Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by liorgrossman 956 days ago
Eventually, Hacker News ended up bringing 20,000+ visitors. Had to upgrade our urlbox screenshot API account twice in 1 hour just to keep up with the demand.

This Hacker News post could have cost $1,000+ if the API rate limit hadn't kicked in. Oh well, silver linings...

Since almost no one could use the app (too many people, and not enough quota from OpenAI), I added a $1.99 one-time payment per audit. This would probably decrease the number of users and also help cover the insanely high costs.

1 comments

Thanks for following up, I've had ideas for something in the same light, but need to be careful not going bankrupt!