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I need answers

I have two questions I’ve been sitting with and I want to hear from people who’ve figured this out.

Question 1: Claude Code vs Claude API cost

If I build an app in Claude Code, complete with a frontend and a real workflow, and I want other people to use that product (not Claude Code itself), how do I handle the cost side?

The goal is to let users interact with the product without me eating API costs on every request. Is there a clean way to do this while still leveraging a Claude subscription, or is the API bill just unavoidable once you’re serving users?

Question 2: Automating Claude Code

I come from n8n. I know how to chain workflows, handle webhooks, trigger automations. But Claude Code with ICM is a different kind of powerful, especially for handling larger data volumes, which is one of n8n’s real limitations.

What I want to understand is: how do people actually automate Claude Code? Not just run it manually, but set it up so it’s doing work on a schedule or in response to triggers, the same way you’d build a workflow in n8n.

If you’ve done either of these, drop it in the comments. I’d rather learn from someone who’s already made the mistake.

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