need to switch ReelFarm's payment method from "usage based" to "purchase credits" upfront

too many customers spending anywhere from $15-50 and not paying, i even 3 have spent $100+ but none of them are paying because 1. i messed up the original stripe flow and now they wont re-enter their card info and 2. hard to track income when the payments are based on previous usage, probably lost $500-800 because of this

expensive lesson, maybe i'm dumb idk

man who would've thought solo bootstrapping a business is stressful lol

building reel.farm and farcasterstudio.com

100% agree, costs to learn, and it's more valuable than hearing it in a podcast or reading it in a book because its more visceral and real

All of this right now is just you paying tuition.

If it helps at all almost everyone I know has burned money in similar ways like the time a coworker dropped the production login DB. It sucks in the moment but in the grand scheme what it teaches you is worth far more than it costs.

are you using a provider / api to track usage? 

else

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

are you using a provider / api to track usage? 

else https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/coding/recipes/rate-limiting

i spent $500 tuning a model that couldn’t be tuned for the use case if that helps

why not just block usage until you have a card on file?

i like what railway does. gives $5 in credit and puts card on file.

lots of teams do usage based so worth figuring out if it’s just an implementation issue.