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chalkycrimp··on Show HN: AutoPiP – Safari extension for automatic Picture-in-Picture mode
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chalkycrimp··on Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
My gut feeling is with where we're headed we'll clear that 200 pretty quickly in production cases, so we'd be interested in bit higher volume. Our dev efforts would probably clear that 200/mo. If the flow/backend was open-source that'd be a total game changer for us as I see it as an integral part of our product.

edit: I want to add here that while ycomb companies like yourself may have VC backing, a lot of us don't and do consider 500+/mo. base price on a service that is operations-limited to be a lot. You need to decide who your target audience is, I may not be in that audience for your SAAS pricing. This seems like a service that a lot of people need, but it also stands out to me as a service that will be copied at an extravagantly lower price. We have truly entered software as a commodity when I, a non-AI engineer, can whip up something like this in a week using serverless infra and $0.0001/1k tokens with gpt-o mini.

chalkycrimp··on Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
Startup owner using AI with this need - needless to say, a real problem. I've considered DIYing an internal service for this - even if we went with you we'd probably have an intern do a quick and dirty copy, which I rarely advocate for if I can offload to SAAS. I'm sure you've put a fair bit of work into this that goes well beyond the human interaction loop, but that's really all we need. Your entry price is steep (I'm afraid to ask what an enterprise use-case looks like) and this isn't complicated to make. We don't need to productize or have all the bells and whistles - just human interaction occasionally. Any amount of competition would wipe out your pricing, so no I would not want to pay for this.