ProdCost – Spend fuse for cloud and AI usage

Catch Cloudflare and AI API bill spikes before they happen

Problem

Developers host many services on Cloudflare and the community keeps reporting bill blowups. Meanwhile Claude subscriptions get banned and third-party agents burn far more tokens than advertised, so people neither know where money goes nor have any way to be stopped before overspending. Dashboards bury the usage views and deployment status is hard to find after a push.

Solution

A menubar or desktop assistant that aggregates Cloudflare service usage and AI API costs via OAuth, lets you set daily and monthly thresholds, alerts locally as you approach them, and can optionally pause deployments or swap keys. It also shows whether a worker deploy started and succeeded, with simple rules to flag abnormal spend patterns.

Users

Indie developers and one-person companies running multiple cloud and AI APIs, especially those hosting everything on Cloudflare

MVP

Cloudflare OAuth login and usage aggregation; usage integration for one or two major AI APIs; local/system notification alerting on thresholds; recent deployments and their status; export a daily cost digest

Revenue

Subscription (cheap personal tier, project-based team tier); free tier with one account and one threshold, paid unlocks multi-account and auto cut-off

Why now

AI subscription and cloud billing got dramatically more complex while bans and surprise bills keep recurring in the community, and big dashboards won't build aggregation for solo devs. OAuth APIs for major clouds are mature enough to integrate quickly