API credit anomaly watcher

Get alerted before your API credits vanish or your account gets locked

Problem

An HN user got an email that their Claude API was disabled for being out of credits, yet the console showed zero usage for months and support wouldn't help. Another lost access to their AWS root account despite correct passwords and TOTP. In both cases there is no alert, no timeline, and no evidence to appeal with.

Solution

A lightweight monitoring service that pulls credits, balance, and key account events via read-only APIs on a schedule, alerts you by email or Telegram on sudden drops or disablement signals, and keeps historical snapshots for appeals.

Users

Indie developers and small teams relying on multiple AI/cloud APIs, especially prepaid-credit users

MVP

Read-only polling for Anthropic, OpenAI, and AWS; daily snapshots stored locally or in the cloud; alerts on balance drops or API disablement; exportable usage timeline for appeals

Revenue

Subscription: free for one account, $5–9/mo for multiple accounts plus Telegram/webhook alerts

Why now

More people prepay AI vendors, billing disputes and account lockouts are common, and proving what happened is hard; read-only monitoring is easy for one developer to ship