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by kstrauser 234 days ago
Oh! That's pretty reasonable. It's just that I've seen so many slick looking tools that go for waaaaaaayyyyy more than I'd ever personally consider paying for them, like "use AI to sort your CD collection for only $29.95 per month! For only a cup of coffee a day, you could have perfect sorting!"

Do you support Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)? If I'm the first to ask, I'm 100% certain I won't be the last. That a standard question we get from our own customers.
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dr-j 234 days ago
OMG that's ridiculous. I will definitely look closely at integrating BYOK. Do you have an app that uses BYOK?
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kstrauser 234 days ago
That might've been an exaggerated example, but only a little! I've seen lots of tools add AI as a feature and immediately jack their prices.

Sure, lots of apps do that. For example, Zed (https://zed.dev/docs/ai/llm-providers) has a subscription plan but alternatively will let you plug in your own key and then provide the same features free of charge.

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dr-j 234 days ago
Awesome, I'll check that out! Thanks!!
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dr-j 234 days ago
Also, I added the pricing to the home page; hopefully this reduces those warning bells! Thanks so much, I hadn't considered that that would be a barrier.
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anigbrowl 234 days ago
Should include systems requirements on the download - I got a grumpy MacOS message about needing to do an OS update to run it. It's not a big deal but little frictional hiccups like that results in invisible abandonment.
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dr-j 234 days ago
Will do. If you do update your OS and try out Dlog do send me a dm and I'll give you a perpetual license and 1 million tokens to test out Dlog.
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