... make our mid-tier plan appealing we included generous usage limits thinking people would upgrade once they felt the value. Instead power users optimized their workflow just to stay right under the threshold. Once we switched to feature gated tiers instead of usage

... everyone, Atta here. I make Vitals, an Activity Monitor alternative for Mac. Here is what s changed in the last few updates: Docker: CPU and disk usage

... everything. I'm sure you too. My biggest pain with it? Not knowing when I'll hit the 5-hour window limit. Turns out, you can use Claude, to update Claude's UI and show you your current usage. And you don't really need to code anything, it's purely vibe coding. Here's how to: Go to Claude Code Paste this prompt (or use the full one from the screenshot): "Using the plugin-authoring skill, make ... ... called "usage

... thing nobody really prepares you for when building with AI is how much your workflow depends on usage limits. You re deep into a problem. You ve finally figured out what s wrong. Your AI assistant understands the context, you re making progress, and then You ve reached your usage

... founder and I love how fast we can ship using OpenAI endpoints, but the unpredictable monthly bill is forcing us to cap feature usage. It feels terrible having to limit user experiments just to keep costs under control. We're tempted to switch to self-hosted open-source models for predictable hardware costs but taking on server maintenance and potential drops in output quality gives us pause. Did moving away from paid AI APIs help your team ship faster ... ... office with Ollama. There's no cloud server to look after, so the devops side is close to nothing. Coding stays on Claude Code, but on a flat monthly plan, so that cost doesn't grow with usage

... saidev, 20, solo dev from india. the problem: i pay for claude code, codex AND cursor. still, every few hours one of them hits its usage limit right in the middle of a task. then it's open another terminal, re-explain everything to the next agent, lose all the context. felt dumb paying for 3 plans and still getting blocked. so i built codemax. one terminal, all your AI coding agents running side by side (claude code, codex, opencode ...

... When we hit our first 1,000 signups, we popped champagne. Everyone was celebrating top-of-funnel growth. But weekly active usage was practically flat. Digging into the analytics, we realized we were optimizing for the wrong metric. Vanity signups feel amazing on a dashboard, but zero active engagement means your core loop is broken. Do you focus entirely on fixing retention before pouring fuel on acquisition or try to balance both at the same time ...

... claude.ai is the page I have open more than any other. But it's plain, and I kept tabbing out to check my usage, change music, or open a feed. So I made Perchside, a Chrome extension that turns claude.ai into a workspace. Everything runs locally, with no ads and no data sent anywhere. Link: https://chromewebstore.google.co... Right inside claude.ai : usage

... GitHub developers against their actual AI telemetry. The task-level gains are enormous and they mostly don't survive the trip to a shipped release. Across four app marketplaces: a sharp rise in new apps, no rise in total usage. Most of the AI-productivity argument you've read this year is two camps shouting single numbers at each other. There's a paper out that makes both camps 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

... What's your approach - from both the technical and business sides? I'd love to hear how other makers have solved this. Comment from Jake Moshel(@jake_moshel): agree its super hard - ive found a hybrid model for subscription + usage can be very effective Comment from Jake Moshel(@jake_moshel): @adana  yes tokens Comment from Aruna Sahoo(@aruna_polosofttech): @adana  Thanks a ton for the suggestion. Would request for suggestions from others makers also Comment from Aruna Sahoo ... ... that into SaaS-style plans is hard, because unlike storage or AI tokens , there isn't an obvious "unit" to charge by . We've been weighing a few options: number of devices/systems covered, how often testing happens (one-time vs

... everyone Like a lot of you, I use AI coding agents (Claude Code / Codex) daily, and token usage adds up fast especially on large codebases where the agent burns context just orienting itself. I contribute to OpenObserve (open-source observability platform, large Rust + Vue codebase), and here's what's actually moved the needle for me: CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md files a short project map (architecture, conventions, key file paths) so the agent doesn't re-explore the repo every session. Biggest ...

... While building LangSwap, I kept the financial rule deliberately simple: reserve the worst-case provider cost before execution, settle the actual returned usage, refund the unused reserve, and refuse the call before upstream spend when the balance is insufficient. The difficult parts are not the checkout button. They are retry-safe meter events, signed and idempotent webhooks, reconciliation, failed-request releases, explainable ledgers and preventing a pricing rule from turning heavy usage

... built CodeBurn because we kept running into the same problem. We run Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi across a few projects, and at some point the usage gets high enough that we want to know what caused it. And that's where things get frustrating. A typical day looks something like: Work normally across a few projects Switch between models and tools depending on the task Hit a usage

... injected into your agent's responses. No throttling free users to make paid feel faster. No markup on your model costs (BYOK means your tokens go to your provider directly, we make $0 on your API usage). No gating basic features behind paywalls. free gets unlimited chat, smart context management, verified skills, Telegram, Slack. Same features as paid, just with usage

