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IMGN Labs / imgnAI

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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A lot of the API documentation on there now is outdated - broken links to old twitter urls, or dead endpoints.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

Barcelona based developer. I enjoy comics, gaming and sci-fi

On the other side of spectrum people like thirdweb make a pretty transparent and sweet DX. All integrations I made with it has been a breeze. Same with neynar. Feels like it will set final days for x. You can’t obliterate devs and hope them to build just to please PMs

Man, I’m around long enough to have had to work on some real messy and archaic systems 

But what X has going on is just on a whole other level. To be brazen enough and ask for that level of cash and provide that kinda service in return, it’s truly wild