OpenCharacter update - 03.03.2025

Making good progress with the OpenCharacter. My friend told me to focus less on numbers like revenues and more on the product quality. I think he makes a good point. I need to spend more time developing the product and distribution and less time worrying about the revenue numbers.

I added a pay as you go feature for the pro users, so they can get access to all of the best models on the market. Took way too long to implement messing around with Stripe usage/meter APIs which was totally unnecessary. A much simpler solution was to simply charge the customer's card on hand and then have a table in your database that tracks usage and credits. No need to mess around with stripe usage/meter APIs.

Also added background image to the site using IndexedDB. I wanted to use cloudflare r2, but i was too lazy to setup the auth for users. and figure out privacy. Also it feels more intimate when its just stored locally. Which I think is a good thing for this audience.

As far as speed of iteration with products. I want to be faster. I struggled this week with the usage thing for a few days. Need to push harder now & more efficient now.