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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @endothermicdev 28 Jan \ on: Maple: Private AI for Work and Personal Use tech
This looks great! Why does it cost more to pay in bitcoin though?
The bitcoin plan is priced yearly, and the monthly plan amount is showing a discount of 50% for just 3 months.
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Lightning invoices are really simple to pay though. Why would that method of payment make it more desirable to commit to a year as opposed to a month/day or even a metered number of response tokens?
Lightning payments should enable less friction than credit card payments, not add more, right? (Sorry, not trying to be an ass, just trying to understand if there's a pain point I'm missing here - maybe we can do something about it.)
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I agree, LN is perfect for a "pay for what you use" Model... Paying for the whole year in bitcoin seems... Yeah, not optimal.
Have you tried https://venice.io?
I like https://brave.search for private inquiries. But still using https://poe.com for work stuff, because the prompt bots I make give me a lot of utility
Just added a new AI for my "to try" bucket
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Completely understand, though there's a completely free plan for 10 chats a week. For just one-offs and casual usage, just use it for free. No need to worry about micropayments. If it's of value to you and you use it a lot, I think that's when it makes sense for a subscription.
Completely understand not wanting to pay for a whole year though but when Zaprite gets better tooling around email notifications and subscriptions, we'll consider it again. Just needed to launch our product without worrying about all the variety of billing complexity and endless user preferences.
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Lightning payments should enable less friction than credit card payments, not add more, right?
I disagree. I don't think anyone wants to think about payments, especially if they have to do it every single month. We'll consider it in the future once zaprite integrates at least email-based notifications/subscriptions.
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