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I got tired of $20 mo AI subscriptions, built my own pay-per-use plugin, and immediately got destroyed by free-tier abuse.

Senior dev here. I hated paying a flat $20/mo for Copilot/Cursor on weeks I barely coded. I just wanted a clean, lightning-fast DeepSeek V4.1 autocomplete and chat right in my sidebar, without all the forced "agent window" bloatware. So I built CrickCoder (a VS Code/JetBrains plugin) where you just pay the raw API cost plus a tiny margin. To get users, I offered free starting credits on my website. Huge mistake. I got 120 signups but 0 installs. People were just farming th

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痛点：AI API/IDE 插件小团队发放免费试用额度时，容易被脚本农场通过 API 刷走，导致注册转化失真和真实成本损失。

目标用户：提供免费试用/额度的 AI API 工具、IDE 插件和 SaaS 独立开发者或小团队。

证据：I hated paying a flat $20/mo for Copilot/Cursor on weeks I barely coded. I got 120 signups but 0 installs. People were just farming the credits to hit my backend via API for their own scripts on my dime. Is there a better way to offer free trials to real devs without getting farmed?

变现：做一个按用量收费的防刷试用额度管理 API + 月度 SaaS；也可卖 IDE 内认证、设备指纹和额度发放 SDK 订阅。

MVP：2 周内做一个轻量服务：VS Code/JetBrains 插件端 OAuth/设备指纹认证后才发试用额度，服务端限制 IP、设备、并发和调用频率，并接入 Stripe 计费。

竞品：Stripe Radar、Cloudflare Turnstile、Google reCAPTCHA、Firebase App Check、Clerk/Auth0 风控

摘要：一位资深开发者因不满 Copilot/Cursor 每月 20 美元订阅，做了按 API 成本加微利收费的 DeepSeek IDE 插件 CrickCoder。网站送免费额度后拿到 120 个注册但 0 个安装，额度被脚本农场通过 API 刷走；他关闭网页注册改为 IDE 内认证后才发额度。帖子暴露了 AI API/插件免费试用防刷的真实痛点。