Your AI app costs $12/mo now. At 10k users? That's $12,000.
One prompt in Claude Code fixes this before you're bleeding cash:
"Estimate what this app will cost to run.
1. Read the code and list every paid service: hosting, database, storage, email, AI APIs
2. Find every AI model call, estimate tokens per call and calls per user
3. Show my monthly bill at 100, 1k and 10k users, line by line
4. Point out the line that blows up first
5. Fix it: add caching, use cheaper models for easy tasks, set per-user limits so one user can't drain my account"
Find the expensive line before your users do.
Most devs ship without checking unit economics. One whale user spamming GPT-4 calls = your entire runway gone in a week.
Cache aggressively. Route simple queries to cheaper models. Cap usage per user.
Don't let your infra costs scale faster than revenue.
One prompt in Claude Code fixes this before you're bleeding cash:
"Estimate what this app will cost to run.
1. Read the code and list every paid service: hosting, database, storage, email, AI APIs
2. Find every AI model call, estimate tokens per call and calls per user
3. Show my monthly bill at 100, 1k and 10k users, line by line
4. Point out the line that blows up first
5. Fix it: add caching, use cheaper models for easy tasks, set per-user limits so one user can't drain my account"
Find the expensive line before your users do.
Most devs ship without checking unit economics. One whale user spamming GPT-4 calls = your entire runway gone in a week.
Cache aggressively. Route simple queries to cheaper models. Cap usage per user.
Don't let your infra costs scale faster than revenue.