... Over the past few months, I've noticed that my building habits have changed. When I first started using AI development tools, I would experiment freely, iterate often, and explore different ideas. Now, I find myself thinking about credit usage before I send a prompt or try another approach. Instead of asking, "Is this the best solution?" , I sometimes catch myself asking, "Is this worth spending credits on?" I'm curious if other builders have experienced something similar ... ... usage

... page is what happens when you actually use the tool heavily . The advertised price and the real price diverge fast. The entry tiers look deceptively similar. Cursor Pro and Claude Code's entry tier both sit around $20/month, with usage-based costs layered on top, so on paper they look like a fair fight. But that's the price for light use, not the price that matters once you're running agentic multi-file tasks daily. Heavy users all converge ... ... same number, just from different directions. The top individual tier for Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf all land at or near $200/month once you actually need the higher usage

... Been meaning to do this properly instead of just going off gut feeling every time my usage bar turns orange. Pulled together what I could find from benchmarks and my own week of switching between tools, and a few things genuinely surprised me. The efficiency numbers aren't close, and not in the direction I expected. One widely cited test had Claude Code completing an identical multi-file feature task using around 33,000 tokens with zero errors , while Cursor ...

... Yesterday (July 21) I was at around 10% usage, and it said my limit would reset on July 25. Then a few hours later, around 00:11 on July 22, I checked again and somehow my usage

... about something nobody in the proxy industry likes to discuss: how easy it is to blow your budget on proxies without even realizing it. We've been there. Early on, our proxy bill was growing faster than our actual usage, and we couldn't figure out why. After auditing everything and making some changes, we cut costs by roughly 40% while keeping success rates steady. Here's what actually worked: 1. Pick the right pricing model for your usage

... higher than what companies currently charge, depending on model size, context length, and infrastructure load. So the market is not really stable yet. It s still in a growth phase, supported by subsidized pricing and scale. And usage is already massive. Most of you probably saw this report: Meta employees reportedly consumed 73.7 trillion AI tokens in a single month , which is estimated to be around $221M per month (~$2.65B per year) in compute cost. That s just ... ... company. Now multiply this across the industry. Even with cheap tokens today, total consumption is already reaching extreme levels. The issue is not only pricing, it s how fast usage

... each one does and when you'd actually use it. 1. Find and Browse Your Brands List all brands   Pulls a full list of your brands with client name and share link for each. Useful when compiling a usage report or checking which clients have active brand links across your library. Search by name   The most common starting point. Say "use the Acme brand" and the agent finds it by name, no ID needed. It handles partial names ... ... counts for any brand and each of its variations. Useful for quarterly brand reviews, client reports, or understanding which logo version is used most. If a variation has had zero downloads in six months, that's worth knowing. Account usage

... Starting June 1st, @Github Copilot moved to a usage-based billing model. Question for engineering leaders after this change: What's your team actually doing about it? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): curious what are your preferred models? @MiniMax ? @Qwen ? else? Comment from Igor I(@igor_i): @fmerian   Glm and qwen but models are less relevant read my article here https://productics.substack.com/... Comment from Igor I(@igor_i): Canceled plan, using china models for a while. Comment from Zhen ... ... zhen_han): It s a subpar product anyways Comment from Francis Irele(@francis_irele): Most people here are looking at this through a developer cost lens, but the shift is bigger than that. Usage

... tools without which i can't function 1. WorkElate - my end to end office suite ( alternative of MS Office / G-Suite ) all AI native 2. Perplexity - for deep research and learning 3. Claude - for product development and marketing 4. Wisperflow - for ease of typing 5. Product Hunt :) @busmark_w_nika and @product Comment from farrukhhafeez(@farrukhhafeez): Nice list! Mine would be ChatGPT, VS

... live on Product Hunt today with the new Intrascope update. Intrascope started as a BYOK workspace for teams using multiple AI models. Now we re adding managed AI usage as well, so companies can access top AI models without managing separate API keys, vendor accounts or billing dashboards. The goal is simple: Help teams use AI in a more organized way, with permissions, spending limits, usage

... simpler. They want to use AI across the company, but they don t want to manage: API keys Provider accounts Separate billing dashboards Model setup Individual AI subscriptions Scattered chats and lost context So we re adding managed AI usage to Intrascope. With this update, teams will be able to top up their workspace and use premium AI models directly through Intrascope , without setting up their own API keys . The goal is simple: Make AI easier to adopt ... ... range of teams, not only those already familiar with APIs. We re preparing a new Product Hunt launch around this update soon, and I d love to hear your thoughts before we go live. Do you think managed AI usage