"I love building AI agents. I absolutely hate deploying and monetizing them. Am I the only one?" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #18. By UsualDistance1634, 1 score, 5 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
I love building AI agents. I absolutely hate deploying and monetizing them. Am I the only one?
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- 18
- Subreddit
- r/saas
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- UsualDistance1634
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- 1
- Comments
- 5
- Posted
- 3/25/2026, 10:22:39 PM
- Snapshot
- 3/26/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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I have like 4 solid AI agents sitting locally on my laptop right now. Writing the logic, playing with Claude/OpenAI APIs, giving them tools — it’s incredibly fun. But the moment I try to take them to production so people can actually use them (and pay for them), I want to pull my hair out. It’s a completely different job. Suddenly I’m fighting with: Long-running execution timeouts (standard serverless kills my agents mid-thought). Handling state and memory. Setting up Stripe webhooks. Building a DB just to track how many tokens a user consumed so they don't bankrupt my OpenAI account. I spend 10% of my time building the AI logic and 90% fighting infrastructure and billing. My background is DevOps, so I’m seriously thinking about just building a "Vercel for Agents" to scratch my own itch. The idea: You git push your Python/TS agent script -> You set a price (e.g., $0.50 per run) -> The platform handles the long-running compute, the state, and gives you a paywalled API...