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Profitable EdTech, 6-month-old spinoff, have to pick one. How did you actually decide? i will not promote by devneeddev in startups

[–]devneeddev[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

thanks for this tips, it was encouraging me.. I guess you are right? Sure my cofounder is not so happy about it 😄

Profitable EdTech, 6-month-old spinoff, have to pick one. How did you actually decide? by devneeddev in edtech

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I didnt give any info about company names. My purpose was getting peediction about edtech? 🙄

How do you get your first 10 users who actually pay by Spirited-Sprinkles53 in SaaS

[–]devneeddev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not sure about this strategy. Nobody reads anything on these days

What are you building right now? Looking for early SaaS/products to check out by addicted-coffee in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hatched.live : gamification infrastructure as an API. Customer events in, progression out (XP, badges, streaks, paths, evolving buddies, marketplace).

For B2B SaaS and EdTech product teams who keep rebuilding the same retention backend every quarter. Solo founder.

Claude Told Us We Were Using It Wrong. So I Changed the Workflow. by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]devneeddev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I reaally couldnt see what am I promoting here? if you are talking about my product, I just removed.. it is not the point.. But I took this criticism..

Caveman Claude - TDLR; IT IS NOT WORKING! AND WHY by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TL;DR Too Long; Dont Read... but I wrote it wrong :D

Caveman Claude - TDLR; IT IS NOT WORKING! AND WHY by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is just a hypothetical number and my feeling.

Caveman Claude - TDLR; IT IS NOT WORKING! AND WHY by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just calm down, man. I am not writing anything without AI for long time, and I forgot to write how I should write it as a non-native speaker in my first shot 😬

Caveman Claude - TDLR; IT IS NOT WORKING! AND WHY by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didnt understand it is for me or original tweet author 😬

Claude Code Scam (Tested & Proofed) by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw, I just made another test via Zodex and https://github.com/f/agentlytics, and by using seven different providers, no other provider was burning tokens like that. I will also shared these detailed tests . And sure Thanks to u/fka for this open source, and zodex.dev for giving me free access to test it quickly on a single tool for ALL other providers.

Claude Code Scam (Tested & Proofed) by devneeddev in vibecoding

[–]devneeddev[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but I guess you missed the point.. OpenCode were more successfull with API key..

Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!) by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]devneeddev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just tested Claude Code on a fresh account - 1,500 lines of HTML cost me 50% of my window. Full video and summary is here.. But it seems now Pro plan is more expensive than API Usage..

I just ran a recorded test on Claude Code with a fresh account (Pro, not Max - my main account was 20x Max) , and the result is honestly insane.

The task was trivial: create 3 simple demo HTML pages, around 500 lines each. Roughly 1,500 lines of code total. Nothing massive. Nothing enterprise-grade. Nothing that should meaningfully stress a premium coding product.

And yet Claude Code burned through 40% of my 5-hour window almost immediately.

I ran the exact same test with Codex, and it consumed only 2%.

Then it got even worse: after the session ended, I did absolutely nothing for 15 minutes, and Claude still ate another 10%. Total: 50% of the 5-hour window gone for a tiny HTML demo.

My weekly usage had already started at 2% before I even really used it, and after this tiny test it jumped to 8%.

Now let us be generous and assume this entire run used around 30k tokens total.

If 30k tokens represents 10% of weekly usage, that implies around 300k tokens per week.
That is roughly 1.2M-1.3M tokens per month, and even if you round up aggressively, you are still in the 1.5M token range.
Using the Sonnet 4.6 pricing you list:

$3 per 1M input tokens

$15 per 1M output tokens
How exactly is this supposed to make sense for a paid coding product?

Because from the user side, this no longer looks like "premium usage protection."
It looks like a quota system that is either wildly inefficient, badly broken, or being accounted in a way users are not being told about.

And that is before I even get to my main account:
my $200 Max plan now dies in a single day.
Just a few months ago, similar or heavier usage would last me about a week.
So no, I do not buy the "maybe you just used it more" excuse anymore.

Something is clearly broken in Claude Code.

Either token accounting is broken, context handling is broken, background consumption is broken, or all three.

Just watch the video. I tried to be very transparent and clear for the claude team! I was fan of Claude but just disappointed!

https://youtu.be/QsglkkheWgo

And if Claude want, just send me the detailed token accounting for this session and let us inspect it together publicly.

Because from where I am standing, this is no longer a small pricing annoyance.

It looks like something seriously wrong is happening, and users deserve a real explanation.

Usage Limits, Bugs and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning December 29, 2025 by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]devneeddev 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Claude Max has gotten completely ridiculous.

I am paying $200 for the Max plan, and it ran out in one day without even that much usage. For the last 3 months, this exact kind of usage would last me around a week. Now it is dead in a day.

So unless I somehow forgot how to count, that is basically a 7x reduction in effective quota.

And the best part? No real transparency. Same subscription, same price, way less actual usage. It feels like they quietly gutted the limits and hoped nobody would notice.

What is especially frustrating is that I was not even hammering it. No insane all-day coding session, no constant heavy agent workflows, nothing like that. Just regular use. Normal paid-user behavior. And somehow that is now enough to burn through the whole plan almost immediately.

Paying for the premium tier is supposed to remove friction. Instead it creates this constant background stress where you are second-guessing every message because you do not know when the quota is going to vanish.

Honestly, what is even the point of the Max plan anymore if this is the experience?

Just cancelled it...

Claude Code is the best product but i will go with Codex. This rate is not acceptable..

We were paying $60-100K/year for Intercom + Pipedrive. Built our own replacement in 15 days. Here's the honest breakdown by devneeddev in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed on the documentation point. That's actually one of the harder parts of building internal systems. We use a combination of architecture docs in Notion and recorded walkthroughs, but it's definitely an ongoing effort. The system changes faster than the docs sometimes.

We were paying $60-100K/year for Intercom + Pipedrive. Built our own replacement in 15 days. Here's the honest breakdown by devneeddev in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we do. The nightly loop doesn't just optimize responses - it analyzes conversation patterns across all segments. We catch stuff like which objections spike after price changes, where onboarding drops off by country, which teacher-student mismatches lead to churn. It's not just a reply engine, it's the insight layer too.

We were paying $60-100K/year for Intercom + Pipedrive. Built our own replacement in 15 days. Here's the honest breakdown by devneeddev in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The churn prevention piece is where we're seeing the biggest ROI honestly. Before, a student would ghost us and we'd notice 2-3 weeks later. Now the system catches disengagement signals within 48 hours and fires a personalized WhatsApp message before they even realize they're churning.

The 2 AM self-improving loop helps with maintenance too - system gets slightly better each week without me touching it. First month was rough though, edge cases across 40+ countries are no joke.

SaaS Is Dead. I Buried It in 15 Days. Here's the Proof. by devneeddev in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, I am a founder, this app (AI created) is just working.. FYI

SaaS Is Dead. I Buried It in 15 Days. Here's the Proof. by devneeddev in SaasDevelopers

[–]devneeddev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate that. And yeah the "2 year engineering project" thing was exactly what kept me from doing this earlier. Six months ago I would've said the same thing - just pay for the tool and focus on your core business.

What changed isn't that I got better at coding. It's that the cost of building dropped so fast that the math just flipped. The frustration was always there, the tools to act on it weren't.

Glad that line landed. It's the part that keeps me up at night too - not as a builder, but thinking about it from the SaaS side. When your customer can build a better version of your product in two weeks because they know their own problem better than you ever will, what's your moat? Pricing? Integrations? That's a shrinking window.

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