spent the whole weekend trying to get a link-in-bio builder working with some basic ai features, nothing crazy, just smart bio suggestions and a little copy assistant, and the api key situation is probably the most annoying part of this whole stack every model is its own account, its own billing, its own rate limit logic, its own way of throwing errors, and by sunday afternoon i had like six different env variables just for ai stuff, which is sorta insane when the actual feature is maybe 200 lines of code. the routing between them is kinda a mess too, because the client might want to swap models later and right now that would mean touching three different files the analytics side of the builder is mostly done, click tracking, referral source, device breakdown, nothing novel but it works. the ai layer is where i keep losing hours still figuring out whether to just pick one model and commit, or build a thin abstraction layer now before this gets any more tangled. probably the abstraction, but that is another half day i did not budget for.
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spent the whole weekend trying to get a link-in-bio builder working with some basic ai features, nothing crazy, just smart bio suggestions and a little copy assistant, and the api key situation is probably the most annoying part of this whole stack every model is its own account, its own billing, its own rate limit logic, its own way of throwing errors, and by sunday afternoon i had like six different env variables just for ai stuff, which is sorta insane when the actual feature is maybe 200 lines of code. the routing between them is kinda a mess too, because the client might want to swap models later and right now that would mean touching three different files the analytics side of the builder is mostly done, click tracking, referral source, device breakdown, nothing novel but it works. the ai layer is where i keep losing hours still figuring out whether to just pick one model and commit, or build a thin abstraction layer now before this gets any more tangled. probably the abstraction, but that is another half day i did not budget for.