2026-04-20 · today · launch day
Launch aiusage.ai is live.
Public launch of the BYOK Claude proxy. Paste a Claude key, run a one-liner, watch your Anthropic bill drop ~20×.
- live Landing page, signup, key paste, encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)
- billing First paying customer (Nick) bought a $10 starter pack
- billing Per-call credit drain — credits decrement on each proxy call proportionally to compute used
- ui Live dashboard polling — credits / runs remaining update without refresh
- ui OS toggle on the dashboard for terminal install instructions (Mac / Windows / Linux)
- infra Docker + Fly.io deploy, Neon Postgres for users & billing, Stripe for packs
2026-04-20 · earlier · pre-launch polish
UI Dashboard connect card simplified to 3 literal lines.
- Trimmed the connect card on the dashboard from a wall of instructions to three copy-paste lines
- Rewrote casual copy in Pat's voice on the connect card
- Auto-showing demo video slot — drop
demo.mp4 into /public and it appears on the dashboard automatically
2026-04-20 · earlier · infrastructure
Infra Proxy stack online.
- Anthropic-compatible endpoint — drop-in for Claude Code, the Anthropic SDK, and anything that speaks the Anthropic API
- Streaming, tool use, vision, PDF — all supported on the first cut
- Proprietary infrastructure in front of Claude reduces per-call Anthropic billing to roughly 5% of direct
- No raw keys logged. PII scrubbing server-side before any persistence
what's next · this week
On the bench.
- Team dashboards for agency accounts (multi-dev, shared balance)
- Usage history + exportable invoices
- 1-click top-up from any amount $10 → $5,000 inside the dashboard
- Public uptime page
nothing is "coming soon" — it's on the bench until it's on this page as live.