One word dedication of Japanese people. They care very dedicated to their country. I respect this thing the most in them. They are very hardworking also.
45% is brutal if you're building on top of these models
as a bootstrapped founder. The unit economics just don't
work anymore at that price point for most indie products.
What I've been doing is running a dual-model setup —
use the cheaper/faster model for the heavy lifting where
quality variance doesn't matter much, and only route to
the expensive one when the output is customer-facing and
quality is non-negotiable. Cuts costs significantly
without the user noticing any difference.
The real risk is that pricing like this pushes smaller
builders toward open models or Chinese labs like Qwen,
which I suspect isn't what Anthropic wants long term.
The hardest question to answer honestly. Have you tried
talking to people who run live events or team standups?
That feels like your most obvious early use case — they
already have the pain and no account requirement is a
genuine advantage there. Good luck with it.
This is actually solving a real pain — I'm building on
Lovable too and the SEO situation for vibe-coded apps is
genuinely rough out of the box. Never occurred to me the
issue was at the crawler rendering layer. Going to check
this out, appreciate you building it.
Yeah the LLM dependency is the elephant in the room for
anyone serious about going full EU. But honestly there's
another layer people don't talk about — even the idea
validation stage is US-dependent now. Most founders are
just pasting their idea into ChatGPT before they build
anything. If you're truly sovereignty-conscious that's
worth factoring in too, not just the infra you deploy on.