I am building a SaaS, but the main issue I am facing is it's not cost efficient, and I might not be generating profit. Currently, the brain it's using is Claude. I want help on what options do I have to make it more cost efficient. It's an organization management SaaS, and will work on multiple-tenants. So, If any of them used it excessive it will ruin the cost. Can any body help me with this?

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I just made this site where you can drop a review for landlords in Asia. If I'm being real, I made this site because it's so damn hard to know if you can trust a landlord or not. But with this site you can drop a review of a company/person you rented from. Then moving forward somebody else will be able to search up that company and read the reviews about them. The goal, avoid scammers and just make it easier to rent :) I hope some of y'all find it useful! And right now you can only add in countries from Asia, but I'll probably add more countries later. Cheers! The website: https://landlordcheck.io

I let AI burn through $100 by mistake. Yesterday I started creating a LinkedIn lead-gen automation. Instead of building it in n8n, I figured why not build it with Codex? So off I went, managed to build a copy of CLAY (GTM tool), and got the output I wanted. So I went ahead and told Codex, "hey, run this system on all the items." It starts running, 30 minutes passes by, another 30 minutes. 2 hours later, I start wondering "what is going on, it should not take this long to enrich the leads." So I start looking over my accounts. And lo and behold, Codex had managed to burn through my credits without producing any sort of results. So here I am now, 688 leads I need to run through again and enrich. I give up on letting AI write scripts and then having the AI run them. This is not even the first time it has happened, first time with Codex for sure. But I've tried running a similar idea with OpenRouter + Apify before. That burned through both accounts without creating any sort of results. So from here on out, I'll let the AI create the scripts for me. I'll then run the scripts myself, since that's way safer than letting an AI tool try to use the tools.

Hey everyone, I’m a student currently exploring and building with AI automation tools every day. The situation is a bit frustrating: I start building something → I get momentum → and then my free limits hit. So I end up stuck in the middle of progress almost daily. Right now I don’t have the budget for paid plans or APIs, but I’m not just casually learning — I’m seriously trying to build real automation projects and eventually turn them into something valuable. So I wanted to ask this community 👇 Has anyone here gone through this phase? 👉 How did you keep building when you had no budget?👉 Are there any ways to access free credits, trials, or developer support?👉 Any tools or approaches you’d recommend that are more beginner-friendly? I’m not looking for handouts — just guidance and direction so I can keep moving forward. If anyone’s open to sharing advice or even collaborating, I’d really appreciate it. I’ll keep sharing whatever I learn along the way