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>> If I have half a million people come play my silly AI game that I have no wish to monetise - I am gonna be POOR very fast.

But the article says:

  When someone uses your Claude-powered app:

  They authenticate with their existing Claude account
  Their API usage counts against their subscription, not yours
  You pay nothing for their usage
  No one needs to manage API keys

So how would that impact you?

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That’s exactly my point, like now it wouldn’t, previously it would.

Yep. Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out how can I make something that people would want to pay for, and how can I charge them, if they’re going to interact directly with Claude and burn their own quota.

anthro needs to let the creator charge % on top of their usage quota or give points/money to the creator to fix up the incentives here

That's a really good idea! That would handle micropayments that nobody would even bother with (to pay, to process, to receive, ...).

Could even have users select the payment %age or have it set by the contract tier between the app creator and the user (10% for simple user, 20% for pro access with other features, 40% enterprise,...).

Yes I agree strongly, if I could just make a small percentage for my mildly interesting LLM wrapper it would be perfect! @anthropic please implement this

That's what I've been preaching, too. The provider that does it, will win the game.

That's still no good. The only real way it could work is by having models running locally with WASM.

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