Building https://xitter.cf/t.co/0yqbDjLroa : usage billing & feature gating for SaaS and AI. Track credits, enforce limits, and control costs without building the infra.
Joined August 2026
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Looking for 5 SaaS builders to alpha test UsageGate.io.
Building with Next.js + Stripe?
Integrate it, break it, shape it.
🎁 First 5 get exclusive swag.
DM me or reply ´USAGEGATE’.
#buildinpublic #SaaS #NextJS #DevTools
🤖 Made with AI
Everyone’s building something.
But not everyone is talking about it
Drop your project below. Let’s discover what everyone’s working on🚀
I'll go first
usagegate.io/?v=2
Ask any AI coding agent to "build me a SaaS" and it suggests the same paid stack every time: hosting platform, managed database, auth, email API, newsletter tool, analytics.
~$142/mo before your first customer.
The agents aren't evil, they're biased: they learned from 10,000 tutorials that all say the same thing.
So I taught mine a different default. ShipSolo is a Claude Code skill that puts the whole stack (Postgres, auth, Stripe, email, backups, HTTPS) on one €9 server.
My landing page runs on it. Real payments, €11/mo instead of $142.
shipsolo.one/?ref=x5
If you had $1,000 to grow your project right now…
Would you spend it on:
→ Building the product
→ Marketing & distribution
→ Hiring someone to help
→ Or something completely different?
Curious what builders here would prioritize.
What would you do with the $1,000?
usagegate.io is growing 🚀
Every founder hits the same loop. You ask Cursor or Claude to build your plans and credits. It writes a ledger. Something breaks. You ask it to fix it. Something else breaks. Repeat for weeks.
There's a simpler way:
Define your plans in UsageGate (Free, Pro, whatever you sell)
Add two lines to your app
Let it handle the rest: credits, usage limits, monthly refills, upgrades and cancellations, any payment provider
No Redis. No cron jobs. No webhook bugs.
If AI can build the product in a weekend,
what are founders really competing on now?
Distribution.
Trust.
Taste.
Speed.
The product is becoming easier to build.
Getting people to care is the hard part.
AmineCh retweeted
Here are the latest top ranking launches.
September 28th–October 4th
🥇Trylle @its_xlab
🥈RedShip @aschapmann
🥉usagegate @aminecharot_
🥉E-Warmup @mehboob_h454n
Here are the latest top ranking launches.
September 21st–September 27th
🥇FetchMark
🥈APEX Versus
🥉Vuchy @Dzianis_y
I'll go first
usagegate.io/?v=2
I’ve always been data-driven and customer-driven.
For Usagegate admins, I built an intelligent dashboard to track our activities and users, with AI-powered recommendations to help us identify opportunities and improve the product.
What do you think? Would you do the same? Are you already doing something similar?
Note : We’re still looking for alpha testers who’d be interested in trying it out and sharing feedback with us. If you’re interested, I’d love to hear from you!
Building in public is weird.
You share the wins.
You share the failures.
You share what you’re learning.
But the hardest part?
Continuing to build when nobody is watching.
No likes.
No applause.
No validation.
Just you, the problem, and the decision to keep going.
That’s the part I’m documenting.
Thanks @heyyy_shoaib for the feedback.
usagegate.io/?v=2 now shows a preview when you share it.
Still looking for 3 alpha testers. Your name goes on the homepage while you use it. Comment usagegate and we’ll reach out.
Just launched usagegate.io the easiest way to manage usage limits and subscription enforcement for your SaaS.
