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7/ genuinely curious — does your cost rollup key on the agent task, or just the model? and how are you catching a runaway loop before the invoice shows up?

6/ the fix isn't exotic: task_id on every model call, log input/output/cached tokens, roll up per user + per day, alert on p95 not the mean. full write-up: llmeter.org/?utm_source=tw…

1/ "agents need control flow, not more prompts" was the big HN thread last week (588 pts). everyone read it as a reliability argument. it's also a cost argument — and almost nobody is instrumenting that half.

We're building SaaS Listener to automate the listening part. It hooks into the platforms and surfaces the "how do I fix X" posts for your specific niche. You still have to write the answer. It just finds the question. Waitlist here: saaslistener.com/?utm_source=tw…

The bottleneck isn't the work, it's the listening. You can't monitor 20 subreddits and Slack groups manually to find the exact moment someone complains about the specific problem you solve.

289 upvotes on 'how did you land your first consulting client?' — and not one person said cold email

Supabase handles the volume. ymmv but boring tech = sleep at night. open source if you want to see how it's wired: llmeter.org/?utm_source=tw…

No complex infra. just tools that work. when you're tracking millions of tokens per day across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and OpenRouter, you don't want to fight your queue system. Inngest handles the retries.

Stack for LLMeter: Next.js, Supabase, Inngest lots of folks asking about the stack behind LLMeter. tbh it's boring by design. Next.js for the dashboard. Supabase for auth and postgres. Inngest for background jobs (cost aggregation). Vercel for hosting.

Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually prompt Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No signup. No paywall. I've watched $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

7/7 Stop selling. Start listening. The best leads don't come from a cold pitch. They come from being the most helpful person in the room. It feels slower, but the quality of clients you get is 100x better. They already trust you.

6/7 This does two things: 1. You solve their immediate problem, building instant trust. 2. Everyone else in the community sees you're the person who knows about X. After 2-3 helpful interactions, the magic happens. *They* DM *you*. "Could I pay you to look at my setup?"

Solo consultant first clients = listening, not cold email 1/7 My first 5 clients for my consultancy came from 0 cold emails and 0 content marketing. All I did was listen. Here’s the playbook if you're just starting out and hate the idea of spamming DMs.