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> Why do you need to monetise? Some people, myself included, are trying to earn a living creating software that helps people in some way. Just like any other p
by purple-leafy 2y ago
> Why do you need to monetise?
Some people, myself included, are trying to earn a living creating software that helps people in some way. Just like any other physical or digital service, it’s fair to charge for a useful tool
> I don’t understand BYOx use case for monetised product
In my case, BYO keys turns out way cheaper for the end user. For instance my tool calls an LLM API. If I were to host the keys myself, I’d be charged $X for Y calls.
By getting the user to bring their own key, in my case the user easily fits into the free tier of the LLM (Gemini in my case) so the product costs me $0 to run, and I just charge a small service fee for me having created the product.
This allows me to keep building useful tools, some free (7 of 8 projects so far) and some paid (1 of 8)