Well, I'm saying I'm happy to not be involved in the resale token trade in general. I don't think enterprises are the only folks with API keys. There are a lot of people who might not be savvy or motivated enough to setup an API key with Anthropic, OpenAI or Vertex and in those cases we want them to be able to use our key to reduce user friction.

It's not in our interest to resell tokens, it actually diminishes our margin but it's a must if you want to be accessible to folks who don't want to go sign up for an API key. We choose to delay launching by a couple of days so that people could bring their own keys because we don't want to be middle men if you don't want us to be.

If you want to just pay me $16 a month to be a good IDE and inspector, I love that. That's the value I think we provide to you. We cannot control whatever manipulation of token prices occurs with other providers. All we can do is give you enough context for your prompts that you don't need the latest bleeding edge models to make edits to your react code with confidence. We aren't an AI company, we are a devtool that helps with prompting.

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anonzzzies 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Why per month though? What happened to installable products where you pay for a version and then you use that version. How is this a service?

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jsunderland323 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think I'm really the best person to defend the practice of recurring revenue but I would rather be transparent that we collect a monthly fee for some features than vanity launch as a one time fee product to hacker news only to pull the rug on my customers a year later.

To be clear, we are not charging you for up to 10 prompts a day with flash or any of our IDE or inspector stuff. We respect your offline privacy and never upload anything that you don't explicitly ask us to use. We open sourced the dev server so that other folks can build JSX inspectors to keep us in check.

> What happened to installable products where you pay for a version and then you use that version.

We're a two person company with a lot of bugs and important IDE features that still need to be built out. You want auto-version updates right now. When we are in a more stable place development-wise I would love to put out a hard cut that folks can pin to.

	▲	anonzzzies 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks, that makes sense.