an animation studio, so our team of artists naturally became our first alpha testers.
We had a real product, a real team, and a real workflow to test it on from day one.

So I couldn t really give advice based on my own experience.

Adding AI features to indie products often brings unexpected API cost spikes. I ve been testing user-level rate limits, token quotas and cached responses to keep spending predictable.

I m curious to hear practical approaches from other builders:

1. Do you enforce hard monthly caps for every user?

2. What fallback workflows do you offer once AI quotas are exhausted?

3. Which caching strategies work best for repeated AI requests?

Many generic guides skip these operational details, so real production experience would be really helpful.