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Congrats on having a side project that is popular enough to break the bank - it's stressful to be sure, but you're a cut above the rest.

> I've already optimised the prompt and reduced the number of tokens I'm sending

Lets assume you've found, or will find, all possible technical optimizations for your AI spend on ChatGPT.

You can:

* Ask for donations

* Accept a $50/day cost for X days as a market research budget to find a monetization plan

* Have some "first 5 questions are free, next are paid (or whatever)" to rate limit cost while maybe raising revenue

* Look for a common pattern of questions to see if there's some value / insight into your users that can be used as a source of revenue

* Find a cheaper LLM that supports your needs while being serviceable

* Pull the plug because its a joke, claim credit for it, and take the learnings onto the next thing

edit: grammar & formatting




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