The surprise AI bill problem is killing small products

The easiest way to lie to yourself as an indie builder is to look at revenue without looking at usage cost. If you are building with LLMs, your margins can look healthy right up until a real user starts hammering the product. Then the invoice shows up and suddenly your nice little side project is subsidizing somebody else's curiosity. I built TokenBar because I got tired of flying blind. The real problem is not high cost. It is invisible cost. Most small AI products do not die because the model