AI API usage monitor that prevents surprise bills | Business Ideas Database · BID
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AI API usage monitor that prevents surprise bills.
A dashboard that tracks your AI API spending across OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers in real-time with alerts before you blow your budget.
THE PROBLEM, IN THEIR WORDS
“Last week I woke up to an email saying my Claude usage limit was gone. I hadn't done anything unusual — or so I thought.
After digging through the local session logs, I found the culprit: a single /loop command I had set the night before to check my open PRs every 30 minutes. I forgot about it. It ran 46 times over 26 hours, unattended, overnight, on claude-opus-4-7. Two sessions — the loop and a long analytics session I had left open — together burned through roughly $6,000 before I woke up.
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Small service businesses with 2-15 employees who handle their own billing and lose revenue to late or forgotten invoices every month. Willing to pay $20-50/mo for a tool that automates the chase.
Post a landing page in three niche subreddits and two Facebook groups, offer a 14-day free trial with onboarding call, aim for 30 beta signups in the first month to validate retention before paid ads.
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