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Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#121

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#122

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#123

Presumably they have unused compute in those hours and figure they may as well enable people to use it and get more invested into their ecosystem. What I wish Anthropic would do is be a lot more explicit about what windows apply when. Surely they have the data to say "you get X usage from hours A to B, Y usage from B to C"

or see if they can shift some end user workloads to off hours so that they aren't bogging things down during peak hours.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#124

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

You can use it w/ things like opencode. They also have their own Claude-Code-like CLI (but I find opencode to be better).

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#125

This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it

I was thinking the same, but (and correct me if I'm wrong), the timezone means this is only really useful between 11pm and 5am AEST? - EDIT: yup - I _completely_ missed the "outside" of those US hours. yay!

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#126

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

No, it's in notepad, Edge, all MS Office products, Azure, M365. But you also get to chose your model: MS, OpenAI, Anthropic.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#127

I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.

I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped. I think these token doubles are there to kick you into a abundance mindset (for want of a better term) so going back feels painful. Stop counting tokens, focus on your project and the c…

Is it possible to link/wrap several skills together? I haven't managed to get Claude to react to a reference to another skill within a skill.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#128

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

A $50-per-week Codex Pro/Claude Max plan would be perfect for solo gamedevs/open-source devs who have existing code that would benefit from an occasional review pass or subsystem experiments/brainstorming with the most powerful models, but don't need to use one for a whole month.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#129

I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.

It's faster to change user behavior then to buy and setup new hardware. I bet this is just to bleed off the their growing pains with the influx of users.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#130

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.

How would this work? How would they verify that someone is an “open source developer”?
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