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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by carom on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:32PM (#41734673)
Their API is unusable due to rate limits. Myself and my wife have both had ideas, started using it, and found other approaches after hitting rate limits. I tried funding more money in the account to increase the rate limits and it did not work. I imagine they see poor growth there because of this.
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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by bearjaws on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:58PM (#41734921)
It's pretty trivial to get increased limits, I've used the API for a few consulting projects and got to tier 4 in a month. At that point you can burn near $200 a day and 2 million tokens per minute.

You only need 45 days to get tier 5 and if you have that many customers after 45 days you should just apply to YC lol.

Maybe you checked over a year ago, which was the wild wild West at the time, they didn't even have the tier limits.

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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by epolanski on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:00PM (#41736388)
> and if you have that many customers after 45 days you should just apply to YC lol.

What for? If someone has already a business and customers he's already far off the average YC startup.

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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by kridsdale3 on Friday October 04, 2024 @01:40PM (#41743692)
Who doesn't like free money and marketing?
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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by epolanski on Saturday October 05, 2024 @04:43AM (#41748544)
It's not free money, you give up on a sizeable amount of equity (7%) you could also sell for more than half a million.

It depends really on the business and what not.

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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by byearthithatius on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:46PM (#41734812)
You need to use it for some time to get into their higher tiers of usage. I used to also have this problem and it annoyed me greatly, but once I got to usage tier 4 it never happened again (except for o1-preview but that just wastes tokens IMO).
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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by cryptoz on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:50PM (#41737634)
150,000,000 tokens per minute and 30,000 requests per minute is unusable?! Maybe that’s just Tier 5 but the API is most definitely not unusable.

I’m firmly in the camp that their rate limits are entirely reasonable.

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