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Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by CydeWeys »

austhrow743 wrote: post #21

There will be local businesses with fairly aggressive marketing. Tons of billboards, on buses, local newspaper, etc. Should be easy to find because they're the ones advertising everywhere. Call them up one by one and say "hey I run [project] that everyone has been using lately, would you be interested in having your business name listed as a sponsor? It'll be shown on 1/4 page loads which is currently 5000 times a da…

Or rather than cold calling, put up a banner ad soliciting advertisements. (Or both.)

Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by michaelteter »

Seems like a very low effort approach would be to create a few unobtrusive but visible ad spaces on your site, and make the ad banners say:

"## eyes see this space every day; rent this ad space. contact ..."

As for what to charge or how to structure the ad sale, do a little research or hire someone who knows that business (and give them a cut of ad revenue or some other attractive compensation).

Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by parhamn »

I'd wait to see if it tapers back down before doing anything. Spiked usage is a pretty common thing for LLM apps.

If it persists or you think it will, reach out to me at parham@bearly.ai and we'd be interested to sponsoring it or helping how we can :)

Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by [deleted] »

austhrow743 wrote: post #21

There will be local businesses with fairly aggressive marketing. Tons of billboards, on buses, local newspaper, etc. Should be easy to find because they're the ones advertising everywhere. Call them up one by one and say "hey I run [project] that everyone has been using lately, would you be interested in having your business name listed as a sponsor? It'll be shown on 1/4 page loads which is currently 5000 times a da…

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Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by irfn »

Not sure what you run this on and why its $50/day but sounds like a lot.

Convert your server cost to a pay as you go model. You are currently paying even for time when your server is idle. Containerise your app and run on something like AWS Lambda which has a pay for what you use model.

- s3 is cheap for storing your model data and as long as you are just reading that should be fine.

- AWS Lambda has 1 million free invocations per month in free tier.

- Post that you pay $0.60 per 1 million requests

- AWS stack is just an example, you can easily use GCP Cloud run or any other equivalent service.

Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by gbasin »

irfn wrote: post #88

Not sure what you run this on and why its $50/day but sounds like a lot. Convert your server cost to a pay as you go model. You are currently paying even for time when your server is idle. Containerise your app and run on something like AWS Lambda which has a pay for what you use model. - s3 is cheap for storing your model data and as long as you are just reading that should be fine. - AWS Lambda has 1 million free i…

the primary cost would be the OpenAI GPT-3.5-turbo API, which is ~ $0.002 per 1k tokens

Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

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Post by danjc »

ibizabear wrote: post #50

Thank you all for the suggestions and the incredibly generous advice as always. Yes, it's GlasgowGPT, and yes it's pretty offensive ( https://glasgowgpt.davidhewitson.co.uk ) I've decided to go with a big old banner ad for now as I think there are some local businesses who might go for it. Whatever happens, it's been a fun 2 week ride! Awrabest

Curious to know how it works out - will you comment here in a day or two?
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