Podbit · God Mode Podcast
Rik cancelled his $100 Claude Max subscription, this time for good, because Cursor and Codex now handle everything he needs. The irony: Anthropic's plans feel stingy in practice even while delivering record token subsidies on paper.
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At 34:40 · chapter starts 34:36
This section is the episode's most personal — a live confession of subscription fatigue. Rik traces the decision back to May 16th when he first cancelled Claude Max, and says the feeling now is permanent. Cursor running on auto feels genuinely unlimited; GPT-5.6 SOL and Luna do everything he needs; and the Anthropic models simply don't feel like upgrades. The specific irritant: Sonnet, Claude's third-best model, consuming 10% of his monthly token allowance in a single prep session for this podcast. For a plan that supposedly delivers $32,000 in API value, this is a jarring user experience. Ben adds his own data point: at roughly 65–70% through the week, he's already at 95% of his Claude credits and 100% of his Codex plan. He briefly tried downgrading from the $200 to the $100 plan two months ago; he upgraded back the next day. The $200 plan is the minimum viable subscription for anyone doing serious agentic work.
Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
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PropGPT runs on React Native with TypeScript and Python for ML, Neon for the database, RevenueCat and Superwall for monetization. LLM costs are $20/month, data APIs $100/month, and after $10K in monthly marketing spend, margins sit at roughly 50%.
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Inside SEO Bot, a single button labelled 'Boost My Domain Rating' routes users directly to Listing Bot. That one interaction converts a user of one tool into a user of two — without any marketing cost.
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