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by colesantiago 4 days ago
> For a limited time window, I'm setting the all-free feature flag to true.

?

Why not make this all free?

The cost of software in the age of AI has gone to zero now that anyone can vibe code your entire site, Fable or no Fable.

Why would you spend $2,300 in API tokens for something that wouldn't get any return?

The economics make no sense here?

I'm curious why do you think people would pay for your software rather than them pointing Claude at your site and recreating everything for free on a $100 subscription?

2 comments

Who are these imaginary people going to websites and just being like "I'm not spending $10 on this!! I'll just clone it with $500 worth of tokens!"
I don't think they exist, but I think there are loads who would go to this website and then leave, preferring to download free higher-quality apps instead.
Still cheaper than spending $2,300 to initially build it.

Eventually the cost will go drastically down as always.

I have some friends like this, always churning out low effort slop and trying to market it, for it to always fail and them getting depressed and trying again a month later.

I don't get it. It's like they're always excited that they found the magic infinite money glitch in the system.

I'm aware of the fact, that you can only collect money for giving value.
Value the customer parts with money for, and you have competition.