Try service_tier = flex to cut costs w/o sacrificing quality because I'm getting killed on OpenAI spend #watchdog

See a ~3x cost reduction moving from Gemini 2.5 Pro to OpenAI O3 with near identical quality metrics Costs are still too high and will need to optimize further to maintain a reasonable profit margin. My AI credits have finally run out and I'm paying bills like a real business owner 😅 Now trying an experiment with the "flex" processing tier to see what latency looks like. Need to cut costs further while maintaining quality #watchdog

Swap AI models and start monitoring to see how latency and spend improves if at all #watchdog

Inspect current P99/P50 message analysis latency after 24h and it's pretty shit, let's see if the new model makes a dent when I enable it in a few minutes #watchdog

Ship message analysis latency metrics so I can see if performance improves when I switch AI models #watchdog

Add "Start a Trial" link to the sign-in page for #watchdog to match #downloadpage's login screen

Manually outbound to unhappy customer of competitor's bot and ask them to use #watchdog

Enable cold email sequence to target 15 youtubers for #watchdog's affiliate program

Add arrow to pricing discount bar to make it clear that it's a link #watchdog

Add "sign in" button because customer was confused as to how to access the dashboard and change onboarding flow to be restricted/invite only to prevent random signups who haven't filled out the onboarding form #watchdog

Ship community stats because a customer asked (he wants to use the api to render a custom dashboard for his end-customers) #watchdog

Customer support and start figuring out how to build some analytics stuff my best customer wants #watchdog

Fix landing page on iOS because Cloudflare has some crazy bug where they're using unsupported compression algorithms not supported by safari and post warning on X: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog

Blow past $500 MRR: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog #downloadpage (but mostly #watchdog)

Get interesting feedback from free tool user who wants shareable community guidelines. Maybe a SEO opportunity. #watchdog

Attempt fix for a Telegram race condition where someone deletes their own offending message before Watchdog can reply to it Used to cause an error, now Watchdog will try to send a message to the group without replying to the original if it doesnt exist #watchdog

Log and ignore received audio messages from Crisp until I have a customer that wants this (just want to stop getting paged for unknown message types for now) #watchdog

Reorder canned messages on the landing page to make the "rule violation" option show up first, because someone said they tapped the "OK" message a bunch of times wondering why the message was not getting flagged until they realized they needed to click the alert button #watchdog

Call out Google AI product manager on X because my costs are going nuts (up 500%, continuous over the last week or so without a change in workload) and support has been useless: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog

Small fix: display the "display name" of the user in telegram alerts to make things clearer because all actions are based on the display name anyway, not the username #watchdog