Subscription reality-check dashboard

Help indie developers verify whether an AI subscription is actually worth paying for, with real evidence

Problem

One user was surprised to see a China card option on Claude's subscription page and didn't dare try; another shared burning through an expensive 20x/5x plan almost immediately; a third complained that subscription quotas are shrinking, annual plans are not renewable, and free models must be scraped everywhere. These complaints recur, yet no one can quickly judge whether a given subscription's current policy is trustworthy.

Solution

A subscription-policy tracker and self-check panel: structured, comparable info on major AI coding/model subscriptions — available regions, payment methods, quota-shrink history, ban risk; users upload their own subscription screenshots and the system parses quota terms into a personal dashboard showing remaining quota, expiry, and whether they were downgraded.

Users

Indie developers and small teams heavily using Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc., especially outside the US.

MVP

Maintain a table of available regions and payment methods for 8-10 major subscriptions; OCR-parse screenshots for quota and expiry; generate a personal cost/remaining-quota dashboard; export calendar reminders.

Revenue

Monthly subscription for the dashboard and quota alerts, or affiliate referrals to compliant top-up channels.

Why now

Subscription policies change frequently and quota shrink is a constant community complaint, yet nobody organizes the data; an indie dev can bootstrap it with crawling plus community submissions.