Founder narrative
The month my biggest integration partner 10x'd its API price at $46K MRR: a founder diary (2026)
In 2026, one four-sentence email can undo a year of growth. A composite founder diary about the month a core integration partner raised its API price roughly 10x and gutted its free tier overnight at $46K MRR, echoing the real 2023 Reddit and Twitter/X API shocks: the triage, the customer email, and the re-architecture that cut our single-vendor dependency.
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