How do we want to go about pricing? Initially will have to pay for
Subscriptions
All payments and subscriptions done via stripe
- Stripe Pricing is 2.9% + 0.3c
- Stripe is best in class, but given a low subscription cost ~$5 they will be taking ~9% of revenue
API Services
We will be using the following services
- Subabase, free for foreseeable future
- Axiom, free for foreseeable future
- OpenAI
- Pricing is $0.02 for ~750 words assuming each question is generously about 50 words. ~$30/mo would get us about 25k queries.
- dust.tt, free for foreseeable future
- SerpAPI, up to 100 queries/mo free then $50/mo for 5k queries
- It might make sense for serp (gives google access to the bot) to be a "connection" that users need unless we can find a cheaper alternative. Or tbh build ourselves it just scrapes google for top 10 or so results if we wanted to scrape it we could use browserless.io/pricing which would be basically free.
- Vercel, free for foreseeable future
Hosting Costs
This is up in the air depending on how we deploy. For the start I was thinking
- Website via Vercel
- API via Vercel Edge Workers
- Telegram Bot via a scalable container runtime (likely we can get google cloud startup credits)
@ethan-stone when you get a chance if you could review, I briefly put this together to go through some of our costs and services. Basically
- are these all the services we will be using? Am I missing any?
- seems like even though we will likely need to put credit cards down for a majority of these, GCP and OpenAI will be the only primary monthly costs at the start
How do we want to go about pricing? Initially will have to pay for
Subscriptions
All payments and subscriptions done via stripe
API Services
We will be using the following services
Hosting Costs
This is up in the air depending on how we deploy. For the start I was thinking
@ethan-stone when you get a chance if you could review, I briefly put this together to go through some of our costs and services. Basically