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Used up a credit pack on a demo in a week and did not ship. Switched to using my own keys, now i am juggling OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and one image model across three projects. billing alerts every monday.

The credits idea sounds nice, but I still want to understand what I paid for after the fact. own API keys can be cheaper per task, but key management becomes its own tiny operations job.

been poking at Enter Pro because AI All is basically the pitch I wanted: leading models in one workspace, one API, less API-key juggling per project. that part is appealing.

not saying the math is better. I would need real numbers before making that call. for now it mostly feels cleaner because there are fewer dashboards yelling at me, but the cost side is still fuzzy from the outside.

how do you decide between credits and own keys for a small SaaS that might never make money?

Hi everyone, I run a small online store. I've been trying to get better at sourcing and one thing that's been bugging me is most tools help you find suppliers, but they assume you already know exactly what to ask for. In my experience, half the time I don't.

I recently tried Accio Sourcing Toolkit sourcing a custom pet bed: green, M size, logo on the front. I thought I'd given it enough to work with. But before it sent anything to suppliers, it came back and told me it was missing the delivery destination. Said it needed that before it could properly frame the EXW pricing request. I hadn't even thought about that.

Once I filled it in, it packaged everything into a proper inquiry (size, color, logo customization, three quantity tiers, sample cost) and sent it to matched suppliers. Then the AI just kept going. It pushed suppliers on price across the different volumes, negotiated sample fees, asked about lead times. I wasn't in any of those conversations. At one point it came back to me with a specific question: one supplier wanted to know which logo printing method I preferred before they could finalize the quote. I answered, it passed it along, and the conversation continued.

By the time I checked in, I had quotes across multiple suppliers that had already been negotiated, not just collected. One was clearly better on price-per-unit for the volume I was planning. I picked that one and moved to sample. The whole thing from "here's what I want" to "here's who I'm going with" happened without me managing a single supplier chat. Is there anything else out there that handles the full loop like this? Curious what people are using.

i shaved my underarms yesterday and they still looked grey.

not hairy. not exactly dirty. just grey in that annoying way where the skin feels smooth but still looks like there’s hair sitting under it.

i hate it.

it’s already june, tank tops are out, and i keep doing that stupid mirror check before leaving the house. arm up, turn sideways, judge the shadow, put the tank top back, wear a big t-shirt instead.

very normal behavior.

i’ve tried a bunch of the usual stuff.

physical scrubs made everything red.

glycolic acid helped a tiny bit but also stung if i used it too often.

brightening body wash did basically nothing.

switching deodorants did nothing except make me smell weird for a week.

concealer once before a party. huge mistake. it creased and looked insane.

so now i’m wondering if this is not really a “dark underarm” problem, but more of a hair root problem. like a 5 o’clock shadow, but under my arms.

which is why i started looking at IPL.

i’m not expecting perfect influencer armpits or anything. i just want the hair to grow back slower/finer so i don’t have to shave the same irritated skin every other day and keep making the bumps worse.

i’ve been looking at a few devices before prime day because i refuse to panic-buy the first discount i see. Braun comes up a lot, but people keep describing it as hot or snappy, and my underarms already get dramatic from shaving. ulike caught my attention mostly because of the cooling window, since heat is the thing i’m worried about.

but i’m still not sure if IPL is overkill for this. if your main issue was underarm shadow after shaving, did IPL actually help? or was it more of a pigmentation/friction thing that needed something else?

also, for anyone who bought one around prime day before, are the deals usually worth waiting for, or is it mostly fake discount math?

my rented flat kitchen is tiny. thinking of renting RO, but where does all the reject water go?

previous flat had RO pipe going into sink but it leaked twice and made a mess. do rental RO installers handle this properly or just jugaad pipe daal dete hain?

any better setup for small kitchens?

not a doctor, just someone who panicked for months.

things i realised:

Dubai water may make hair rough, but it’s not always the only reason for hair fall. AC dries hair. Sweat makes scalp angry. Tight buns break front hair. Low vitamin D/ferritin can make shedding worse. Oiling dandruff scalp can backfire badly.

my current boring formula is: clean scalp, conditioner/mask for lengths, Be Bodywise hair growth serum only on scalp, microfibre towel, and no wet bun.

also if you’re using stuff like Nizoral for dandruff, don’t treat it like normal daily shampoo unless told.

what would you add to this list?