Title: Hello,<p>I&#x27;m an HN user for 5-6 years but I wanted to use an alt for this as it&#x27;s a bit sensitive.<p>Last week I created a ChatGPT clone for my city. It&#x27;s basically a laravel app hooked up to GPT3.5-turbo with a custom prompt that makes local references and talks in the way that people in my city talk.<p>It&#x27;s been a surprise hit and now I&#x27;ve had 20,000 chats coming through in one day - people where I live really seem to love it<p>The problem is that I likely can&#x27;t afford to keep hosting this. It&#x27;s cost me $50&#x2F;day for one day, and Adsense doesn&#x27;t allow &#x27;chat apps&#x27;, so I&#x27;m at a loss at how to cover the bill for this app. I&#x27;ve already optimised the prompt and reduced the number of tokens I&#x27;m sending<p>The app a joke really, but it&#x27;s a local joke that seems to be quite popular and connecting with my city. Should I try to raise donations? Is there an advertising provider I could use that would potentially cover the costs? Is there an alternative to OpenAI that is comparable to GPT-3.5 that I could self-host cheaper?<p>Any and all advice appreciated. I don&#x27;t care about profit - I just want to keep the app online so people can enjoy it.
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