A paid ChatGPT clone, billing and all

Not the chat window. The business around it. Accounts, a subscription, and the gate between a visitor and a paying user, built and running seven weeks after ChatGPT shipped.

The chat part was the easy part even then. What takes work is everything a product needs around a model: who is allowed in, what they pay, and what happens when they stop paying. This is two and a half minutes of that wiring.

Recorded January 18, 2023.