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Finally! We have added GPT 5 and Opus 4.1. We have also made GPT 5 our default model, but you can always go back to 4o if you'd like.

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I'm going to start writing about the different personas in Snowgoose, because as I use it myself more, it has quickly become the most indispensable part of the service for me.

Here is my post on the Brainstormer persona:

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I decided to downgrade my unlimited I'm-the-founder-so-I-get-everything-for-free account on Snowgoose to a normal, paid subscription and it made me change the entire business model. Highly recommended if you have your own SaaS.

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The Snowgoose pricing model has been changed. Now, credits roll over for a year and one-time purchase of credits are available for those not wanting to commit to a subscription. This fixes the biggest complaint we've heard about our pricing model.

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Some big new features added to Snowgoose:

- Web Search for OpenAI models
- Inline Image Generation for OpenAI models
- Streaming (finally) for all models
- Unused credits now roll over
- New one-time credit packs that also roll over

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We are in the very beginning stages of preparing our Product Hunt launch. Anyone have any tips or advice? #indiehackers #buildinpublic

Snowgoose appears to be functional again as our cloud service providers have mitigated the issue. We will keep an eye on the error logs and response times.

AWS too, it seems?

Snowgoose is down due to a major outage from several of our backend providers. Looks like a pretty significant outage.

Supabase has been really good so far. It’s nice having auth, db and storage all in one location and all on one bill. Maybe not as cost effective at scale for for a small app like Snowgoose, it’s perfect.

We passed the 100 users mark this weekend (110 to be exact). Thank you for everyone who checked us out. It's so exciting to see people actually use the app. I use it daily and really like it, so it's validating seeing others also finding it useful.

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I wake up every morning and log into Google Cloud Console to check if I’ve gone bankrupt

Gemini 2.5 Pro 👍

Gemini’s API & SDKs ✋

Google Cloud Billing 😫

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No, but wasn’t “Endless Mr. Beast Spam” one of the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno?

Yes! It was the most simple part of our setup. It has been rock solid as well

Great for personal things and small utilities. I don’t see how anyone can ship something in production with it. I use AI (cline!) a lot to supplement my coding but generally have to go back and refactor a lot of what it does. Also, it can get expensive quickly!

This is a good time to give a shoutout to @openrouter.bsky.social . We connect directly to the big AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), but OpenRouter gives us the chance to quickly get out more esoteric models like Qwen3 and DeepSeek to our users. Great service!

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Snowgoose now supports the newly released Qwen3 235B A22B (gotta love these names). This model is available for both our free and paid users!

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We have been testing out hosting MCP servers in our app (hosted by @fly.io) and so far it has been working rock solid.

This is my choice. They seem to match my views on AI: cool technology that has a ton of uses and more than a few risks. Also, did you know that Casey’s boyfriend works at Anthropic?

2 users in my first 20 signups experienced a race condition that prevented their accounts from being initialized. It never came up in beta testing but showed up in prod. Fixed that day, but those users never tried to log back in.

I'm digging Qwen3 235B A22B so far (the name just rolls off the tongue too), but like you, I still need to put it through its paces.

This got me thinking that I really need to create some personal benchmarks.

Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model Alibaba’s Qwen team released the hotly anticipated Qwen 3 model family today. The Qwen models are already some of the best open weight models—Apache 2.0 licensed and with a variety …

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A snow goose walking through the snow, wearing a t-shirt with the Snowgoose app logo on it.

In celebration, here is a very disturbing image of a snow goose wearing a Snowgoose t-shirt. Cursed image for sure. AI is weird.

Build!

But also... Take a rest. 😴

You'll work much more efficiently and faster with proper rest.

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I've been waiting to show off this one. OpenAI released the API for their new image generation model last week and Snowgoose now supports it for our paid subscribers.

It supports normal text-to-image and editing via uploading an image.

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I love both. Snowgoose is NextJS but it’s docs site and my personal blog are Astro. I would say Astro for anything static, marketing, blog. NextJS is there is actual app logic needed.

Brat summer forever!

I switched my app from Postgres to Supabase mid-development and I think it was the right choice. The less devops stuff I need to worry about, the better. Supabase has been so awesome. Not a single issue.