I made a system to abolish subscriptions

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14 points·JonanJ··9 comments

Very cool! I think about subscription overload pretty frequently, and how something like this could line up with the news industry.

I haven’t seen a product in a while, but I feel like libraries offering news access is about as close as there’s been to a successful product in subscription consolidation.

The news industry could 100% do better. They're literally the ONLY industry that offers 90% off to everyone for a whole year...but seems to not see a problem with that. I made a post about it here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sjunwikul_what-this-roman-emp...

Not only that, but subscriptions are going to kill startups.

33% of consumers wont get a new subscription unless they cancel an existing one.

Literally the definition of a zero-sum game as this number is increasing, but the new apps that come into market every single day are defaulting to subscriptions...

How do you solve the access control part? Did you build the layer ontop or more like a auth redirect?

Using OAuth2.0 standard for authentication & authorization then using the access token from that to call our APIs to track usage!

Just from a first impression, it seems like credits replace subscription here?

The only difference then is to switch to a pay as you go rather than fixed monthly payments.

Correct, but the credits can be spent on any apps in our network and there's no expiration on it.

Openrouter but for humans. Neat. What is "Janus" btw... never heard of it.

Thanks! JANUS is one of our partners, it's an all-in-one AI chatbot that's cyberpunk themed.

Where's the full list of accessible apps?

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