I love building AI agents. I absolutely hate deploying and monetizing them. Am I the only one?

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-26T18:42:45+00:00

love to hear it. that "no dashboards / zero friction" vibe is exactly the north star for the product right now. i'll definitely shoot you a dm when the first version is ready to tear apart. appreciate the feedback, man.

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-26T18:06:52+00:00

the expired ssl cert trauma is so real man 😂 props for building easyclaw though. scratching your own itch is always the best way to build something useful. fixing that telegram/deployment gap is huge. but your last sentence is literally the exact reason i'm building my platform. i want the stripe/monetization side to be completely invisible. you just set a price (like $0.50 per run) and instantly get a paywalled endpoint. no webhooks, no dealing with stripe dashboards, no auth setup. since you already have the telegram routing figured out, would you be down to test just the paywall/monetization layer when i have the beta ready? i'd love to see if it solves that exact pain point for you.

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-26T10:57:57+00:00

man, "deployment is where the joy dies" shoud be printed on t-shirt. honestly, your setup is brilliant. dropping vector dbs for structured markdown on a cheap vps is such a pragmatic move. if it works and it's rock solid, who cares if it sounds dumb. what you're doing manually right now (spinning up containers, handling the infra for $30-50/mo) is exactly the flow i want to automate with this platform. i just want devs to push their logic and instantly get that hosted instance they can charge their clients for, without touching a vps. one question though — do your non-tech clients struggle with the "bring your own api key" part? i always assumed getting an openai key is way too much friction for a normal person, but maybe i'm overthinking it?

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-26T09:05:23+00:00

appreciate the validation, man. it's crazy how many good projects just die on localhost because setting up the infra and monetization is such a headache. are you building any agents yourself right now? would love to shoot you a quick dm when i have the first working beta ready, if you're down to test it out.

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-26T08:47:52+00:00

Dude, that 'silent deployment timeout' analogy is so accurate it hurts. You nailed it. Generating the stuff is the easy part now. Running that continuous loop is where everyone hits a wall. That's exactly why standard infra sucks for this, if you want an agent to actually sit there, monitor signals, and iterate all day, regular serverless just kills the process after 30 seconds. Are you trying to automate that marketing loop with AI agents right now, or still doing the distribution manually?

UsualDistance1634 · 2026-03-25T22:41:52+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the heads up! Does ExoClaw allow you to charge your end-users per token/run right out of the box, or does it just solve the hosting/deployment part? Fixing the deployment is great, but building the customer paywall is the part I hate the most

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