💡 Found a very interesting setting in my OpenAI dashboard while poking around

Apparently, 1M-10M tokens per day in free usage until 2/28/2025 - but you're selling your prompts and completions to them

IMO makes sense (and cents $$$) for non-sensitive use cases

I wrote up an extensive guide on how and why you should move from Lemon Squeezy to Stripe 💳

I go over some of the crazy bugs I ran into, performance issues, and high fees 😬

This should be timely for a lot of people who are considering this kind of move:

ben-makes-stuff.beehiiv.com/p/how-and-wh...

Made another sale for watchdog.chat yesterday!

Always blows my mind when people sign up just from seeing the landing page. Thank you!

There's only 1️⃣ discount remaining before I raise the price for new customers - who wants it?

Seems like my followers on this platform have the chance of growing way faster than on X. Not sure how people are finding my profile here, but hello!

Thought it might be interesting for people to see what's running on my server

Specs:
🖥️ 2 vCPUs (arm64)
💾 4 GB RAM
💿 30 GB NVMe SSD

Services:
8️⃣ of em for watchdog.chat, atgatt.co, unblock.domains
🌎 Chrome for scraping
🚢 Vector for logs

✨ Shipped a cool new feature for Watchdog just now: AI-powered rule generation!

🤖 You can now just tell Watchdog what kind of community you run and it will generate a bunch of optimized rules tailored to your community

👇 Demo video below

Decided to make my own multiselect component for Vue + Tailwind for use with watchdog.chat

Why? A customer complained that they didn't know how to select multiple punishments with the standard HTML multiselect

This one is much easier to use, here's the link: github.com/bakatz/vue-t... ✅

I've been working on a new app for motorcyclists, launching right now: atgatt.co 🚀
🦺 Comprehensive safety data for all kinds of motorcycle gear, all in one place
⚙️ Click "Add to My Gear" to create a gear list (shareable with others!)
🤑 100% free for now

What do you think?

Ok, and am I supposed to do something with this information? 😂

LinkedIn is the GOAT when it comes to useless notifications

One of the best feelings in the world is making a sale for watchdog.chat while not even in front of a computer 🤯

I'm making much less money than I did when I had a full-time engineering job, but so far it feels so much better

I'm helping customers I actually care about vs. answering to a manager

👇 The only way to respond when the cold DMer calls you "buddy" and asks to jump on a call immediately despite never having spoken before

This must work some percentage of the time, but I'd have to imagine you also have to value your time at $0 to agree to something like this

Hello World! I'm Ben, a solo founder building profitable software businesses.

I originally hail from the USA but I've been living in Thailand for the past year or so.

Any like-minded people on 🦋? Say hello below and maybe I'll give you a follow if you seem like a cool person.