> But my Wyvern development has been burning the equivalent of $87k/month of API token burn, or about 69 billion tokens in July (96% cache hits, fortunately). So I do have to worry about it. I don't care how much money you have; your spouse is not going to let you spend almost ninety thousand dollars a month on your hobby game. I didn't even bother asking.

> My solution has been to create a token tap on $200 Max accounts, which for me work out to ~30x the list-price equivalent. So in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket for my $87k "worth" of tokens. Though that number keeps growing alarmingly.

But how much does the game bring in?

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mad0 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Once you're hooked on Wyvern, you're hooked for life. I have whales that have spent thousands on it.

At minimum 4k (given by whales = min 2 whales, thousands = min 2 thosands :) ) So I'm guessing that this covers Claud accounts.

edit: taking a look at https://yegge.ai/wyvern - probably outdated - the revenue is at 5k.

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georgemcbay 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> the revenue is at 5k.

"$5K a month, at the peak, from a single devoted “whale”"

So it doesn't tell us his monthly revenue ('at the peak' doing some heavy lifting), nor necessarily the total revenue, but I guess it tells us he has made at least $5k from it overall...

...earned from a single player he charmingly referred to as a "whale" (which, yes, I know is what they are commonly called in the mobile game industry but like, usually not to their faces).

But in any case, from Yegge's OP post:

> On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques

Seems like being an AI Spiritual Leader pays well enough to keep him in tokens, at least until when/if a critical mass of people start adopting his system of stacking Claude subscriptions, in which case I imagine Anthropic will make that against their ToS.

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xnorswap 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It probably already is against their ToS, they just don't want to make an example out of anyone yet.

	▲	josh-sematic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They need him to continue evangelizing how to get a single individual to burn $87k/month so the corporations who have to actually pay usage pricing will actually make them bank :)

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EdwardDiego 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I tried playing it. It's... not going to change the world of gaming.

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