I Spent $847 on AI APIs Last Year. Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me...
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I Spent $847 on AI APIs Last Year. Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started A few months back I was sitting in a coffee shop in Austin, staring at my OpenAI bill. $612 for the month. For a "small" SaaS I'd been building. I almost closed the whole thing down. That's when I went down a pretty deep rabbit hole — testing every AI API provider I could get my hands on, talking to other indie hackers, and eventually landing on a setup that cut my costs by like 80% without sacrificing…
1Key Takeaways
- Here's What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started A few months back I was sitting in a coffee shop in Austin, staring at my OpenAI bill.
- For a "small" SaaS I'd been building.
- I almost closed the whole thing down.
- That's when I went down a pretty deep rabbit hole — testing every AI API provider I could get my hands on, talking to other indie hackers, and eventually landing on a setup that cut my costs by like 80% without sacrificing….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that here's What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started A few months back I was sitting in a coffee shop in Austin, staring at my OpenAI bill.
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