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The Problem I’ve been building AI features into TheTaleTribe from the start. The AI side of things started pretty naively: I had a free Gemini API key and a hardcoded limit of 10 AI requests per user. That was it. For local dev I ran Ollama, so I could use it as much as I wanted. Simple, but obviously not something you can scale or ship. The problem is that AI features on a writing platform aren’t a one-off thing. Writers want to ask the AI for feedback on a chapter, generate a scene, brainstorm names for a character. That’s not 10 requests that’s potentially dozens per session. So the “you get 10 per day” model was dead on arrival, also not all ai requests consumed the same number of tokens. ...

I wanted to build a platform where anyone can write and read stories while being part of a community that encourages feedback and engagement. The goal was to give readers simple ways to share their opinions, vote on how the story flows, and help authors improve their work. In essence, a soical media designed specifically for writers and readers. And that’s how thetaletribe came to be. I had always wanted to write stories, even though I did not feel very confident in my English. Still, I kept writing. What held me back was not just the language, but the fear of sharing my work with others. The thought of letting people read something I wrote felt intimidating. ...