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+ On Twitter, Bracky would already be costing $5,000 per month to do our current volume… and we have a restricted whitelist to a few thousand people and only are supporting one sport at a time!

+ The tier we will need rather soon is $42,000 per month. (Jfc)

It’s pretty clear that startups should build Agents on FC to prove that they are worth funding to expand their Agents outside of FC. (Or, in the longer future, maybe startups just stay here forever :)

We ran /imgn’s agent stack on X, and shut it down after 3 months of paying for their pro tier.

Absolute trainwreck of a service.

$5k a month but the limits are per-minute. Big burst of activity? Tough cookies, space out your requests like you’re hitting a free API hosted on an aging VPS, or have all your requests fail.

A lot of the API documentation on there now is outdated - broken links to old twitter urls, or dead endpoints. Development was a shitshow of trial and error.

When finally live, and with Affiliate accounts (on X’s $10k/yr plan), and said accounts marked as automated, they got constantly shadowbanned.

The only way to lift the ban was to log in and solve a captcha.

*a captcha for a $10k/yr plan on a $5k/mo API for an account marked as AUTOMATED*

Sometimes they’d demand email verification too - the email would never be sent, leaving bots offline for days until their mailserver finally starts responding again.

Never again. $25k lesson learned.

We’re rebuilding it for farcaster.

e/acc || Building @ /imgn || Dogecoin core dev 2013/14

ngl apart from the cost to us, this was embarrassing and reflected negatively on our own product as a knock-on effect of X's bullshit policies.