Skipped the easy money move on this one, here's why

Most no-code agent platforms bundle a model and charge you a markup on every token you use. It's an easy way to make more margin and it means less setup for the user. We didn't do that with BetterClaw.

We went BYOK, so you bring your own API key and use whatever model you want. Honestly it made the build harder. More provider quirks to handle, more support questions about setting up keys, slower onboarding overall.

But almost everyone we spoke to while building already had a model they liked or wanted to test two or three before settling on one. Forcing them into whatever we picked just didn't sit right.

Under the hood it runs on Rust (ZeroClaw), mainly because we wanted agents to handle longer background tasks without choking. Might write that up separately sometime.

Curious how people here think about this. Do you go for the smoothest on boarding possible or do you let people keep control of their own stack even if it costs you some signups along the way.