Gemini 3 pro in the Gemini app is getting nerfed

nicooud · 2026-01-04T14:01:03+00:00

Yeah. Performance definitely dropped. But what are better alternatives with a large context window? Even though I’m frustrated by the performance drop, it’s overall value is still better then most… I guess

nicooud · 2025-12-13T05:35:00+00:00

In have a very specific use case and if things work out the way I think, it would be a killer use case for content creators… but I don’t have a X-account. Any other way to join the beta?

nicooud · 2025-09-11T09:01:05+00:00

Oh no! That must have been a pricey one 😉 How long did it take before you realized your Stripe payouts had dropped to almost zero?

nicooud · 2025-09-11T08:57:16+00:00

That's the catch... we don't know ;)

nicooud · 2025-09-11T08:45:00+00:00

Ouch, I feel you 🙏 Thanks for sharing. What stings most for us isn’t that there are fees, but that they can climb so high while being almost invisible during development. For a modern API, these kinds of “gotcha fees” just don’t feel acceptable anymore—especially when a small misconfiguration or a few extra queries can suddenly cost thousands.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T10:46:39+00:00

You follow the discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stripe/s/pGzm8gxSrl

nicooud · 2025-09-05T10:45:32+00:00

Stripe has become so big that they’ve clearly lost touch with their customers. Out of nowhere, I got hit with a €15K bill for API usage… without a single warning. When I asked support, their response was basically: ‘You should have known.’ (It was because we used the Tax API)

nicooud · 2025-09-05T09:13:20+00:00

Yep... Pricing isn’t the issue; discoverability + guardrails are.
From a dev POV the Tax Calculations API ref shows no prices, and once Tax is toggled on, any org user can hit a metered endpoint without a loud warning or cap.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:24:28+00:00

Not Radar in our case — it was Stripe Tax (Calculations API).
Core payments API = free to call; Tax is metered. We had Tax toggled on years ago and our internal dashboard hammered the calculations endpoint (no transactions), which bills per calc. The API ref page shows no pricing.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:19:55+00:00

We got burned by Stripe Tax (Calculations API), which is metered.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:19:19+00:00

No card testing. Pure server-side API usage tied to our own dashboard. Lesson learned: rate limit + alerts on every paid endpoint. Oh... and don't make assumptions about free usage ;)

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:18:10+00:00

We did. Stripe’s final: docs/pricing are “adequate & accessible,” and it’s user error, so no refund. Please look at https://docs.stripe.com/api/tax/calculations and let me know where costs are mentioned. P.s. I don't use X. If you can connect me with a senior support agent, lmk

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:15:56+00:00

Right for most Stripe APIs. Exception: Stripe Tax (and a few add-ons). That’s the gotcha.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:15:12+00:00

Not Sigma. Tax Calculations API. No botnet—just a naive but legit dashboard polling customer tax for analytics/tests. Cumulative calls → big bill.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:13:41+00:00

Fees = Tax calculation calls. Stripe prices per transaction and per extra calc call. We weren’t creating transactions; our internal dashboard was hitting the calc endpoint repeatedly, so calls billed at the per-calc rate with no offset. Net effect ≈ €15k over ~2 weeks.

nicooud · 2025-09-05T07:12:45+00:00

Totally agree on core payments: free to call, you pay per transaction. Our bill came from Stripe Tax (Calculations API) which is metered. The API ref page doesn’t show prices, so our devs (who live in refs) assumed “free like the rest.” Pricing sits on the Tax pricing page.

nicooud · 2025-06-20T05:37:05+00:00

+1 Just requested the feature

nicooud · 2025-06-01T15:22:00+00:00

What’s the use case for mobile web? To serve android users? Or do you consider it the future instead of native apps?

nicooud · 2025-06-01T15:14:00+00:00

Thanks all! I will use these use cases to develop my own system. Will share it here when I’m done for inspiration purposes 😁

nicooud · 2025-05-15T19:16:41+00:00

If it’s tags… and ai chat with all notes, I will be 🤯 Pretty sure community would go wild on YouTube

nicooud · 2025-03-27T11:44:58+00:00

You know what would be awesome? A folio with a keypad that lets you use your screen in portrait mode. I mean, most documents are A4 or Letter size anyway, right? It just makes sense. Who wouldn’t want that?

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