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End the Meter: Why Owning Your Code Beats the Subscription Credit Spiral
Lovable just made it cheap to discover what an app should be. v0 typed a dashboard into existence in the time it took to think about a dashboard. Bolt scaffolded a SaaS shell while the README was still warm. The minutes-to-working-prototype barrier fell off a cliff somewhere in 2024 and it hasn't come back.
Use these. They earned their spot on the shelf. The thing I want to put under the microscope today is what happens when the demo turns into a real product and the meter is no longer rounding to zero.
This is an excerpt. Read the full post at otf-kit.dev/blog/token-cost-spiral-flat-repo — full-stack kits your AI coding agent can actually ship to production. Browse the kits →
OTF SaaS Dashboard Kit
Ship the product, not the setup.
- 11 production screens — auth, billing, team, analytics, settings
- Real database, payments, and login — all wired on day 1
- AI configs pre-tuned so your agent extends instead of regenerates