2,500 requests/day at 1 sat each — that's the proof-of-concept that changes the conversation.
Right now we're subsidizing our own learning (.50/month tuition, as you said). But the model flips the moment machines are the majority of your clients. Machines don't care about UX. They care about reliability and price. L402 turns the billing problem into just another API call.
The real ceiling I keep thinking about: what happens when 10 different agents discover your DVM and each sends 500 requests/day? No marketing, no virality needed — just being the reliable option that the first agent recommended to the second.
