... added spend caps recently, but they're opt-in. I see this from the launch side too. A product goes viral on launch day, the free tier gets hammered, and the founder spends the next week looking at the bill instead of the traffic. Many makers that reach out to me, building with AI have a "wait, how much?" story, and those are fun to tell, but obviously, it's not an ideal situation to be in. Let me know ... ... what you think : Would you rather let your app go down or get a surprise bill

... Where I live (Colombia), a utility bill prints two dates: the due date, and the shut-off date the day they actually disconnect you. Last month the gap on my electricity bill

... working on an app idea and would really value honest feedback. The app helps you stay on top of bills, renewals, subscriptions and important life-admin tasks by turning them into a simple calendar and dashboard. It would work by scanning your emails and photograph any paper bills

... thing I ve been thinking about lately is how teams reconcile Kubernetes cost allocation with their actual cloud bill. Most tools do a great job with cost allocation, but understanding why the final cloud bill

... preparing SunnyBill for a Product Hunt launch and wanted to share it here first for feedback. SunnyBill is a free billing toolkit for freelancers, contractors, and small service businesses. The problem I am trying to solve is simple: a lot of billing

... breaking, and so on. - Vaizle - I work with Vaizle, but it has very easily emerged as my fav platform. Not even lying. I can keep track of ad performance, check what competitors are posting on social. And best part is that I can feed it my own website + competitors

... longest time, our AI cost estimates were embarrassingly wrong. Not because we weren't tracking tokens. We were. We didn't know what we didn't know. The problem that made us build this Six months into production, our bills were consistently 3 4 our estimates. We started digging. Turns out the token price card is the tip of the iceberg: Reasoning models like o3 and DeepSeek R1 generate internal chain-of-thought tokens billed

... Meet Karobar Running a small business shouldn t feel like juggling bills, stock, and calculations all day. Karobar is a simple, powerful app that helps you manage: Billing

... store blurb: Sublime helps you take control of your recurring subscriptions in one beautifully simple app. Track every subscription you're paying for streaming services, software, gym memberships, and more. See exactly what you're spending and when each bill is due. TRACK YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS Add all your subscriptions with cost, billing

... Digital payments are everywhere, yet friction still exists in surprising places. Consumers worry about data theft. Small vendors pay recurring fees for EFTPOS machines. Delivery personnel struggle with inconsistent payment acceptance. Meanwhile, users juggle multiple apps for transfers, bill payments, and card transactions. This Idea Usher review looks at JabaPay , a mobile-first digital payment solution designed for users and businesses in Finland . From a Product Hunt, builder-to-builder perspective, this review evaluates JabaPay not as a marketing story ... ... strategic positioning as a bridge between consumer trust and merchant affordability. What JabaPay Actually Offers JabaPay consolidates multiple financial utilities into one mobile platform: QR-based Scan & Pay Bank-to-bank money transfers Credit/debit card payments Instant bill

... product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product. In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting ... ... cloud wrappers. Comment from Konstantin Tikhaev(@konstantin_tikhaev): real friction with usage pricing is user paying for model mistakes. mid-task agent lost context and rebuilt helper that already existed two files away with new name) when you bill

... Happy New Year, Product Hunt! Over the past few months, I ve been building @INVBot , a simple AI-powered tool for small businesses and shop owners who still rely on handwritten bills and manual records. The problem I kept seeing: Handwritten bills

... everyone! I built Monthly Bill Tracker . A simple and intuitive app to keep track of your bill

... After watching friends and creators build multiple projects with Cursor, Claude, and basically every AI tool I can get my hands on, I've found them with monthly AI bills that look more like car payments than development expenses. That being said, personally, I've been jumping between 10+ different billing

... Product Hunt community! I m excited to share something our team has been working on: Cosmos Home Energy Monitoring . As energy bills get larger and larger, we wanted to give people tools to see where their energy use is actually going. What is Cosmos? Cosmos is a real-time home energy monitoring service designed to give you actionable insights into your electricity consumption with ConEdison. Our system tracks your energy use as it happens, breaking down usage by daily, weekly ... ... peak periods, so you can see exactly where your energy (and money) is going. The goal: give you insights into your usage patterns so you can shift your usage and lower your bills